Born ‎between 909 BET., - and at Anjou, France; 3, died ‎ Nov 11, 958 at Tours, France; 3‎
Name: Fulk II the Good, Count de ANJOU
Surname: Anjou
Given Name: Fulk II the Good, Count de
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 0909/0920 in Anjou,France
Death: 11 Nov 0958 in Tours,France
Reference Number: 37896
_UID: 88817E2E6DBB2B4CAA05A0205B2AEAD2042B
Occupation: Count from 0941 to 0958 Anjou 1
Note:
FOSTER LINE

!Waged no wars. His delight was to sit in the choir of Tours and to be called "Canon". One Martinmas eve Fulk was singing there in clerkly guise when the French King, Lewis d'Outremer, entered the church. "He sings like a priest," laughed the King as his nobles point mockingly to the figure of the Count-Canon. But Fulk was ready with his reply. "Know, my lord," wrote the Count of Anjou, "that a King unlearned is a crowned ass." Fulk was in fact no priest, but a busy ruler, governing, enforcing peace, and carrying justice to every corner of the wasted land. To him alone of his race men gave the title of "the Good." [WBH - England]

b. 909, d. 958 [Judy Martin]

Son of Fulk I the Red, Count of Anjou, and Roscilla of Locher Villandry; m. Gerberge; father of Adelaide d/Anjou. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 3311, 3318, 3332]

Count of Anjou in 941; d. 958. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 3301]

Grandson of Ingelgar. Under his leadership Anjou enjoyed a time of tranquil prosperity. Father of Geoffrey the Count of Anjou, Guy the bishop of Le Puy, and Drogo his favorite who was conceived when Fulk was past middle age. [The Plantagenet Chronicles, p. 19]

Count of Anjou; son of Fulk I, Count of Anjou, and Roscille of Loches; m. Gerberge of Maine; father of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD1, CD00
Author: Automated Archives, Inc.
Publication: Genealogical Research System, 1994
Glick/Foster Ancestry at Rootsweb.com

Born ‎ 915 at Gatinais, Maine, France, died ‎ 952‎, 36 or 37 years
Name: Gerberga de Gatinais 1 1
Sex: F
Name: Gerverga of Gatinais 2
Birth: 915 in Gatinais, Orleanais, France 3
Death: 952 3
Event: Gen Source 30 MAR 1994 ARP 1450:1; ARP 1157:31 4
Event: Fact 2nd wife 5 4
Note:
Her ancestry follows the ancestry for Gerberga, presented on soc.genealogy.medieval by Alan B. Wilson, based on work by Settipani, which is still speculative.[Ancestry.com Tree 0472 says Gerberga of Gatinais

Directory of Royal Genealogy says Gervenga of GaitnaisTurton has Gerberge as "d' Arles", daughter (with a ?) of Rotbold II Comte d'Arles, while AR has Gerberga (de Gatinais?). Neither source seems sure. Others say Gerberga du Maine, de Vienne, or de Tours. @@check ancestry

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The following post to soc.genealogy.medieval on 1 Jun 1998 by Ken Finton indicates that the only agreement seems to be to her first name (Professor Bachrach, a historian, proposed the existence of Gerberga, daughter of Ratburnus of Vienne, who married Fulk II, on purely political/historical grounds, even though there was no other indication that Ratburnus had a daughter named Gerberga.):

This is directed at Professor Bachrach:

There seems to be a lot of disagreement as to the father of Gerberga, wife of Fulk II. It has been called to my attention that you favor her identification as:

Gerberga of Vienne, d/o Ratburnus. ["Prosopographical Method", _Medieval Prosopography 7_ , no. 2 (1986), 1-23. In his "Fulk Nerra" Bachrach says firmly that she is Gerberga of Vienne, da. of the "mere" (as he puts it, as part of his argument on the political import of the marriage) viscount of Vienne, Viscount Ratburnus I (p. 7 - and see his geneal of this house, chart 14)."]

ES III:116 says this Fulk m. (1) Gerberga, dau. of Herve, Ct of Maine and (2) the widow of Alain, Duke of Brittany. Turton (chart 6) has her as Gerberga d'Arles, da. of Rotbold II, comte d'Arles. Also, Her father may have been Theobald de Tours.), source Royalty for Commoners, by Roderick W. Stuart, p. 125.

If she is of Vienne, how can this be backed up? To complicate matters, I see that Christian Thevenot, "Foulque III Nerra, Comte d'Anjou" (1987) endorses Gerberga as Gerberge du Maine, da. of Hervé, Sgr du Maine, as the ES Chart shows.

Kenneth Harper Finton
Editor/ Publisher
THE PLANTAGENET CONNECTION

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I have adopted the ancestry for Gerberga, presented on soc.genealogy.medieval by Alan B. Wilson, based on work by Settipani, which is still speculative.


Father: Geoffrey Count of Gatinais b: 890 in Orleans, France
Mother: Ava of Arverne b: ABT 893 in Auvergne, France

Marriage 1 Foulques II "Le Bon" Comte d' Anjou b: ABT 909 in Anjou, France
Married: 2 MAR 936/37 in 1st wife 6
Children
Geoffroy I 'Grisegonnelle' Comte d' Anjou b: 11 NOV 938 in Anjou, France
Bouchard I de Vendome b: ABT 939 in Anjou, France
Agnes d' Anjou b: ABT 940 in Anjou, France
Adelaide (Blanche\Adele) d' Anjou b: ABT 942 in Anjou/Pays-de-la-Loire, France

Sources:
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Ed.
Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.
Publication: 1999
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Page: 118-20
Text: Gerberga (of the Gatinais?)
Title: Directory of Royal Genealogical Data
Author: Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science
Publication: Department of Computer Science, Hull University
Note: usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc
Repository:
Note: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
Call Number:
Media: Electronic
Title: Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Electronic
Page: Alan B Wilson, 12 Jun 1998
Title: World Family Tree Vol. 29, Ed. 1
Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc.
Publication: Release date: August 23, 1996
Note: Customer pedigree.
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Page: Tree 100]

!Charta from Charlemagne Society of Utah

Dau of Theobald/Thibault of Arles and Bertha of Rome; m. Foulques/Fulk II of Anjou; mother of Guy, Drogon, Aelips, Adelaide, Geoffroy, Bouchard and Arsinde. [Sally Six 1 2 3
Change Date: 27 Jul 2003 at 22:49:51

Father: Herve de GATINAIS Count of Maine b: ABT 0890 in of Maine

Father: Thibault I, Count of ARLES b: ABT 0855 in of Arles, France
Mother: Bertha, Princess of LORRAINE b: ABT 0863 in of Lorraine

Marriage 1 Fulk II the Good, Count de ANJOU b: ABT 0909/0920 in Anjou,France
Children
Aelips de ANJOU b: ABT 0936 in of Anjou, France
Geoffrey I "Grisegonnelle", Count de ANJOU b: 11 Nov 0938 in Anjou,France
Guy de ANJOU Abbot of Cormery b: ABT 0939 in Anjou, France
Agnes d' ANJOU b: ABT 0940 in Anjou, France
Adelaide, Countess D'ANJOU b: ABT 0942 in Anjou, France
Drogo de ANJOU Bishop of Le Puy b: ABT 0943 in Anjou, France

Sources:
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III
Author: Buck, J. Orton; Beard, Timothy Field
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1988
Repository:
Name: Denver Public Library

Title: Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and Other Ancestors
Author: Mitchell, James T.
Publication: 1991
Page: Chart 3301, 3318, 3340, 3375
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees 100
Author: Automated Archives, Inc.
Publication: Genealogical Research System, 1994
From 'Glick/Foster Ancestry' at Rootsweb.com