Foulques V, count of Anjou and king of Jerusalem

Also known as le Jeune.

Count of Anjou and of Tours

Count of Maine

King of Jerusalem

Events

Date of Birth: 1092.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cokayne (p. 69) and by van Eickels.

Date of Death: 13 November 1143.

Place of Death: Acre.

The date is given by Cokayne (p. 71) and by Baldwin. The place is given by Baldwin.

Place of Burial: the Church of the Sepulchre at Jerusalem.

The place is given by Cokayne (p. 71) and by Schein.

Relationships

Father: Foulques IV d’Anjou (about 1042 - 1109).

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 69), by Keats-Rohan (p. 1105), and by Schein.

Mother: Bertrade, daughter of Simon I, lord of Montfort l’Amaury.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 69) and by Schein.

Spouse: Éremburge, daughter of Helias, seigneur de la Fleche.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 69), by Keats-Rohan (p. 245, p. 1105), and by van Eickels.

Spouse: Melisende, daughter of Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem. Married in the summer of 1129.

This relationship is given by Cokayne (p. 69), by Schein, by Keats-Rohan (p. 1105), and by Riley-Smith.

Children (by Eremburge):

(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.)

Geoffrey V d’Anjou married Matilda, the Empress.

Helias (died 1151), count of Maine, married Philippe, daughter of Rotrou, count of Perche.

Mathilde married William the Atheling, son of Henry I of England.

Sybil married (1) Guillaume “Clito”; married (2) Thierry d’Alsace, count of Flanders.

Children (by Melisende):

Baldwin III (about 1131 - 10 February 1163) married Theodora, daughter of Isaac Komnenos.

Amalric I (about 1137 - 11 July 1174) married Agnes, daughter of Josselin of Edessa; married (2) Maria, daughter of John Komnenos.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Foulques (Fulk) V” in The Henry Project.

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.

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. “King Fulk of Jerusalem and the 'Sultan of Babylon'” in Crusaders and Settlers in the Latin East (Variorum: 2008).

Schein, S. "Fulco" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).