Ermengarde d’Anjou

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Van Eickels gives 1018.

Date of Death: 18 March 1076.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Baldwin.

Relationships

Father: Foulques III d’Anjou (died 1040).

This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:10), by Cokayne (p. 70), by Bachrach, by Bouchard (p. 19), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.

Mother: Hildegarde de Lorraine (died 1 April 1046).

This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:10) , by Bachrach, and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Geoffroy III, count of Gâtinais.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 69), by Bachrach, by van Eickels, and by Bouchard (p. 19).

Spouse: Robert I (died 18 March 1076), duke of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by Baldwin and by van Eickels.

Children (by Geoffroy):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)

Geoffroy III “le Barbu”, count of Gâtinais, count of Anjou, married Julienne, daughter of Hamelin, lord of Langeais.

Foulques IV d’Anjou married (1) Hildegard de Baugency; married (2) Ermengarde de Bourbon; married (3) Orengarde de Châtel-Aillon; married (4) a daughter of Gautier I, count of Brienne; married (5) Bertrade de Montfort.

Children (by Robert):

Hildegarde/Audearde married Guy-Geoffroy, later Guillaume VIII, duke of Aquitaine.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Bachrach, Bernard S. Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count, (University of California Press, 1993).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Ermengarde d'Anjou” in The Henry Project.

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Eickels, Karl van. Anjou genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.