Biography of Matilda Anjou Abbess Fontevraud 1111-1154

Paternal Family Tree: Anjou aka Plantagenet

Maternal Family Tree: Matilda Chateau Du Loir Countess Maine

On 14 Apr 1109 [her grandfather] Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou (age 66) died. In 1109 His son [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 20) succeeded V Count Anjou.

In 1110 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 21) and [her mother] Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou were married. She by marriage Countess Anjou. She the daughter of Elias La Flèche De Baugency I Count Maine and Matilda Chateau Du Loir Countess Maine. He the son of Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou and Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France (age 40).

Around 1111 Matilda Anjou Abbess Fontevraud was born to Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 22) and Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1119. This year went [her husband] William (age 15), the son of King Henry (age 51) and [her sister-in-law] Queen Matilda (age 16), into Normandy [Map] to his father, and there was given to him, and wedded to wife, the daughter (age 8) of the [her father] Earl of Anjou (age 30).

In 1119 William Adelin Normandy Duke Normandy (age 15) and Matilda Anjou Abbess Fontevraud (age 8) were married. She the daughter of Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 30) and Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou. He the son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 51) and Edith aka Matilda Dunkeld Queen Consort England.

Sinking of The White Ship

On 25 Nov 1120 the White Ship left Barfleur, Basse Normandie, with a party of young Normans. [her father-in-law] King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 52) had left earlier on another ship. A mile out the White Ship foundered on a submerged rock. [her husband] William Adelin Normandy Duke Normandy (age 17), his half-siblings [her illegitimate brother-in-law] Richard Fitzroy (age 19) and [her illegitimate sister-in-law] Matilda Fitzroy Countess Perche, William Bigod (age 27), Lucia Mahaut Blois Countess Chester, brothers Geoffrey Aigle and Engenulf Aigle, half-brothers Richard Avranches 2nd Earl Chester (age 26) and Ottiwel Avranches, brothers Ivo Grandesmil and William Grandesmil and Geoffrey Ridel were all drowned.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1121. This year came the [her father] Earl of Anjou (age 32) from Jerusalem into his land; and soon after sent hither to fetch his daughter (age 10), who had been given to wife to [her former husband] William, the [her former father-in-law] king's (age 53) son.

In 1126 [her mother] Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou died.

On 02 Jun 1129 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 40) and [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 24) were married at Jerusalem. She by marriage Countess Anjou. Her father (age 54) had written to Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 40) requesting the marriage since he had no mlae heirs. She the daughter of Baldwin II King Jerusalem (age 54). He the son of Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou and Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France.

On 21 Aug 1131 Baldwin II King Jerusalem (age 56) died. [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 42) succeeded King Jerusalem. [her step-mother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 26) by marriage Queen Consort Jerusalem.

In 1132 [her illegitimate brother-in-law] Fulk Fitzroy (age 40) died.

After 1136 [her illegitimate sister-in-law] Juliane Fitzroy (age 46) died.

After 1142 [her illegitimate brother-in-law] Gilbert Fitzroy died.

On 13 Nov 1143 [her father] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem (age 54) was killed whilst hunting.

In 1150 Matilda Anjou Abbess Fontevraud (age 39) was appointed Abbot Fontevraud.

Around 05 Jun 1152 Eleanor of Aquitaine (age 30) visited Fontevraud Abbey [Map] where she met Abbess Matilda (age 41) (her husband's Henry's (age 19) aunt by marriage - Abbess Matilda (age 41) had married [her former husband] William Adelin brother of his mother [her former sister-in-law] Empress Matilda (age 50) who had died in the White Ship Disaster).