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Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou, also called Ermengarde of Anjou (c.?956 - c.?1024),[a] was the Countess of Rennes, Regent of Brittany (992–994) and also Countess of Angoulême.
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1 Life
2 Issue
3 Notes
4 References
Life[edit]
Ermengarde-Gerberga was born c.?956,[1] the daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Meaux.[2] She married Conan I of Rennes, Count of Rennes, in 973.[3] Her husband Conan of Rennes opposed her father and brother Fulk even though the marriage was apparently designed to form a political alliance between Anjou and Brittany.[4] Even after Conan had been killed by Fulk at the Battle of Conquereuil in 992, and during the period 992-994 when Ermengarde was Regent for their son Geoffrey, she remained loyal to her brother Fulk III, Count of Anjou.[4] In 992, following the interests of her brother, and functioning as Regent, she accepted Capetian over-lordship for Rennes while rejecting that of Odo I, Count of Blois.[5]
About 1000[6] her brother Fulk III arranged his widowed sister to marry, secondly, William II of Angoulême, one of his close allies.[7]
Issue[edit]
By her first husband Conan I 'le Tort' Count of Rennes, she had the following children:
Judith (982–1017), married Richard II, Duke of Normandy.[3]
Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany, the eventual heir to Conan I.[3]
Judicael, count of Porhoët (died 1037).[3]
Hernod.[3]
By her second husband William II 'Taillefer' Count of Angoulême, she had the following children:
Alduin, Count of Angoulême (d. 1032), married Alaisia de Gasçogne.[6]
Geoffrey, Count of Angoulême (d.1048), married 1stly Petronille d'Archiac, 2ndly Anceline.[6]
Fulk of Angoulême, married Aynors.[6]
Odon (flourished c. 1030).[6]
Arnauld (died young).[6]
William (died young).[6] [1] |
Ellie Wood Keith Genealogy
958 - 1024 (66 years)