150994944. Uchtred (Ecgfrith) , 3rd Earl of Northumbria, Lord of Bamburgh
was made Earl of Northumberland by King Ethelred, whose daughter Elgina or Algiva he married for his 3rd wife.
[Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, 832]
150994948. Thorfinn II Sigurdsson , Jarl of Ornkey, Earl of Caithness
Ancestor of the Washington and Bradley Families in England.
In Molsonby and Diddaston bailiwick of the Geld, 11 carucates and 10 ploughs. There Thordinn had one manor; now Bodin has there 1 carucate and 15 villans, and 3 borders, with 7 ploughs. There is a church there.
The whole was 1 league in length, and 1 in breadth, temp. Edward the Confessor."--(1041-1066.)The above is from the Domesday Book, and is a translation of that portion respecting the North Riding in Yorkshire, including the district of Wharleton, alias Washington.--1070-1080.
[The Pedigree and History of the Washington Family, xiii]-------------------
"Made clear then to King karl
The close of his iron-fate,
east of Deerness, defied
and defeated by warrior-kin.
Confronting the foe, Thorfinn's
fleet of five ships
steered, steadfast in anger
against karl's sea-goers.Ships grappled
together; gore, as foes fell,
bathed stiffed iron, black
with Scots' blood;
singing the bows spilt
blood, steel bit; bright
though the quick points quacked,
no quenching Thorfinn.Long the loud war
-thunder, the spear-lunge;
though few, my lord's force
made his foes fly
while, over the wounded (once
sword-washers), the war-bird
screamed: south of Sandwick
shone the lord's battle-sunArnor
155622976. Foulques V "the Younger" , King of Jerusalem, Comte d'Anjou
Fulk V, Count of Anjou, was born 1092, and was Count 1109-1142. He married 1st Ermengarde, daughter of Helias, Count of Maine, and had by her his heir, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, Helias, who became Count of Maine or Mayenne, and two daughters, Sybilla and Matilda. He married 2nd Melesenda, daughter of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, and became King of Jerusalem at the death of his father-in-law Sept. 4, 1131. Fulk V was son of Bertrada de Montford, who eventually deserted her husband and became the mistress of Philip I of France. Fulk became Count of Anjou in 1109, and showed himself a doughty opponent to Henry I, King of England, against whom he continually supported Louis VI of France until, in 1127, Henry I won him over by betrothing his daughter Matilda to Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet. Already in 1120 Fulk V had visited the Holy Land and became a close friend of the Templars. On his return he assigned to the Order of the Templars an annual subsidy, while he also maintained two knights in the Holy Land for a year. In 1128 he was preparing to return to the East when he received an embassy from Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, who had no male heir to succeed him, offering his daughter Melisinda in marriage, with the right of eventual succession to the kingdom. Fulk accepted the offer, and in 1129 he came and married Melisinda, receiving the towns of Acre and Tyre as her dower. In 1131, when Baldwin died, he became King of Jerusalem. His reign is not marked by any considerable events; the kingdom which had reached its zenith under Baldwin II, and did not begin to decline till the capture of Edessa in the reign of Baldwin III, was quietly prosperous under his rule. In the beginning of his reign he had to act as Regent of Antioch, and provide a husband, Raymond of Poitou, for the infant heiress Constance, daughter of Bohemund. (Her 2nd husband was Raymond of Chatillion, from whom you descend, and which gives you Bohemond, her grandfather, Leader of the First Crusade.) Twice in Fulk's reign the Eastern Emperor John Comnenus appeared in northern Syria, in 1137 and 1142, but his coming did not affect the King, who was able to decline politely a visit which the Emperor proposed to make to Jerusalem. In 1143 he died, leaving two sons by Melisande, who both became Kings of Jerusalem, as Baldwin III and Almaric I. Fulk had continued the tradition of good statesmanship and sound churchmanship which Melisande's father and grandfather, Baldwin I and II had begun. His son by his first wife succeeded him as Count of Anjou.
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