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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou abstract "Foulque III of Anjou (French: Foulques; British: "Fulk"), called Foulque Nerra ("the black"), was an early medieval Count of Anjou, and was one of the first great builders of castles. He lived from 970 to 1040, constructed an estimated 100 castles and abbeys across the Loire Valley in today’s France, fought successive wars with neighbors in Brittany, Blois, Poitou and Aquitaine and traveled four times to Jerusalem on pilgrimage during the course of his life. He had two wives and three children.He was a natural horseman and a fearsome warrior, with a keen sense of military strategy that saw him get the better of most of his opponents. He was allied with the goals and aims of the Capetians against the dissipated Carolingians of his era. With his county seat at Angers, Foulque’s bitter enemy was Eudes II of Blois, his neighbor 128 km east along the Loire River, at Tours. The two men traded towns, followers and insults throughout their lives.Foulque built his first castle at Langeais, 104 km east of Angers, on the banks of the Loire, in 992. Like many of his constructions, it began as a wooden tower, and was eventually replaced with a stone structure, fortified with exterior walls, and equipped with a thick-walled tower called a donjon in French (source of the English dungeon, which however implies a cellar, rather than a tower). He built it in the territory of Eudes I, Count of Blois, and they fought a battle over it in 994. But Eudes I died of a sudden illness, and his son and successor, Eudes II, did not manage to evict him. Foulque continued building more towers in a slow encirclement of Tours: Montbazon, Montrésor, Mirebeau, Montrichard, Loches, and even the tower of Montboyau, erected just across the Loire from Tours in 1016. He also fortified the castles at Angers, Amboise, Chateau-Gontier, Chinon, Mayenne and Semblançay, among many others. “The construction of castles for the purpose of extending a ruler’s power was part of Fulk Nerra’s strategy,” wrote Peter Fraser Purton, in A History of Medieval Siege, c. 450-1220.Foulque was also a devout Christian, and built, enlarged or endowed several abbeys and monasteries, such as the Abbey of Beaulieu-les-Loches, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Saint-Aubin, and a convent, Notre Dame de la Charité at Ronceray in Angers. Although he never learned to write, he endowed a school with revenue to provide poor students with an education. Foulque also undertook four pilgrimages to Jerusalem.".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou alias "Fulk Nerra".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou birthDate "0970".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou birthYear "0970".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou deathDate "1040-06-21".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou deathPlace Metz.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou deathYear "1040".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou parent Adele_of_Meaux.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou parent Geoffrey_I,_Count_of_Anjou.
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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Capetian_dynasty.
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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Carolingian_dynasty.
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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Category:Frankish_people.
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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Château_de_Chinon.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Château_de_Langeais.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Château_de_Loches.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Conan_I_of_Rennes.
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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Ermengarde_of_Anjou,_Duchess_of_Burgundy.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Eudes_II_of_Blois.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Faith.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Geoffrey_I,_Count_of_Anjou.
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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Plantagenet.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Metz.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Montbazon.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Montrichard.
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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLink Pilgrim.
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- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLinkText "Foulk III Nerra, Count of Anjou".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fulk 'Nerra,' Count of Anjou".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fulk III".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fulk III, Count of Anjou".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fulk the Black".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fulk".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fulke Nerra".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou after Geoffroy_II,_Count_of_Anjou.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou alternativeNames "Fulk Nerra".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou before Geoffroy_I,_Count_of_Anjou.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou birthDate "970".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou caption "Seal of Foulque III".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou dateOfBirth "970".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou dateOfDeath "1040-06-21".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou deathDate "1040-06-21".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou deathPlace Metz.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou father Geoffrey_I,_Count_of_Anjou.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou hasPhotoCollection Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou mother Adelaide_of_Vermandois.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou mother Adele_of_Meaux.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou name "Foulque III, Count of Anjou".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou nobleFamily House_of_Ingelger.
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou placeOfDeath "Metz".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou shortDescription "Count of Anjou".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou spouse "Elisabeth of Vendôme".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou spouse "Hildegarde of Sundgau".
- Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou title Count_of_Anjou.
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