Foulques IV "le Réchin" comté d’Anjou

   Another name for Foulques was Fulk "the cruel" Count of Anjou.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁰¹
Fulk IV, "Rechin," count of Anjou, married Bertrade de Montfort daughter of Simón de Monfort and Agnes d'Evrex, daughter of Richard and great granddaughter of Richard I, duke of Normandy. They were the parents of Fulk V, "the Young" King of Jerusalem and Count of Anjou.

~ Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 118:23

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Foulques de Château-Landon "The Historiæ Andegavensis names "Goffridi de Castro Landono et Ermengardis filia Fulconis Comitis Andegavensis" as parents of "Fulco comes Andegavensis" [226]. Foulques IV married, as his first wife, Hildegarde de Baugency, daughter of Lancelin II de Baugency. "The Gesta Consulum Andegavorum refers to the first wife of "Fulco Rechin" as "filiam Lancelini de Baugenciaco" [Chronica de Gesta Consulum Andegavorum, Chroniques d'Anjou, p. 140]." Hildegarde was the mother of Ermengarde. Foulques' fifth wife was Bertrade de Montfort, daughter of Simon comté de Montfort-l'Amaury and his third wife Agnès d'Evreux. "Her parentage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis [Orderic Vitalis (Chibnall), Vol. VI, Book XI, p. 167]. The Gesta Consulum Andegavorum refers to the "third (5th) wife" of "Fulco Rechin" as "sororem Amalrici de Monte Forti" [Chronica de Gesta Consulum Andegavorum, Chroniques d'Anjou, p. 140]." Bertrade de Montfort was the mother of Foulques V comté d'Anjou.

• Web Reference: Fulk IV, Count of Anjou from Wikipedia.
There is no certain translation for Foulques IV's nick name le Réchin. Orderic Vitalis did mention that Foulques was "a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits."

[Source: Orderic Vitalis (1973). Chibnall, Marjorie, ed. The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, vol. IV. London: Oxford University Press. p. 187].

Foulques married Bertrada de Montfort Countess of Anjou and, regina de France, daughter of Simon Montfort Seigneur de Montfort l'Amauri and Agnáes de d’Évreux. (Bertrada de Montfort Countess of Anjou and, regina de France was born about 1060 in Montfort-l'Amaury, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, died on 14 Feb 1117 in Fontévrault, Anjou and was buried in Hautes-Bruyères, Saint-Remy-l’Honoré, Yvelines.)

Foulques next married Hildegarde de Baugency, daughter of Lanceline II Seigneur de Baugency and Alberge.¹⁶⁰ (Hildegarde de Baugency was born about 1045 and died before 1070 ¹⁶⁰.)