Book I

. the origin of the Ascribes their origin to the Angevin family is traced to the marriage of one of the early marriage of Mazadan with the fairy Counts with a lady of surpassing Terre-de-la-schoie. The fairy beauty, whose _demon_ origin was origin of the race is referred to discovered by her inability to again in Books II. and VIII., the remain in church during Mass. later allusion being in connection It was to the influence of this with Vergulacht, son of Gamuret's ancestress that the uncontrollable sister, and cousin to hero. temper of the Angevin princes was ascribed. Richard Coeur-de-lion is reported to have frequently said, 'We came from the Devil, and we go back to the Devil.' (In each instance it will be noted that the supernatural element is introduced by the wife.)

GAMURET FULK V. OF ANJOU

Younger son of the King of Anjou; Son of Fulk IV. (_Rechin_), and brought up at the court of French Bertalda de Montfort. His mother queen; goes to the East where eloped with, and married, Philip, he marries a Moorish queen, and king of France. She remained becomes king of an Eastern kingdom.on good terms with her former husband, and, Fulk, having already an heir by a previous wife, was allowed to bring up her son at her own court. The elder brother dying, Fulk became his father's heir, and finally succeeded him. In 1129, after the marriage of his son, Geoffrey, with the Empress Maud, Fulk was invited by Baldwin, king of Jerusalem, to become his son-in-law and successor. Accordingly he resigned Anjou to Geoffrey, went to Jerusalem, where he married Melesinda, daughter and heiress to Baldwin, and, after the death of the latter, succeeded him as king, and reigned till his death in 1142. (Here again we note that, in each instance, the Eastern kingdom is won through the wife.)

Gamuret's first recorded deed A similar incident is recorded of of valour is the conquest, in Geoffrey I. (_Grisegonelle_) who, single combat, of Heuteger, the during the siege of Paris by the Scotchman, who appears every Danes in 978, overthrew a gigantic morning before the gates of Northman named Ethelwulf, who Patelamunt, to challenge the daily challenged the besieged in besieged knights. the manner recounted in the poem. Later historians cast doubts on the truth of this story, but it appears in all the old chronicles, and was undoubtedly firmly believed in by the writers of the twelfth century.

HERZELEIDE THE EMPRESS MAUDE

Widow, queen of two kingdoms, and Widow, Empress, Lady of two Lands, marries Prince of Anjou. England and Normandy, marries Count of Anjou.

Her son is subsequently deprived Her son is deprived of these two of these kingdoms by the action kingdoms by the action of two of _one knight_,