Biography of Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou 1043-1109
Paternal Family Tree: Anjou aka Plantagenet
Around 1035 [his father] Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais and [his mother] Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy (age 17) were married. She by marriage Countess Gâtinais. She the daughter of Fulk "Black" Ingelger III Count Anjou (age 65) and Hildegarde Sundgau Countess Anjou. He the son of Hugh de Perche Count Gâtinais (age 46) and Béatrice de Mâcon Countess Gâtinais.
In 1043 Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou was born to Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais and Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy (age 25).
Around 1043 [his father] Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais died. His son [his brother] Geoffrey "Bearded" Anjou 3rd Count Gâtinais (age 3) succeeded 3rd Count Gâtinais.
In 1046 [his step-father] Robert I Duke Burgundy (age 35) and [his mother] Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy (age 28) were married. She by marriage Duchess Burgundy. She the daughter of Fulk "Black" Ingelger III Count Anjou and Hildegarde Sundgau Countess Anjou. He the son of Robert "Pious" II King France and Constance Arles Queen Consort France. They were second cousins.
On 01 Apr 1046 [his grandfather] Hugh de Perche Count Gâtinais (age 57) died. His son [his father] Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais succeeded 2nd Count Gâtinais.
Around 1068 Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 25) and Hildegarde Beaugency Countess Anjou (age 24) were married. She by marriage Countess Anjou. He the son of Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais and Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy (age 50).
Around 1068 [his daughter] Ermengarde Anjou Duchess Brittany and Aquitaine was born to Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 25) and [his wife] Hildegarde Beaugency Countess Anjou (age 24) at Angers [Map].
Before 1072 Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 29) and Ermengarde Bourbon Countess Anjou (age 21) were married. She by marriage Countess Anjou. He the son of Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais and Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy (age 53).
Around 1072 [his son] Geoffrey "Hammer" Anjou IV Count Anjou was born to Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 29) and [his wife] Ermengarde Bourbon Countess Anjou (age 22).
In 1076 [his wife] Ermengarde Bourbon Countess Anjou (age 26) died.
Around 1076 Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 33) and Orengarde Chatellailon Countess Anjou were married. She by marriage Countess Anjou. He the son of Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais and Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy (age 58).
On 18 Mar 1076 [his mother] Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy (age 58) died.
On 25 Sep 1087 Simon Montfort (age 62) died at Épernon. His son [his future brother-in-law] Amaury Montfort (age 31) succeeded 2nd Seigneur Montfort.
In 1088 [his son-in-law] William "Troubadour" Poitiers IX Duke Aquitaine (age 16) and [his daughter] Ermengarde Anjou Duchess Brittany and Aquitaine (age 20) were married. She by marriage Duchess Aquitaine. She the daughter of Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 45) and Hildegarde Beaugency Countess Anjou (age 44). He the son of Guy William Poitiers VIII Duke Aquitaine and Hildegarde Burgundy Duchess Aquitaine (age 32). They were half first cousins.
Around 1089 [his son] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem was born to Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 46) and [his wife] Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France (age 19) at Angers [Map].
In 1089 Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 46) and Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France (age 19) were married. She by marriage Countess Anjou. The difference in their ages was 27 years. He the son of Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais and Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy.
In 1089 [his brother-in-law] Amaury Montfort (age 33) was killed. His brother [his brother-in-law] Amaury Montfort Count Évreux (age 18) succeeded 3rd Seigneur Montfort.
On 15 May 1092 Philip "Amorous" I King France (age 39) and [his wife] Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France (age 22) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. They were married despite their both having living spouses: Bertha Gerulfing Queen Consort France (age 37) and Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 49) respectively. He the son of King Henry I of France and Anne Rurik Queen Consort France.
In 1093 [his son-in-law] Alan Canhiart IV Duke Brittany (age 30) and [his daughter] Ermengarde Anjou Duchess Brittany and Aquitaine (age 25) were married. She by marriage Duchess Brittany. She the daughter of Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 50) and Hildegarde Beaugency Countess Anjou (age 49). They were third cousin once removed.
In 1096 [his brother] Geoffrey "Bearded" Anjou 3rd Count Gâtinais (age 56) died. His brother Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 53) succeeded 4th Count Anjou.
On 23 Sep 1104 [his brother-in-law] Simon Montfort (age 36) died.
On 19 May 1106 [his son] Geoffrey "Hammer" Anjou IV Count Anjou (age 34) was killed at Candé.
On 14 Apr 1109 Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 66) died. In 1109 His son [his son] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 20) succeeded V Count Anjou.
On 14 Feb 1117 [his former wife] Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France (age 47) died.
Kings Franks: Great x 8 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Agnes La Marck Queen Consort Navarre x 1
Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem x 1
Philip "Noble" III King Navarre x 1
Joan Évreux Queen Consort France x 1
Blanche Valois Holy Roman Empress Luxemburg x 1
Blanche Dampierre Queen Consort Norway and Sweden x 1
Joan Auvergne Queen Consort France x 1
Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France x 1
Blanche Bourbon Queen Consort Castile x 1
Yolande of Bar Queen Consort Aragon x 1
Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford x 1
Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland x 1
Charlotte Savoy Queen Consort France x 1
King Richard III of England x 1
Anne Neville Queen Consort England x 1
Bianca Maria Sforza Holy Roman Empress x 1
Anne of Brittany Queen Consort France x 1
Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile x 3
Germaine Foix Queen Consort Aragon x 1
Marguerite Valois Orléans Queen Consort Navarre x 3
Queen Anne Boleyn of England x 1
Anne Jagiellon Holy Roman Empress x 2
Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England x 3
Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland x 7
Queen Catherine Howard of England x 1
Jane "Nine Days Queen" Grey I Queen England and Ireland x 1
Louise Lorraine Queen Consort France x 4
King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland x 2
Maximilian "The Great" Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria I Elector Bavaria x 5
Maria Anna Wittelsbach Holy Roman Empress x 5
Electress Louise Juliana of the Palatine Rhine x 2
Ferdinand of Spain II Holy Roman Emperor x 1
Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain x 1
Eleonora Gonzaga Queen Consort Bohemia x 2
Maria Leopoldine Habsburg Spain Queen Consort Bohemia x 1
Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal x 11
Victor Amadeus King Sardinia x 13
Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain x 3
Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor x 3
Charles Habsburg Spain VI Holy Roman Emperor x 3
Francis I Holy Roman Emperor x 4
Elisabeth Therese Lorraine Queen Consort Sardinia x 4
King George III of Great Britain and Ireland x 3
Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway x 3
Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England x 3
King Christian I of Norway and VIII of Denmark x 6
Frederick VII King Denmark x 9
Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark x 6
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom x 6
Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway x 3
Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia x 18
King Edward VII of the United Kingdom x 18
Frederick Charles I King Finland x 6
Alexandrine Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark x 9
Victoria Eugénie Mountbatten Queen Consort Spain x 18
Louise Mountbatten Queen Consort Sweden x 18
Ingrid Bernadotte Queen Consort Denmark x 18
Philip Mountbatten Duke Edinburgh x 18
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom x 185
Carl XVI King Sweden x 36
Queen Consort Camilla Shand x 79
Great x 1 Grandfather: Fulcuich Count Mortagne au Perche
GrandFather: Hugh de Perche Count Gâtinais
Great x 1 Grandmother: Melisende Viscountess Châteaudun
Father: Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais
Great x 1 Grandfather: Albéric II Count Mâcon
GrandMother: Béatrice de Mâcon Countess Gâtinais
Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ingelger Ingelger
Great x 3 Grandfather: Fulk "Red" Ingelger 1st Count Anjou
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelais Amboise
Great x 2 Grandfather: Fulk "Good" Ingelger 2nd Count Anjou
Great x 4 Grandfather: Warnerius Seigneur Loches
Great x 3 Grandmother: Roscille Loches Countess Anjou
Great x 1 Grandfather: Geoffrey "Greygown" Ingelger 1st Count Anjou
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ratburnus I Viscount of Vienne
Great x 2 Grandmother: Gerberge Unknown Viscountess Anjou
GrandFather: Fulk "Black" Ingelger III Count Anjou
Great x 4 Grandfather: Herbert Vermandois I Count Vermandois
Great x 3 Grandfather: Herbert Vermandois II Count Vermandois II Count Soissons II Count Meaux
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Vermandois Count Meaux Count Châlons
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert I King West Francia
Great x 3 Grandmother: Adela Capet Countess Vermandois, Soissons and Meaux
Great x 4 Grandmother: Aelis Unknown Queen Consort West Francia
Great x 1 Grandmother: Adele Vermandois Countess Anjou
Mother: Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy
GrandMother: Hildegarde Sundgau Countess Anjou