Chrotrud was the wife of Charles Martel and mother of the king Pepin the Short. According to Frankish tradition, she was the
daughter of Saint Leutwinus, son of Gunza and one Count Warinus, himself the son of Sigrada and Bodilan. Her mother, whose
name was not known, was said to be the daughter of Doda and Rodobertus, son of Lantbertus I.
"Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England 1623-1650",
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Editions 1-6.
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Brother of St. Leger, who d. 677, Bishop of Autun
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GEN: In 1199,John divorced Isabella of Gloucester, although she had only GEN: recently been crowned with him. It was all too easy to obtain an GEN: annulment GEN: from Innocent III on the grounds of consanguinity, as she was his GEN: second GEN: cousin and shared Henry I of England with him as a great-grandfather. GEN: The GEN: king had no GEN: desire to be succeeded by Arthur, who was the only other surviving GEN: Plantagenet. He therefore sent envoys to king Sancho of Portugal to GEN: ask GEN: for the hand of his daughter. But suddenly, at the very last moment, GEN: he GEN: changed his mind and forgot the Portugese alliance altogether. GEN: While the English envoys were in Portugal during the summer of GEN: 1200, GEN: king John was making a progress through Poitou. The dangerous Lusignan GEN: family had now become his allies since they had got possession of La GEN: Marche, and to make the reconciliation complete John visited them at GEN: Lusignan, where he was splen- GEN: didly received. Amid all the festivities he was presented to the GEN: beautiful GEN: Isabella of Angouleme, the daughter and heiress of count Aymar of GEN: Angouleme. She was no more than fourteen perhaps only twelve--and was GEN: betrothed to the head of GEN: the Lusignan clan, count Hugh the Brown (the man who had recently GEN: ambushed GEN: queen Eleanor on her way to Castile), and in 12OO a formal betrothal GEN: was GEN: almost as binding as a marriage that had been comsummated. Although he GEN: himself was thirty-five John immediately fell in love with the girl, GEN: and GEN: where his lusts were concerned the king had no restraint whatsoever. GEN: (William of Newburgh tells us that John hated a certain Eustace fitz GEN: John GEN: simply because he had placed 'a common woman' in the royal bed instead GEN: of GEN: his own wife) Moreover, it was rummoured that the young Isabella GEN: actually GEN: enticed the king and led him on. Hugh the Brown, unsuspecting and only GEN: too GEN: anxious to be of service to his generous overlord, was sent on a GEN: mission GEN: to England to keep GEN: him out of the way. To Hugh's complete surprise, he suddenly received GEN: news GEN: in August that king John had just married his betrothed at Angouleme GEN: with GEN: her father's full approval. GEN: As a marriage the alliance was reasonablly successful. Isabella of GEN: Angouleme gave the king all the children he wanted, although he still GEN: kept GEN: plenty of mistresses. She herself, it was rumoured, was promiscuous GEN: and GEN: John was even said to have imprisoned her on occasions. But this seems GEN: to GEN: be a smear put about by the king's enemies and is not supported by GEN: any GEN: convincing evidence. GEN: ABBR G. E. Cokayne's (new revised) Complete peerage V 7 GEN: TITL G. E. Cokayne's (new revised) Complete peerage V 736. GEN: ABBR Eleanor of Aquitaine, by Desmond Stewart, 1978 GEN: TITL Eleanor of Aquitaine, by Desmond Stewart, 1978
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Became count on the death of his elder brother
Return to Fulk II "the Good" OF ANJOU
became King of Jerusalem 1131 on the death of his 2nd Father-in-Law In 1120 became a member of the Order of the Knights Templar. Fulk died after a fall from his horse in 1143 after his horse fell while chasing a rabbit.
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