Fulk, King of Jerusalem
Count of Anjou (r. 1109-1129) and the King of Jerusalem (r.1131-1143) · France · Historical Figures · Lived 1092 to 1143 · aged 51
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Something wrong?A French count who gave up Anjou to marry into Jerusalem's throne, then spent a decade navigating the tension between being king by marriage and sharing real power with a queen who had her own claim.
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Coronation of Fulk and Melisende, Paris, BN MS Fr. 779, fol. 123v (Central France, 1270-79)
The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states in 1135 AD, during the reign of Fulk
King Fulk of Jerusalem is fatally thrown from his horse while pursuing a hare. From an illustrated copy of the Estoire d'Eracles (1275-1325). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.![Melisende marries Fulk, from The History of the Conquest of Jerusalem by William of Tyre, c. 1470.[24]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Melisende_and_Fulk_of_Jerusalem.jpg)
Melisende marries Fulk, from The History of the Conquest of Jerusalem by William of Tyre, c. 1470.[24]Family
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Fulk held Anjou from 1109 and Maine from 1110 through his first wife, Countess Erembourg. In 1129 he left France for Jerusalem, marrying Queen Melisende in 1131 and becoming co-ruler of the Crusader kingdom. The arrangement was fractious - he was king, but she held her own inherited right, and the balance never quite settled. He died in a hunting accident on 13 November 1143. His bloodline split two ways: one branch became the Angevin kings of England, the other continued the fragile Latin rule in Jerusalem.
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