♂Foulques of Anjou

Foulques of Anjou is a medieval ancestor of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), her twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth great-grandfather by three separate lines of descent, all through his son Geoffrey of Anjou (1113–1151).

Douglas Richardson’s Plantagenet Ancestry names him as Foulques V, called “le Jeune”, Count of Anjou and King of Jerusalem^W. By his first wife, Eremburge of Maine, he is said to have had a son, Geoffrey, born in 1113, who became Count of Anjou and Maine after him and married Maud of England.

Lines of descent

The three lines all run through Geoffrey of Anjou and come down to Nancy Jane Blanchard through her father Kenneth Blanchard (1897–1975). They meet again in Polly Knapp (1798–1863), whose parents Joseph Knapp (1763–1839) and Eunice Carver (1763–1845) both descend from Foulques, and in Joan of England (1272–1307), whose parents Edward of England (1239–1307) and Eleanor of Castile both descend from him.

Notes

Source and grade

Everything here rests on one printed compilation, Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, vol. I, England 1, p. 1, which names Foulques V as the father of Geoffrey Plantagenet by his first wife, Eremburge, Countess of Maine. The entry gives no dates for Foulques himself. No contemporary record is held for him, so his titles and his son’s parentage are carried as compiled, not as documented.