Foulques V "le Jenn"

Abt 1092 - Abt 1143  (~ 51 years)

• Name	Foulques V "le Jenn"   [1]
  Nickname	le Jenn
  Birth	Abt 1092  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1143  [1]
  Person ID	I1252	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	29 May 2011

  
  

  Father	Foulques IV "le Rechin",   b. Abt 1043, Anjou d. Abt 1109, Anjou (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Bertrade de Montfort,   b. Abt 1070   d. 14 Feb 1117 (Age ~ 47 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1090	England   [1]
  Family ID	F333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Aremburge du Maine,   b. Abt 1026   d. 14 Jan 1126 (Age ~ 100 years)
  Children	1. Geoffroi V "the Fair" Plantagenet,   b. Abt 1113   d. Abt 1151, Chateau, Eure-et-Loire (Age ~ 38 years)
  Family ID	F332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2011

  
  

  Family 2	Melisende d'Jerusalem,   b. Abt 1105   d. 11 Sep 1161 (Age ~ 56 years)
  Family ID	F677	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2011

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Fulk "le Jeun" (the Younger) became King of Jerusalem in 1131 on the death of Baldwin II, his father-in-law by his second marriage. The Crusaders set up the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem after killing many thousands of the Arab and Jewish inhabitants of the area. At its greatest extent under Fulk "le Jeun", the Kingdom comprised most of present day Israel and part of Syria. Muslim counterattack steadily shrank the size of the crusading kingdom. In 1187, Jerusalem was retaken by by Saladin. Eventually, the last Christian stronghold at Acre surrendered in 1291 and the Crusaders departed from the Holy Land. Fulk married first circa 1108 to Erembourge (died in 1126), heiress of Maine, daughter of Helias, Seigneur de la Fl

  
  

• Sources

  [S29] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Bulkeley **main, (New Haven, Connecticut, 1933), pp82-83 (Reliability: 3).