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Vol I File 9: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James

• 1. Ingeler (Ingelgerius), 1st Count of Anjou, 879-899, son of Tortulf (Tertulle?). He married Elendis of Ambrose. He was succeeded by his son, Fulk.

• 2. Fulk (Foulques) I, the Red (le Roux), 2nd Count of Anjou, 899-940 (or 909-942). He married Roscilla (Rosalie) of Loches. He was succeeded by his son, Fulk.

• 3. Fulk (Foulques) II, the Good (le Bon), 3rd Count of Anjou, 940-962 (or 942-960). He married Gerberga d'Arles (of Maine). She was the daughter of Geoffrey I, Vicomte of Orleans. Witness Charter of Hugh Magnus, Duke of France 939, 933-942, and sister of Aubrey, Vicomte of Orleans, whose son was Geoffrey, Count of Gatinais, whose son was Aubrey, Count of Gatinais, whose son was Geoffrey, Count of Gatinais, who married Beatrice of Macon. See below. Fulk II was succeeded by his son, Geoffrey Greygown.

• 4. Geoffrey (Geoffroi) I., Greygown (Greymantle) (Grisegonelle), 4th Count of Anjou, 962-987 (or 960-987), died July 987, married (2) Adela (Adelaide de Chalons) of Chalen-sur-Sadne (of Vermandois)., daughter of Robert, Count of Troyes, of the house of Vermandois, who died in 975/76. They had the following two children:
  
  • 1. Fulk (Foulques) III. See below.

  • 2. Ermengarde, married Conan I, Count of Betagne, ancestress of William the Conqueror. See this lineage elsewhere in Vol. I.
    

    He was succeeded by his son, Fulk.

• 5. Fulk (Foulques) III. the Black (Nerra) (le Noir), 5th Count of Anjou, 987-1040, died in 1040, married after 1000 Hildegarde, who died in April, 1046, in Jerusalem. They had a son and a daughter as follows:
  
  • 1. Geoffrey (Geoffroi) II, Martel, the successor, 6th Count of Anjou, 1040-1060. He in turn was succeeded by Geoffrey (Geoffroi) III (le Barbu), a nephew, as the 7th Count of Anjou.

  • 2. Ermengarde. See below.
    

• 6. Ermengarde of Anjou, heir of her brother, Geoffrey, married (1) Robert, Duke of Burgundy, but was separated for consanguity, and married about 1035 (2) Aubrey-Geoffrey II. of Gastinois (Gatinais), Count of Gastinois (Gatinais) (1034-1043), died before April 1, 1046, son of Geoffrey I., of Gastinois, and his wife, Beatrice Macon, daughter of Alberic (Aubrey) II., Count of Macon, who died in 974/975. They had two sons as follows:
  
  • 1. Geoffrey (Geoffroi) III (le Barbu), 7th Count of Anjou, successor to Geoffrey II, his uncle, ob.s.p. after 1096.

  • 2. Fulk (Foulques) IV. the Surly (le Rechin), successor to his brother, Geoffrey III. See below
    

• 7. Fulk (Foulques) IV. the Surly (le Rechin), 8th Count of Anjou, 1068-1109, married Bertrada Montfort, daughter of Simon I de Montfort, Seigneur of Montfort Amauri, and his wife Agnes Evereux, a descendant of the Scandanavian kings and Constantine the Great.

• 8. Fulk (Foulques) V. the Younger, born 1092, 9th Count of Anjou, 1109-1129, abdicated, and was King of Jerusalem, 1131-1142, married about 1108 (1) Ermengarde, daughter of Helias, Count of Maine, who died in 1126. Fulk V. died November 10, 1143 at Jerusalem. In Burke, pg. 88, it is reported that he was also married to Millicent ________, daughter of John, Earl of Comyn, who obtained the surname "De Burgh", from the town of which he was the governor. In the Oxford History of England (The Domesday Book and the Magna Charta), a genealogical chart shows Fulk V married June 2, 1129, (2) Melisende, daughter of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem. She died September 11, 1161. From that marriage came Baldwin the III. and Amalric I., father of Baldwin IV., and Sibyl, who married (1) William of Montferrat, and father of Baldwin V., and Married (2) Guy de Lusignan. Fulk V. and his first wife, Ermentrude had a son and a daughter as follows:
  
  • 1. Geoffrey Plantaganet. See below.

  • 2. Sibyl of Anjou, who in 1135 became the second wife of Theodore, Count of Flanders, born 1100, died 1168. They had Margaret of Flanders, died 1194, married to Baldwin V, Count of Hainault, born 1150, died 1195. See his ancestry elsewhere in Vol. I. They had Yolande of Hainault, died 1219, married Pierre (Peter) de Courtenay, son of Pierre and grandson of Louis VI., King of France. Their daughter, Yolande Courtenay, married Andrew (Andreas) II. of Hungary. Their daughter, Jolante (Violante), died 1251. In 1235 she married Jaime (James I.), King of Aragon, who was born in 1208, and died in 1276, son of Pedro II. and grandson of Afonso II. and Sancha. Jolante and Jaime had Isabella of Aragon, who married Philip III. the Bold, King of France. Philip and Isabella were parents of Philip IV., the Fair, King of France. He married Jeanne, daughter of Henry I., King of France. They had Isabella of France, who married Edward II., King of England.
    

• 9. Geoffrey (Geoffroi) IV the Fair, Plantaganet, 10th Count of Anjou, 1129-1151, Duke of Normandy, 1144-1150, married about 1127 Matilda (Maud the English Empress). daughter of King Henry I. of England and his wife, Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III, King of Scotland. Geoffrey was the original Plantaganet, so named by his companions for the broom corn he wore on his person.

• 10. Henry II, "Fitz Empress", born 1133, died July 6, 1189, Duke of Anjou, 1151-1189, Duke of Normandy, and finally, King Henry II of England. Henry II. was succeeded by his son, Richard The Lion-Hearted, and he in turn was succeeded by his brother, John, both carrying the title of Duke of Anjou, in addition to their English royalty.
  

  See the continuation of this lineage in the Line of English Kings in Volume I.

• 1. Barnard Hairyfoot, Count of Aubergne; styled Duke by 898. He had at least two children as follows:
  
  • 1. William I of Aquitaine, the Pious, Duke of Aquitaine from the House of Auvergne, 909. Was a duke by 898. Total duration 898-918.

  • 2. Adelinda. See below.
    

• 2. Adelinda, married Acfrid I., Count of Razes. They had the following two sons:
  
  • 1. William II, the Younger, Duke of Aquitaine from the House of Razes, 918-926.

  • 2. Acfrid II., Duke of Aquitaine from the Hose of Razen, 926-927.
    

There is a break in the descent at this point. The Dukedom is taken by a distant cousin of Acfrid II. The following is all in the House of Poitiers.

• 1. Ebalus the Bastard, Count of Poitou, 890-892 and from 902, Duke of Aquitaine, 927-934. He was succeeded by his son, William.

• 2. William II., Towhead, Duke of Aquitaine, 934-963. He was succeeded by his son, William.

• 3. William IV., Fierbras, Duke of Aquitaine, 963-1030, abdicated, died in 996? He was succeeded by his son, William.

• 4. William V., the Great, Duke of Aquitaine, 993-1030. He was succeeded by his son, William VI, the Fat.
  
  • 1. William VI., the Fat, Duke of Aquitaine, 1030-1038. He was succeeded by his brother, Eudes.

  • 2. Eudes, Duke of Aquitaine, 1038-1039. He was succeeded by his brother, William.

  • 3. William VII., Duke of Aquitaine, 1039-1058. He was succeeded by his brother, William.

  • 4. William VIII See below.
    

  • 5. William VIII., Duke of Aquitaine, of the House of Poitiers, 1058-1086. He was succeeded by his son, William.

  • 6. William IX., the Troubadour, born October 22, 1071, was Duke of Aquitaine, 1086-1126. He was also William VII, Count of Poitou. He married (1) Ermengarde, daughter of Fulk, Count of Anjou, but this marriage was dissolved in 1091, and a year later Ermengarde married the Duke of Brittany. William IX. married (2) Philippa (Maud) of Toulouse, born circa 1073, died Novemebr 28, 1117, widow of King Sancho Ramirez of Aragon, and daughter of William IV., Count of Toulouse, who was born in 1040 and died in 1093/1094, and his wife Emma of Mortaigne, born circa 1058, daughter of Robert, Count of Mortaigne. William IX. is credited with having written the first troubadour love poetry. See details of his life in Meade's "Eleanor of Aquitaine." In her later years Philippa retired to the Abbey of Fontevrault, where, ironically, Ermengarde, William's first wife was residing, who ended her life as a nun. Philippa died on November 28, 1118. After her death, Ermengarde tried to reinstate herself as the Duchess of Aquitaine, and have the Pope Calixtus II. excommunicate William and oust Dangereuse, his mistress, so that she, Ermengarde, might resume her rightful place. William IX. finally died on February 10, 1126/1127. The following children resulted from the second marriage:
    
    • 1. William X., the Toulousan, who succeeded his father. See below

    • 2. Agnes of Aquitaine, married as his second wife, Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1039-1056. See the continuation of this lineage in the Section on German Kings and Holy Roman Emperors in Volume I.

    • 3. Four other daughters.

    • 4. Raymond, born in Toulouse.
      

  • 7. William X., the Toulousan, born in 1099, was Duke of Aquitaine, 1126-1137. He was married, against his will according to some records, to the daughter of his father's mistress. He married in 1121 Eleanor of Chatellerault, daughter of Viscount Aimery of Chatellerault, and his wife, Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard. Dangereuse was the paramour of William IX. for many years. She died after March 1130. They had the following children:
    
    • 1. Eleanor of Aquitaine. See below.

    • 2. Aelith, but always known as Petronilla.

    • 3. William Aigret, who died in 1130, at an early age.
      

      William X. died April 9, 1137, while on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James at Santiago de Compostela in Spain. At his deathbed he, willed his lands and his daughter to the King of France, Louis VI.

  • 8. Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine, 1137-1204. She was born either in Poitiers or at the castle of Belin near Bordeaux in the year 1122. She was named after her mother, "alia-Aenor" meaning "the other Aenor." She married (1) Louis VII. Capet, son of Louis VI Capet, the Fat, King of France. They had the following female children:
    
    • 1. A stillborn infant.

    • 2. Marie Capet. She and her sister, Alix, were taken from Eleanor at the time of the divorce. Later when they both were young ladies ready for marriage they were sent to the Plantaganets for premarital training.

    • 3. Alix Capet, born 1150.
      

      This marriage ended in divorce, primarily at the instigation of Eleanor. The marriage was officially annulled on March 21, 1152. She then married on May 18, 1152 (2) Henry Plantaganet(later King Henry II. of England when King Stephen died in October 25, 1154. Henry II. was crowned December 19, 1154). He was, in the right of his wife, Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, and received Aquitaine and Poitou as Eleanor's dowry. He abdicated, later in his life, from Aquitaine and Poitou in favor of his son, Richard. See details of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine in two books referenced in the bibliography. See continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I.

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