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01 / Meaning & origin
Fulk is a masculine given name documented in English and German. English Wiktionary traces it to German.
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* As an English surname, variant of Foulk, itself related to the noun folk. * As a German surname, variant of Volk (from the noun Volk (“people”)), Falk (from Falke (“falcon”)).
łac. Fulcus
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04 / Through time
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Fulk— “people’s guard”
In the Foulques stage, this name was home, alternately with Geoffroi, by the counts of Anjou, and with the strange soubriquets of _Nerra_ and _Réchin_. One of these counts, the grandfather of our Henry II., became king of Jerusalem; but our English Angevins did not perpetuate the name; and though six Fulcos are recorded in Domesday, Fulk never took root in England, and is chiefly remembered because it belonged to Fulk Greville, the friend of Sydney. It was, in fact, with all…
In the Foulques stage, this name was home, alternately with Geoffroi, by the counts of Anjou, and with the strange soubriquets of _Nerra_ and _Réchin_. One of these counts, the grandfather of our Henry II., became king of Jerusalem; but our English Angevins did not perpetuate the name; and though six Fulcos are recorded in Domesday, Fulk never took root in England, and is chiefly remembered because it belonged to Fulk Greville, the friend of Sydney. It was, in fact, with all its varieties, chiefly Burgundian.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter IV (Heroic Names Of The Nibelung), Section VIII (Folker) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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Count of Anjou and historian, much condemned by Orderic Vitalis in his history of the era
Count of Anjou
Count of Anjou
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06 / Behind the facts
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