Foulques V "the Young", Count
of Anjou and Maine, King of Jerusalem (1092-1144)
Born 1092
Died 13 November 1144 Acre
Married 1110
Eremburge, Comtesse de Maine
Died 1126
In 1110, Fulk V married the only daughter of H‚li, Count of Maine, thereby
ultimately uniting Anjou and Maine. In 1120 he went on pilgrimage to the
Holy Land. His wife died in 1126 and in 1128 a
delegation from Baudouin II, King of Jerusalem, arrived in France,
asking Louis VII to choose one of the French nobility to marry his daughter
M‚lisande and become heir to the throne of Jerusalem.
Fulk was chosen and married M‚lisande and in due course succeeded as
King of Jerusalem. To defend the holy city from the Muslim champion, Zengi,
Fulk allied with the Emir of Damascus and the Emperor of Constantinople
during the early 1130s. Turkish raiders took him prisoner in 1137, but
then freed him.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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