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Duchess Ermengarde d'Anjou
958 - 1022 (63 years)-
Name Ermengarde d'Anjou Title Duchess Birth 11 Nov 958 Pays de la Loire, France 
Gender Female Accession 992 Countess of Rennes
Regent of Brittany (992-994)
Countess of AngoulêmeDeath 27 Jun 1022 Pays de la Loire, France Burial Saint Aubin Abbey, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France Notes - Ermengarde-Gerberga was born c. 956, the daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Meaux. She married Conan I of Rennes, Count of Rennes, in 973. 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. 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. 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.
About 1000 her brother Fulk III arranged his widowed sister to marry, secondly, William II of Angoulême, one of his close allies.
Person ID I1254 OurNorthernRoots | Andrew's Ancestor Last Modified 7 Aug 2026
Father Count Geoffrey I d'Anjou, b. 939, Maine-de-Boixe, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 21 Jul 987, Marcon, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 48 years) Mother Adele of Meaux, b. 7 Dec 933, Caen, Calvados, Normandie, France d. 12 Mar 984, France (Age 50 years) Family ID F6786 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Duke Conan I of Brittany, b. Est 960 d. 27 Jun 992 (Age ~ 32 years) Children + 1. Duke Geoffery of Brittany, b. Est 980 d. 1008 (Age ~ 28 years) + 2. Judith of Brittany, b. 982 d. Aug 1027 (Age ~ 45 years) Family ID F9623 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Ermengarde-Gerberga was born c. 956, the daughter of Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou and Adele of Meaux. She married Conan I of Rennes, Count of Rennes, in 973. 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. 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. 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.
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Birth - 11 Nov 958 - Pays de la Loire, France 
Death - 27 Jun 1022 - Pays de la Loire, France = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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