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Fulk

king of Jerusalem
Also known as: Foulques le Jeune, Fulk V, Fulk the Younger

Fulk (born 1092β€”died November 1143, Acre, Palestine [now ΚΏAkko, Israel]) was the count of Anjou and Maine as Fulk V (1109–31) and king of Jerusalem (1131–43). Son of Fulk IV the Surly and Bertrada of Montfort, he was married in 1109 to Arenburga of Maine. Fulk exerted his control over his vassals and was later caught up in dynastic quarrels between the French and English kings. In 1128 his son Geoffrey Plantagenet married Matilda, daughter...