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Fulk IV of Anjou
Count of Anjou and historian, much condemned by Orderic Vitalis in his history of the era
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Count of Anjou and historian, much condemned by Orderic Vitalis in his history of the era
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Fulk IV, better known as Fulk le Réchin, 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.
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