Fulk III Nerra

Article abstract: Military significance: Created a powerful and secure state out of Anjou and Maine and portions of surrounding territories by effective campaigning and careful placement of defensive strongholds.

Fulk III Nerra’s father, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle, united the scattered lands that his family had controlled as counts of Anjou since the 920’s. Coming to power at age seventeen, Fulk was well educated and a student of the classical Roman military author Flavius Vegetius Renatus. In organizing and leading the Angevin armies, he followed such Vegetian...

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