81:), probably Geoffrey IV. The poem is didactic and upholds the count, only named as Martel, as an exemplar of good rulership. The last lines offer hope that he may "long prosper", and so must have been written during the brief period of his rule in Anjou.
53:. Fulk, by then an old man, had previously delegated much of his authority to Geoffrey. With the support of his father's adversaries, Geoffrey seems to have achieved recognition from his father and from 1103 styled himself "count" (
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Bourbon. His father tried to disinherit him in favour of
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History: Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France (Carmina Houghtoniensia)
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long. For an edition of the poem with translation, analysis and commentary, see
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admirabilem virum, justitie insignem, totius boni cultorem, qui terror omnium inimicorum suorum fuit
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Chroniques des comtes d'Anjou et des seigneurs d'Amboise
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