Also known as le Réchin.
Events
Date of Birth: 1042 or 1043.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Baldwin, who notes that Foulques was aged 17 on Pentecost (14 May) 1060. Père Anselme (6:13) and Cokayne (p. 71) give 1043.
Date of Death: 14 April 1109.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by père Anselme (6:16), by Cokayne (p. 71), and by Baldwin.
Place of Burial: the Priory of l’Evière near Angers.
The place is given by Cokayne (p. 71).
Relationships
Father: Geoffroy de Château-Landon, count of Gâtinais.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:13), by Cokayne (p. 69), by Bachrach, by Bouchard (p. 19), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.
Mother: Ermengarde d’Anjou.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:13), by Cokayne (p. 69), by Bachrach, by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.
Spouse: Hildegarde de Baugency, daughter of Lancelin II de Baugency.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:14), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.
Spouse: Ermengarde de Bourbon, daugher of Archambaud IV, lord of Bourbon.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:15), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.
Spouse: Orengarde de Châtel-Aillon, daughter of Isembard de Châtel-Aillon.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:15), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.
Spouse: a daughter of Gautier I, count of Brienne.
This relationship is given by Baldwin.
Spouse: Bertrade de Montfort, daughter of Simon I, lord of Montfort.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:16), by Cokayne (p. 69), by van Eickels, and by Baldwin.
Children (by Hildegard):
(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.)
Ermengarde (died 1146) married Alain IV Fergent, duke of Brittany.
Children (by Ermengarde):
Geoffroy IV Martel (died 19 May 1106).
Children (by Bertrade):
Foulques V (died 13 November 1143), count of Anjou, king of Jerusalem, married (1) Eremburge, daughter of Helias, lord of La Fleche; married (2) Melisende, daughter of Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem.
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. “Foulques (Fulk, Fulco) IV "le Rechin"” in The Henry Project.
Bienvenu, J.-M. "Fulco IV. 'le Réchin'" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).
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.