Ermengarde, Countess of Maine
- Abt 1126-
Name Ermengarde , Countess of Maine [1] Suffix Countess of Maine Gender Female Died Abt 1126 [2] Notes - She was also known as Ermengarde.
Ermengarde or Erembourg of Maine, also known as Erembourg de la Flèche (died 1126), was Countess of Maine and the Lady of Château-du-Loir from 1110 to 1126. She was the daughter of Elias I of Maine, Count of Maine, and Mathilda of Château-du-Loire.
In 1109 she married Fulk V of Anjou, thereby finally bringing Maine under Angevin control. She gave birth to:
Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
Elias II of Maine (d. 1151)
Matilda of Anjou (d. 1154), who married William Adelin, the son and heir to Henry I of England
Sibylla of Anjou (d. 1165), married in 1121 to William Clito, and then (after an annulment in 1124) to Thierry, Count of Flanders
She died in 1126, on either the 15th January or the 12 October. After her death, Fulk left his lands to their son Geoffrey, and set out for the Holy Land, where he married Melisende of Jerusalem and became King of Jerusalem.
Person ID I2141 Bosdet Genealogy Last Modified 16 May 2013
Father Elias, I Count of Maine, d. 11 Jul 1110 Relationship Natural Mother Matilda, d. Abt 1099 Relationship Natural Married 1090 [3] Family ID F163 Group Sheet
Family Fulk, V Count of Anjou, b. Abt 1092, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France 
, d. 13 Nov 1144, Acre, Israel (Age ~ 52 years) Married 1109 [1, 2] Children 1. Alice d'Anjou, b. Between 1107 and 1111, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France , d. 1154, Fontevraud, France (Age ~ 47 years)2. Helias d'Anjou, Comte de Maine II, d. 15 Jan 1150/51 3. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, b. 24 Aug 1113, d. 07 Sep 1151, Château-du-Loir, France (Age 38 years)4. Sibylla of Anjou, b. Between 1112 and 1116, d. 1165, Bethany, Al-Eizariya, Palestine (Age ~ 53 years)5. Isabella d'Anjou Family ID F12 Group Sheet
- She was also known as Ermengarde.
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Sources - [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengarde_of_Maine.
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- [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_I_of_Maine.
- [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengarde_of_Maine.