Individual Details

Foulque 5th le Jeune "Fulk the Younger" d'Anjou King of Jersalem and Count of Anjou

(1092 - 13 Nov 1143)

Events

Birth1092Angers, Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, France
Marriage1109Ermengarde de Maine (de la Fleche) Lady of Château-du-Loir and Countess of Maine
Death13 Nov 1143in a hunting accident - Acre, Hazafon, Palestine
BurialChurch of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

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Death

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's skull was crushed by the saddle, "and his brains gushed forth from both ears and nostrils", as William of Tyre describes. He was carried back to Acre, where he lay unconscious for three days before he died. He was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Though their marriage started in conflict, Melisende mourned for him privately as well as publicly. Fulk was survived by his son Geoffrey of Anjou by his first wife, and Baldwin III and Amalric I by Melisende.