Fulk of Nevers (died 1066), known as Foulques l'Oison (meaning ''the Goose'', ''the Fool'', or ''the Idiot''), was the
count of Vendôme
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from 1028 until his expulsion in 1032 and again from 1056 to his death. He was the second son of
Bodon of Nevers and
Adela of Anjou.
In 1028, his elder brother,
Bouchard II, died and their mother took up the regency for the young Fulk. Half of the county was entrusted to Fulk's care. Unsatisfied, Fulk sought to evict his mother from her half. Adela gave her share to
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Count of Anjou
The Count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by Charles the Bald in the 9th century to Robert the Strong. Ingelger and his son, Fulk the Red, were viscounts until Fulk assumed the title of Count of Anjou. The Robertians ...
. Martel was not long in seizing the whole country. This state continued until 1056, when
King Henry I ordered Martel to return the county of Vendôme to Fulk. Fulk was thereafter under the suzerainty of the counts of Anjou.
In his final decade as count, Fulk entered into war with
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and with the
Trinity Abbey, Vendôme Trinity Abbey, Vendôme, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 1035 in Vendôme by Geoffrey Martel and his first wife, Agnes of Burgundy. It was consecrated on 31 May 1040, one month before Geoffrey became Count of Anjou.
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He was married to Petronilla of Château-Gontier. They had a son and two daughters:
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Bouchard III, succeeded in Vendôme
*
Euphrosine, married
Geoffrey III of Preuilly
*Agatha, married Ralph Payen, viscount of Vendôme
1066 deaths
Counts of Vendôme
Year of birth unknown
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