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==Early life== Fulk was born at [[Angers]], between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count [[Fulk IV of Anjou]] and [[Bertrade de Montfort]].{{sfn|Hollister|2001|p=266}} In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband, and bigamously married King [[Philip I of France]]. Fulk was thus raised at least partly at the French court. By 1106 Fulk's father had been forced to yield control of the county to his eldest son, Fulk's half-brother [[Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou|Geoffrey IV]]. But Geoffrey was killed that year by a crossbow bolt outside the castle of Candé, in theory returning his father to power and making Fulk the next in the line of succession. The chronicler Orderic Vitalis claims that the young Fulk was forced to do homage for Anjou to Philip I of France and was subsequently captured and held prisoner for a year by Duke [[William IX of Aquitaine]]. The earliest version of the ''[[Chronica de gestis consulum Andegavorum|Chronicles of the Deeds of the Counts of Anjou]]'' (''Chronica de gestis consulum Andegavorum)'' may have been written in response to this crisis.{{Sfn|Paul|2015|p=139-160}}
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