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Count of Anjou
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Fulk III, Count of Anjou
11th-century Frankish nobleman
Fulk III, the Black (c. –; Old French: Foulque Nerra) was an early Count of Anjou celebrated as one of the first great builders of medieval castles. It is estimated Fulk constructed approximately castles as well as abbeys throughout the Loire Valley in what is now France. He fought successive wars with neighbors in Brittany, Blois, Poitou and Aquitaine and made four pilgrimages to Jerusalem during the course of his life. He had two wives and three children.
Fulk was a natural horseman and fearsome warrior with a keen sense of military strategy that bested 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, Fulk's bitter enemy was Odo II of Blois, his neighbor &#;km east along the Loire river, at Tours. The two men traded towns, followers and insults throughout their lives.
Fulk finished his first castle at Langeais, &#;km east of Angers, on the banks of the Loire. 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 word "dungeon
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On the 21st of June , Fulk III Nerra, also known as Fulk the Black (French: Foulques le Noir), who was Count of Anjou from to , died at the old age of Fulk was a powerful early ruler of the Angevin dynasty that originated in the County of Anjou.
Anjou was an object of envy from the neighbors. At first, Fulk’s lands were attacked by the Count of Brittany, so he fought fiercely to drive the invaders out of his domains. He succeeded: Fulk defeated Conan I of Brittany at the Battle of Conquereux and then besieged the city of Nantes, whose citizens resisted his army. Conan fell on the battlefield, while Fulk, in spite of having been thrown from his horse, recovered and rallied his men like a rampant force of nature.
Once the western borders of Anjou were safe, Fulk’s attention shifted to his other enemy in the east – Odo II, Count of Blois (French: Eudes II). Both vassals to King Robert II of France known as the Pious, Fulk and Odo both ruled major principalities and had their own armies. Their rivalry had started under Hugh Capet, the first Capetian ruler of France. Under Hugh’s son, Robert, it intensified after Robert had repudiated his first queen, Rozala of Italy, to marry Bertha of Burgundy, widow of Count Odo I of Blois. Robert began opposing Fulk’s attempts