Baldwin II to Fulk d'Anjou


	Baldwin II to Fulk d'Anjou

ozzybinoswald

8-28-2008 2:49 PM

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baldwin, fulk, anjou, melusine, templar, bloodline

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/94c80752-7837-4540-8ea8-80f6fd071d3a/3C5DE21E-1AE6-414B-93D8-DD126059EA45/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:jLph803IQZQJ:www.etoile.co.uk/Columns/Ken/041219.html+%22baldwin+II%22+legend+family+baldwin+bloodline&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=ca&client=firefox-a" href="http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:jLph803IQZQJ:www.etoile.co.uk/Columns/Ken/041219.html+%22baldwin+II%22+legend+family+baldwin+bloodline&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=ca&client=firefox-a" style="font-size: 11px;">209.85.141.104</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:jLph803IQZQJ:www.etoile.co.uk/Columns/Ken/041219.html+%22baldwin+II%22+legend+family+baldwin+bloodline&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=ca&client=firefox-a"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US">The intended connection may lie with Henry’s
    grandfather, Fulk of Anjou, who years before Henry’s time had left </SPAN><ST1:PLACE><SPAN lang="EN-US">Europe</SPAN></ST1:PLACE><SPAN lang="EN-US"> and his <B>family</B> to go on crusade, and ended
    up married to the daughter of <B>Baldwin II</B>, the King of Jerusalem.<SPAN>  </SPAN><B>Baldwin</B> had no son, and so his daughter’s
    husband became the King of Jerusalem after him, and their descendants – Fulk’s
    second <B>family</B> – have either sat on or claimed the throne of the Crusader Kingdom of
    Jerusalem ever since.<SPAN>  </SPAN>Hence the Kings of
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    Brabant.<SPAN>
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