Fulco d'Este, I

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulco_I,_Margrave_of_Milan

Fulco I d’Este (died December 15 1128)[1][2] was the ancestor of the Italian line of the House of Este.

Contents

   1 Life

   2 Family

   3 External links

   4 References

Life

Fulco was a son of Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan and Garsende of Maine, the daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine. After his father's death in 1097, Fulco inherited the family's Italian possessions, which lay mainly in Veneto, around Mantua, Padua, Treviso and Verona, while his older half brother Welf inherited the lands north of the Alps. However, Welf did not accept this division, and unsuccessfully attempted to take these lands from Fulco after their father's death in 1097. The powerful Bavarian line of the family, the Guelphs, did not renounce these lands until the time of Henry the Lion in 1154. In 1070 Fulco's brother Hugh was invited to become Count of Maine, taking over the lands of their maternal grandfather, which had been under Norman or Angevin control since 1051, but had broken free.

Fulco's family took their name from the town of Este in Veneto. Fulco made the family's first connections to the nobility of Ferrara, which the Este came to rule a century later. Family

Fulco had six children:

   Azzo IV d'Este (died before 1145)

   Bonifacio I d’Este (died 1163)

   Fulco II d'Este (died before 1172)

   Alberto (died after 1184)

   Obizzo I d’Este (died December 25 1193)

   Beatrice (1075-1110) (possibly married in 1108 Alfonso VI of León and Castile)

Around 900 CE, a mysterious clan or tribe or family group appeared in southern Europe. They early on assumed the name of The House of Este'.

Elongated Head shapes are what we've already seen - sloping forehead,protuberance of the back of skull.

First recorded in Lombardy, they quickly seized positions of power in several other states, eventually becoming owners of Europe' - through their more recent descendants. And maybe of Russia too see Ivan VI.

The real origins of the Estes' could be Levantine (maybe as usurers), or Hunnish (below), or perhaps Scythians from beyond the Black Sea, as discussed by Hippocrates

-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/MODENA,%20FERRARA.htm#FolcoIdiedbef...

FOLCO [I] d'Este, son of son of ALBERTO AZZO II Conte di Luni [Este] & his second wife Gersende du Maine (-15 Dec 1128). His parentage is stated by Orderic Vitalis, who says that he was younger than his brother Ugo (see above), although the charters quoted below suggest that the reverse was the case. "Heinricus…rex" confirmed "nostri dilecti cancellarii Ugoni et Fulconi germanis Azonis marchionis filiis" in all their possessions "in comitatu Gauolli, Rodigum, Cederniano, Sarzano, Maretiniago…in comitatu [Pata]uiensi Este" by undated charter placed in the compilation with other charters dated 1077[40]. A charter dated 31 May 1079 records an agreement between the church of Verona and "marchionem Azonem et Ugonem et Fulconem germanos filios eiusdem marchionis Azonis"[41]. "Fulco filius Alberti marchionis qui Azo marchio" swore allegiance to "Ugo germano meo" by charter dated 6 Apr 1095, the text of which refers to their father as still living[42]. At Ferrara, Monselice and Montagnana. After his father's death in 1097, the succession of Folco and his brother Ugo in Italy was disputed by their older half-brother Welf [I] Duke of Bavaria who undertook an expedition to Italy to assert his position[43]. "Fulco marchio filius quondam Azonis marchionis habitator in castro…Montagnana" donated property to the monastery of S. Salvatore near Maratica by charter dated 31 Jul 1100[44]. "Domnus Fulco marchio" judged a dispute in favour of the monks of S. Zacheria by charter dated 31 May 1115[45]. "Fulco marchio filius cuiusdam Azonis" donated property to the monastery of S. Benedetto di Polirone, for the soul of "Azonis marchionis genitoris mei", by charter dated 10 Jun 1115, which names "Garsenda comitissa genitrice mea et Ugo germano meo"[46]. The Annales Veronenses record the death "XVIII Kal Jan" in 1128 of "Fulco marchio"[47].

m ---. The name of Folco's wife is not known. She may have been related to Beatrice: the testament of "Domina Beatrix", dated 13 Mar 1165, bequeathed property to "Donella filia mea, neptem meam Beatricem…neptem meam Mariam, Fulcolinum…et Ubertinum nepotes meos", referring to "filia mea defuncta", and to "Fulconi, Alberto et Opizoni marchionibus"[48].

 Folco & his wife had six children: