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Fulk V of Anjou

Type Figure Region Anjou Time c. 1089–1143 Also known as King Fulk of Jerusalem

Fulk V (c. 1089–1143) was Count of Anjou (1109–1129) and King of Jerusalem (1131–1143).

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  1. c. 1089–1109Angers · AnjouBorn at Angoulême, son of Fulk IV and Ermengarde de Montfort. After his mother remarried Philip I, he maintained close ties with the Capetian court. He grew up under his father's rule from 1101–1109 and succeeded as Count of Anjou on his father's death in 1109.
  2. 1109–1120Angers · AnjouOn taking office in 1109 he immediately faced pressure from King Louis VI; between 1109 and 1110 he clashed with royal forces at Le Mans and elsewhere before reconciling. He actively expanded his lands and allied or warred with the barons of Normandy and Brittany.
  3. 1120–1143Jerusalem · Kingdom of JerusalemHe went on crusade to the Holy Land in the 1120s, passing the County of Anjou to his eldest son Geoffrey in 1129. In 1131 he succeeded Baldwin II as King of Jerusalem; in 1137 he married Eleanor of Aquitaine (daughter of William IX), consolidating Western European support, and died in a hunting accident in 1143.

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