Fulk IV, Count of Anjou

Fulk IV
Count of Anjou
Reign1068 – 14 April 1109
PredecessorGeoffrey III
SuccessorFulk V
Joint ruleGeoffrey IV, Count of Anjou (until 1106)
Born1043
Died14 April 1109
Spouses
Hildegarde of Beaugency
(m. 1068; died 1070)
Ermengarde de Bourbon
(m. 1070; div. 1075)
Orengarde de Châtelaillon
(m. 1076; div. 1080)
N de Brienne
(m. 1080; div. 1087)
(m. 1089; div. 1092)
IssueErmengarde, Duchess of Brittany
Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou
Fulk, King of Jerusalem
HouseHouse of Anjou
FatherGeoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais
MotherErmengarde of Anjou

Fulk IV (French: Foulques IV d'Anjou; 1043 – 14 April 1109), better known as Fulk le Réchin (Latin: Fulco Rechin), was the count of Anjou from around 1068 until his death. He was noted to be "a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits" by Orderic Vitalis, who particularly objected to his many women and his influential footwear, claiming he popularized the pigaches that eventually became the poulaine, the medieval long-toed shoe.