Count Fulk IV of Anjou 1043-1109 marries Bertrade | Bertrade then leaves him | and marries King Philip I of France who is then excommunicated by the Pope | |||
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Their son Fulk V of Anjou 1089-1143 marries Ermengarde of Maine 1096-1126 | They have a daughter Cecile | who marries | Pons of Tripoli | ||
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Geoffrey Plantegenet 1113-1151 | After his first wife Ermengarde dies, and with his first son Geoffrey married to Matilda, heir to the English throne, Fulk, having been a wealthy crusader for a year back in 1120, an experienced military commander, a provider of monetary support to two knights in the Knights Templar in 1122, now marries Melisende daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem in 1129, and becomes King of Jerusalem in 1131, co-ruling with his wife. His next two sons are Baldwin III 1130-1163 who becomes King of Jerusalem co-ruling with his mother in 1143 and then Amalric 1136-1174 who follows his brother as King of Jerusalem in 1163 | They have a son Raymond II of Tripoli 1115-1152 who marries Melisende's sister Honierna. These two have a son Raymond III of Tripoli 1140-1187 who becomes regent of Jerusalem in 1174 after his maternal cousin Amalric dies. | |||
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Geoffrey marries Matilda, daughter and heir of King Henry I of England in 1128 and they have a son Henry 1133-1189 who, following a civil war in England between Matilda and her cousin Stephen, becomes King Henry II of England in 1154. He is the paternal half-cousin of Sybilla and Baldwin IV | Amalric has a daughter Sibylla 1160-1190 and a son Baldwin IV 1161-1185 who, while suffering severely from leprosy, becomes King of Jerusalem in 1174 assisted by Raymond of Tripoli, his father Amalric's maternal cousin. His sister Sibylla became Queen after Baldwin died and reigned 1186-1187 with her husband Guy of Lusignan until Saladin took the city. | ||||
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Succeeded in 1189 by his son King Richard I 1157-1199 |