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Foulques first appears in a charter of his father in 929, which also me n t i o n ed his mother Roscilla, her parents Garnier (Warnerius) and Tescen d a , a n d G ui (Wido), son of the elder Foulques....Foulques I was still l i v i n g i n August 941 when he and his son Foulques signed a charter...and i t w a s p r o bably not long after that that Foulques II succeeded (since th e c a r e e r of the elder Foulques is documented from 886), but the exact d at e i s n o t k nown, due to the difficulty of identifying which man was th e c o u n t F ulco of charters during the 940's.
Fulk II born c. 905[1] was a son of Fulk the Red and his wife Roscilla d e L o c h e s, daughter of Warnerius, Seigneur de Villentrois. He succeeded h i s f a t h er in 941 as the second count of Anjou,[3] also called the count o f A n g e r s, and remained in power until 960.
The Angevins, Fulk II included, had become particularly adept at establ i s h i n g marriage alliances that furthered their goals.[5] His father, Fu l k t h e R e d had arranged his marriage to a Carolingian, Gerberga, the da u g h t e r of Ratburnus I Viscount of Vienne.[6] Among other things this al l i a n c e opened the doors for their daughter Adelaide-Blanche to marry a f u t u r e k ing of France and their son Guy to become Bishop of le Puy.
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Abt 905 - Abt 958 (53 years)