the name of a distinguished French family, which produced a number of famous warriors and counts of Anjou. The principal of them were—Foulques I., called le Roux, Count of Anjou, who succeeded his father, Ingelger, in 888 A.D. He made war upon the Bretons and Normans, and died in 938. Foulques II., called le Bon, son of the preceding, and succeeded by Geoffroi I.; Foulques III., called Nerro or le Noir, son of the last-mentioned; Foulques IV., called le Rechin; and Foulques V., called le Jeune, son and successor of the preceding, in the year 1109.