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     (?) Ramiro II "The Monk" King of Aragon was the son of Sancho Ramirez I King of Aragon & Navarre and Félice. He married Agnes Of Poitou before 1135.¹ (?) died.¹

     He married Félice.¹ Sancho died.¹

     Félice was the daughter of Hildouin III Count of Montdidier and Alix de Roucy. She married Sancho Ramirez I King of Aragon & Navarre.¹ Félice died.¹

     died. He married Alix de Roucy.¹

     Alix died. She married Hildouin III Count of Montdidier.¹

     died. He married Agnes Of Poitou before 1134.¹

     He married Isabella of Angoulême on 10 May 1220.¹ died.

     He married Alice de Courtenay.¹ Aymer died.¹

     Alice de Courtenay was the daughter of Peter of France (Crusader) and Elizabeth de Courtenay. Alice died. She married Count Aymer "Taillifer" deValence of Angoulême.¹

     Crusader 1147, was in England in 1178. He married Elizabeth de Courtenay.¹ was born.¹ He was the son of Louis VI "the Fat" King of France (Crusader) and Adelaide of Savoy. died at Acre, Palestine.¹

     She married Peter of France (Crusader).¹ Elizabeth died.

     was born in 1081. He was the son of Philip I King of France, Count of Paris and Bertha of Holland.² Louis VI "the Fat" King of France (Crusader) married Adelaide of Savoy in 1115 at 2nd, Paris.¹ died on 1 August 1137 at Chiteau Bethizy, Paris.¹

     Adelaide of Savoy married Louis VI "the Fat" King of France (Crusader), son of Philip I King of France, Count of Paris and Bertha of Holland, in 1115 at 2nd, Paris.¹ Adelaide died.

     Alice died. She married Sir Gilbert de Clare "The Red" in 1253.¹

     was born in 1092.¹ He was the son of Fulk IV "Rechin" Count of Anjou and (?) Bertrade or Beatrice. It is true that "the father will not bear the iniquity of the son nor the son of the father". Thus it is that after the death of Fulk Rechin, his son Fulk V, count of Anjou, abandoned the ways of his mother and father and led an honourable life, ruling his territory wisely. He negotiated with Elias count of Maine in order to marry the latter's only daughter, the girl whom Martel had been going to wed, and with her hand to acquire the county of Maine. It was in this way that the counties of Maine and Anjou were recognized as united.

Fulk V was an upright and bigorous man of orthodox faith who was benevolent towards the men of God.

In the year of our Lord 1110, Fulk V had a son Geoffrey by his wife the daughter of Count Elias. the boy grew into an oustanding soldier and espoused Matilda, daughter of Henry I, king of the English and widow of the German emperor Henry V. By the same wife, Fulk had another son called Elias.

Fulk of Jerusalem
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Fulk of Anjou, king of Jerusalem (1092-1143), was the son of Fulk IV, count of Anjou, and his wife Bertrada (who ultimately deserted her husband and became the mistress of Philip I of France).

He became count of Anjou (as Fulk V) in 1109. He was originally an opponent of Henry I of England and a supporter of Louis VI of France, but in 1127 he allied with Henry when Henry arranged for his daughter Matilda to marry Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet.

Fulk visited the Holy Land in 1120, and become a close friend of the Templars. After his return he began to subsidize the Templars and also maintained two knights in the Holy Land for a year. In 1128 he was preparing to return to the East when he received an embassy from King Baldwin II of Jerusalem who had no male heir to succeed him. Baldwin arranged for Fulk to marry his daughter Melisende, which would allow Fulk to succeed Baldwin as king. Fulk accepted the offer and in 1129 he and Melisende were married, with the towns of Acre and Tyre as her dowry.

In 1131 Fulk became king of Jerusalem when Baldwin II died. The kingdom under Fulk was prosperous, and at the beginning of his reign he also acted as regent of the Principality of Antioch. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated near Barin. Fulk then allied with the vizier of Damascus, who was also threatened by Zengi, and was able to capture the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias. Fulk also strengthened the kingdom to the south. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the Crusader States. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet John in Jerusalem. Fulk died in 1143, leaving two sons who both became kings, as Baldwin III and Amalric I.

William of Tyre described Fulk as a capable soldier and politician, who defended both the kingdom and the church, reflecting the policies of his predecessors Baldwin I and Baldwin II. William felt that the major fault of Fulk's reign was his inattention to the defense of the states to the north against the invasions of Zengi, which culminated in the fall of the County of Edessa in 1143.²

He married Erembourg in 1110.¹ He married Melisende de Rethel on 2 June 1129.¹ Faulk V, King of Jerusalem
In 1128 a delegation from Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, arrived in France. The king had no son to succeed him as defender of the Holy Sepulchre, only four daughters. His messenger requested Louis VII to select from the French nobility a man suitable to marry Baldwin's eldest daughter Melisande, and in due course to succeed as king of Jerusalem.

Louis's choice was Fulk, count of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, who accordingly travelled t the East to marry in 1129.

Jerusalem was one of four Christian states that had been established in Syria some 30 years earlier, in the aftermath of the First Crusade, a giant armed pilgrimage which had resembled a vast raid, since few of the great concourse of princes, knights and humbler folk who made the journey settled in the East.

In 1096 a multidude had answered Pope Urban's call to arms in defence of Christianity. Yet although he had preached in Angers itself the rulers of the Angevins had been unmoved. Why, then, was Faulk chosen to be king of Jerusalem, and why was he prpared to quit the native land he had laboured hard to expand and consolidate?

In 1128 the count of Anjou was about 40 and had already made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. An eye-witness Archbishop William of Tyre, described him as "...a ruddy man, like David...faithful and gentle, affable and kind...a powerful prince...and very successful in ruling his own people...an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs." His main fault was an appallingly bad memory for names and faces.

The offer of a crown was too good an opportunity to be missed by a mere count, and as Archbishop William indicated, Fulk possessed all the qualifications required for the job. In addition, as a wwidower he was free to marry again, and could resign his lands confident that they were in reliable hands: his youthful but able son Geoffrey Plantagenet was knighted and betrothed to Matilda, the daughter and heiress of Henry I of England-in time he too stood to inherit a kingdom.

All inall 1128 was a good year for the house of Anjou and its spectacular advance had been achieved by astute marriages rather than by war.

Crossing the sea in 1129 with a large force, Fulk consummated his marriage wth the king's daughter and became king of Jerusalem in 1129.

After King Baldwin died, Fulk V ruled the kingdom manfully. He made the inhabitants of Damascus and Ascalon pay tribute and long before Raymond, brother of the count of Poitou, married the daughter of Bohemond of Antioch, Fulk sustained the principality of Antioch against the Turks with great effort, losing nothing. By his wife, he had two sons, Baldwin and Amaury. He himself lived to a great age and died still combative. The men of Jerusalem made Baldiwn king after him.³ Fulk V "The Young" Count of Anjou Crusade Time Line

1095     Pope Urban preaches at Clermont.
1096     March - knights begin to assemble.
     Aug - 'Peoples Crusade' reached Constantinople.
     Oct - Godfrey reaches Constantinople.
     Dec - 'Peoples Crusade' crushed by Turks at Civetot (Anatolia).
1097     April - Raymund, with main body of First Crusade reaches Constantinople.
     May - Crusaders cross Bosporus.
     June - Capture Nicaea from Seljuk.
     July - Defeat Kilij Arslan at Dorylaeum.
     Oct 21 - Begin siege of Antioch (Yagi-sian).
     Dec 31 - Bohemund defeats relief by Dekak.
1098     Feb. 9 - Bohemund defeats relief by Ridwan.
     June 3 - Bohemund takes Antioch.
     June 6 - Kerbogha, emir of Mosul, begins to besiege crusaders in Antioch.
     June 28 - Crusaders defeat Kerbogha in battle of the Orontes.
1099     Feb to May - Raymund besieges Arca.
     June - Godfrey leads crusaders to Jerusalem.
     July 15 - Godfrey takes city, held for Fatimite Egypt by Iftikhar ad-Daula.
     Aug 12 - Godfrey repels Egyptian attack at Ascalon.
1100     New Crusade begins in west.
     William IX, count of Poitiers on crusade.
     July - Godfrey dies, leaves throne to brother, Baldwin.
     Dec - Baldwin crowned king.
     Bohemund captured in battle.
     Venetian fleet at Jaffa.
1101     Great new crusading army destroyed in Asia Minor at Sivas, Aleppo and Harran.
     Genoese alliance with Baldwin I.
     Baldwin captures Arsuf and Caesarea.
1102-
1103     Eric I of Denmark died at Cyprus, en route to Holy Land. His wife, Bothilda, leads the expedition to Jaffa.
1104     Baldwin captures Acre.
     Raymund captures Byblus.
     Normans defeated at Harran.
     Byzantines capture Cilician towns.
1104-
1112     Tancred rules Antioch.
1108     Bohemund defeated at Durazzo.
1109     Raymund's successor, William, captures Tripoli.
1110     Baldwin captures Sidon with aid of Sigurd I of Norway.
     Beirut captured.
     Krak des Chevaliers begun.
     Expansion of crusader kingdom complete - Maudud at Mosul starts Moslem reaction - Edessa attacked in 1110, 1111, 1112, 1114, 1115.
1112-
1119     Roger rules Antioch.
1116     Baldwin builds Monreal between Aila and Dead sea.
1118     Baldwin I dies, succeeded Baldwin II - annual Egyptian attacks.
1119     Roger of Antioch defeated at Balat.
1123     Venetian crusade fleet of 120 repulse Egyptian attack.
     Baldwin II captured by Balak.
1124     Venetian fleet helps capture Tyre.
1126-
1130     Bohemund II rules Antioch - married Baldwin's daughter.
1129     Zengi begins rule as atabeg [emir] of Aleppo and Mosul raises Moslem power
1130     Alice, widow of Bohemund II, seeks alliance with Zengi who attacks Damascus - She favors marriage of constance to Manuel Comnenus, but Constance marries Raymund of Antioch and Raynald of Chatillon.
1130-
1154     Amirate of Damascus helps against Zengi under vizer, Muin eddin Anar.
1131     Baldwin II reign ends. Fulk of Anjou, husband of Melisende, new king till 1143.
1133     Alliance between Damascus and Jerusalem
1135     Zengi captures fortresses on Antioch frontier.
1137     Zengi defeates Fulk at Barim - takes Montferrand Castle.
     Emperor John Comnenus recieves hommage of Antioch and Tripoli.
1138     Joint Byzantine - Frank campaign against Moslems, planned and conducted against Aleppo. At siege of Shaizar Robert of Antioch did not support John, so the latter raised siege. Collapse of Byzantine - Frank alliance.
1139     Zengi besieges Damascus.
1140     Fulk of Jerusalem brings relief army and Zengi retires - alliance of Damascus and Jerusalem 1140 - Krak of desert built in reign of Fulk of Jerusalem
1142     Emperor John Comnenus returns but dies in 1143 along with Fulk, killed in hunting accident.
1143     First Frankish native king, son of Fulk, Baldwin III.
1144     Zengi reconquers Edessa on Christmas day, thanks to incompetence of Joscelin II and refusal of Raymond (Poitiers) of Antioch to come to rescue - major turning point for Franks.
1145     Eugenius III urges new crusade - Louis VII agrees
1146     Conrad III also agrees to crusade.
     Zengi assassinated - his son, Nureddin, takes over Aleppo and son, Ghazi, takes Mosul.
     Nureddin repells crusader attempt to retake Edessa.
1147     Oct. Conrad III army defeated at Dorylaeum, Byzantine treachery.
     Roger of Sicily at war with Manuel, Byzantine Emperor
1148     Louis VII (with wife, Eleanor of Acquitaine, niece of Raymond) and Conrad reach Holy Land at Antioch. Byzantines have caused loss of much of both armies. Louis refuses to help Raymond against Aleppo, goes to Jerusalem.
     Franks break alliance with Damascus (mistake).
     July 28 - Louis and Conrad decide with Baldwin III to attack Damascus (mistake) vizier, Muin- eddin-Anar holds city.
1149     June 29 - Raymond of Antioch killed in battle at Murad by Nureddin, Antioch looses frontier forts, city saved by Baldwin III.
1150     Nureddin renews attacks, takes Tell-bashir, Baldwin wins renown by successful evacuation of Armenian population to Antioch.
1153     Baldwin III takes Ascalon.
1154     Nureddin takes Damascus, removes potential ally.
1163     Frankish attempt toward Egypt.
1169     Nureddin's lieutenant, Shirguh, becomes vizier of Egypt and then his nephew, Saladin, succeedes in March.
1171     Saladin becomes ruler.
1172     Henry the Lion comes on crusade.
1174     Nureddin dies with only child as heir at Aleppo, who is supported by Raymund, count of Tripoli against Saladin.
     Almaric also dies - Baldwin V is king.
     Saladin takes Damascus.
1183     Saladin takes Aleppo.
1184-
1185     Latin kingdom sends for assistance.
1186     Guy of Lusignan becomes king as husband of Sibylla, Almaric's daughter.
     Raynald of Chatillon attacks caravan with Saladin's sister - Saladin begins jihad.
1187     Saladin attacks, destroys crusader detachment at Tiberias in May and at Hattin in July the levy en masse of 20,000 is destroyed.
1187     Oct 2 - Jerusalem captured.
1189     Only Tyre remains plus Antioch and Tripoli and Margat.
1189-
1192     Third Crusade.
1189-
1229     Continuous crusading of every kind.
1189     Guy de Lusignan begins siege of Acre.
     May - German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa starts on crusade, drowns.
1190     Oct - remanent of German army reaches Acre.
1190-
1191     Richard I and Philippe II 'Augustus' at Sicily.
1191     March - Philippe reaches Acre.
     June - Richard reaches Acre.
     July 12 - Acre falls to Richard and Philippe.
1192     Sept 2 - Richard makes treaty with Saladin.
1193     Saladin dies, sons dispute and divide territories.
1195     Amalric, king of Cyprus, does homage to Henry VI, German Emperor, Henry eager to start new crusade & takes cross.
     Isaac Angelus, Byzantine Emperor dethroned by brother, Alexius III; Isaac's daughter marries Henry's brother, Philip of Swabia; Henry prepares crusade to Constantinople.
1197     Henry VI dies in Sicily - crusade collapses; German crusaders however support Amalric as new King of Jerusalem; Germans recover Beirut and other towns.
1198     King Amalric II makes 5 year truce with Malik-al-Adil.
     Innocent III becomes Pope.
1200     Malik-al-Adil, succeeds Saladin, grants truces for 1198-1203, 1204-1210, 1211-1217.
1200     Innocent pushes new crusade in France with objective Egypt.
1201     Theobald of Champagne, Baldwin of Flanders, count of Blois prepare for crusade - send envoys to Venice to obtain transport.
1202     Crusaders capture Zara in Adriatic coast for Venice.
1203     July - Crusaders reach Constantinople.
1204     April - Crusaders take Constantinople, May - Baldwin of Flanders becomes first Latin emperor of Constantinople.
1212     Children's Crusade from Cologne and France.
1215     Innocent urges crusade at Fourth Lateran Council.
1215-
1217     German troops assemble, Frederick II takes cross, Duke of Austria and King of Hungary go to Holy Land in 1217.
1218     Another German army joins at Acre.
     Pelagius, papal legate in command at Damietta in Egypt; Malik-al-Kamil succeedes Malik-al-Adil. 1219 - Capture Damietta.
1220     Crusaders waiting for Frederick II.
1221     Pelagius marches on Cairo, defeated at Mansura.
1225     Frederick II marries Isabella, daughter of John of Brienne and heiress of Jerusalem.
1227     Frederick II begins crusade.
1229     Feb 18 - Frederick makes treaty with Sultan for Jerusalem and territories on coast.
1229-
1233     Frederick struggles with barons in Holy Land.
1239     Theobald of Champagne goes on crusade to Jerusalem
1240-
1241     Richard of Cornwall, brother of Henry III sails to Holy Land.
1244     Jerusalem lost to Khwarismian Turks brought in by the Egyptians.
     Crusaders ally with Damascus and are destroyed by Turks and Mamlukes at battle of Gaza.
1245     Innocent IV preaches crusade at council of Lyons, sends envoy to Mongols.
1247     Ascalon lost to Bibars.
1248     St Louis goes to Cyprus.
1249     St. Louis arrives in Egypt.
1249     Dec - army lost battle at Mansura, St. Louis captured.
1250     St Louis reaches Acre, stays 4 years.
1252     St. Louis sends envoy to Mongols.
1260     Hulagu Khan with Mongol army takes Damascus.
1260     Bibars becomes Sultan of Egypt.
     Christian Mongol general, Kitboga attacks Egypt, defeated by Bibars, who then captures Damascus.
1261     Latins lose Constantinople.
1265     Bibars takes Caesarea and Arsuf.
1267     St. Louis decides on a new crusade.
1268     Bibars takes Antioch.
1269     James, 'the conqueror' of Aragon, comes on crusade but retires in storm. His army reaches Acre but leaves in 1270.
     Hugh of Cyprus recognized as King of Jerusalem.
1270     St. Louis and Charles of Anjou land at Tunis, Louis dies and Charles signs favorable treaty with bey of Tunis. Prince Edward of England arrives and then continues on to Acre in 1271.
1271-
1272     Edward negociates with Mongols and conducts battles with Mamlukes.
1271     Krak des Chevaliers lost to Bibars.
1272     Bibars grants 10 year truce.
1274     Pope Gregory X preaches crusade at Council of Lyons, many princes agree to serve.
1276     Gregory dies and crusade plans collapse.
1277     Mary of Antioch cedes claims to Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily, who etablishes himself at Acre; 1278 - Charles takes Achaea and prepares new crusade against Constantinople, but 'the Sicilian Vespers' blocks his plans.
1289     Kala'un, successor of Bibar's son, takes Tripoli.
1290     Kala'un dies while preparing to take Acre.
1291     Khalil, his son, takes Acre, ending the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1303     Knights Templar lose Arwad, island off Syria.
1344     Venice, Cyprus, and Knights of Hospital conduct crusade to take Smyrna.
1345     Humbert, Dauphin of Vienne, leads crusade to failure.
1359-
1369     Peter I, King of Cyprus, attempts to recover Holy Land.
1363     Turks capture Philippopolis.
1365     Turks capture Adrianople.
     Peter sacks Alexandria.
1367     Peter attacks coast of Syria.
1396     Attempt for crusade against Turks, defeated decisively at battle of Nicopolis.
1402     Tamerlane destroys Ottoman power at Angora.
1422     Murad begins restoration of Ottoman power.
1443     New crusade of adventurers, led by cardinal Caesarini joined forces with Wladislaus of Poland and John Hunyadi of Transylvania, forces Murad II into a truce at Szegedin in 1444.
1444     Crusaders break truce and are defeated at Varna.
1453     Mohammed II takes Constantinople.

died on 10 November 1143.¹

     Erembourg was the daughter of Helias Count of Maine. She married Fulk V "The Young" Count of Anjou in 1110.¹ died.¹

     died.

     She married Fulk V "The Young" Count of Anjou on 2 June 1129.¹ Melisende died.

     was born.¹ He was the son of Aubri-Geoffrey Count of the Gatinais and Ermengarde of Anjou. He married (?) Bertrade or Beatrice between 1090 and 1091.¹ died.¹

     (?) Bertrade or Beatrice was the daughter of (?) Simon I Seigneur of Montfort I`Amauri and Agnes d`Évreux. She married Fulk IV "Rechin" Count of Anjou between 1090 and 1091.¹ (?) died.¹

     (?) died. He married Agnes d`Évreux.¹

     Agnes died. She married (?) Simon I Seigneur of Montfort I`Amauri.¹

     Fulk III "The Black" Count of Anjou was the son of Geoffrey I "Grisgonelle" Count of Anjou and Adelaide de Vermandois. He married Hildegarde after 1000.¹ died.¹

     She married Fulk III "The Black" Count of Anjou after 1000.¹ Hildegarde died.¹

     Aubri-Geoffrey Count of the Gatinais was the son of Geoffrey III Count of Gatinais and Beatrix of Macon. He married Ermengarde of Anjou circa 1035.¹ Aubri-Geoffrey died.

     Geoffrey III Count of Gatinais was the son of Fulk II "The Good" Count of Anjou and (?) Gerberga (of the Gatinais?) died. He married Beatrix of Macon.¹

     Beatrix died. She married Geoffrey III Count of Gatinais.¹

     died. He married (?) Gerberga (of the Gatinais?).¹

     She married Fulk II "The Good" Count of Anjou.¹ (?) died.

     Ermengarde of Anjou was the daughter of Geoffrey I "Grisgonelle" Count of Anjou and Adelaide de Vermandois. Ermengarde died. She married Conan I Duke of Brittany circa 980.³