Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou

He was popular with the Church and grew a reputation for curbing tyranny and opposing his violent father, who, according to Orderic Vitalis, enjoyed pillaging and terrorising his subjects.His father tried to disinherit him in favour of Fulk the Younger, his son by his fourth wife, Bertrada of Montfort.Geoffrey was besieging a rebellious baron in the castle of Candé when, on 19 May 1106, he was struck and killed by an arrow while going to negotiations.The Chronica de gestis consulum Andegavorum attributed this assassination to Fulk and Bertrada, and praised the late count as "an admirable man, distinguished in justice, a cultivator or the whole of goodness, who was a terror to all his enemies."[6] The Annales Vindocinenses call him "a subduer and conqueror of tyrants [perhaps his father], protector and defender of churches.
Geoffrey IV (disambiguation)Count of AnjouFulk IVOrderic VitalisFulk the YoungerBertrada of MontfortBishop of AngersMaurice of CraonPhilip I of FranceencomiumCandéChronica de gestis consulum AndegavorumAnnales VindocinensesGeoffrey II of AnjoucartularyKate NorgateincipitelegiacdistichsLouis HalphenRené PoupardinBachrach, Bernard S.Geoffrey II, Count of GâtinaisFulk III, Count of AnjouErmengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy