Posted on 12/05/2020 3:27:52 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Sometime in December of the year 999 — the exact date is not recorded — Fulk III, Count of Anjou (allegedly) had his wife, Elisabeth of Vendôme, burned at the stake in her wedding gown.
Truly a man of his unruly age, Fulk Nerra, “the Black Count”, wore his outsized passions on his mailed sleeve.
He was a remarkable captain of the Angevin realm; we have even met him glancingly in these pages as, having married his niece to the king of France, Fulk and his allies were embroiled in the court politicking that resulted in medieval Europe’s first heresy executions....
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One mean fulk.
Whut?
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 999...
I am certain there is some Radical Feminist somewhere on some campus, who will say that any time something like that happens to a male, he *always* deserves it.
That is seriously Fulked up.
One of those threads that are better off ignoring than trying to understand them.....Oh well
Fulk Nerra was an ancestor of King Henry II, the first Angevin king of England.
A family member, also named Fulk of Anjou, would rule Jerusalem and the Holy Land after its conquest in the First Crusade.
Is that the antithesis to the 666 mark of the beast? And should we be concerned?
That’s one way to avoid going to divorce court.
Mr Fulk’s wife got the Royal FULKING!!
That’s fulked up!
Nerra Fulk with a black count I guess
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