father house death_date mother death_place title consort birth_date spouse issue image article_title name
fulk of jerusalem house norman dynasty '' -lrb- by first marriage -rrb- '' house of of metz '' -lrb- by second marriage -rrb- '' anjou '' -lrb- by birth -rrb- '' 1165 -lrb- aged c. 53 -rrb- ermengarde of maine abbey -lrb- now al-eizariya , west bank -rrb- of sts . mary and martha , bethany countess consort of flanders yes c. 1112 william 1123 ; ann . 1124 thierry , count of flanders '' m. 1139 ; wid . 1165 clito '' , count of flanders m. philip boulogne margaret i , countess of flanders gertrude , countess , of savoy matilda , abbess of fontevrault peter , bishop count of cambrai of flanders matthew , count of file : bruges basilica thierry of flanders.jpg sibylla of anjou
 sibylla of anjou
sibylla of anjou

sibylla of anjou -lrb- c. 1112 -- 1165 -rrb- was a countess consort of flanders .
she was the daughter of fulk v of anjou and ermengarde of maine , and wife of william clito and thierry , count of flanders .
she was the regent of flanders in 1147-1149 .
in 1123 sibylla married william clito , son of the norman robert curthose and future count of flanders .
sibylla brought the county of maine to this marriage , which was annulled in 1124 on grounds of consanguinity .
the annulment was made by pope honorius ii upon request from henry i of england , william 's uncle ; fulk opposed it and did not consent until honorius excommunicated him and placed an interdict over anjou .
sibylla then accompanied her widower father to the crusader kingdom of jerusalem , where he married melisende , the heiress of the kingdom , and became king himself in 1131 .
in 1139 she married thierry , count of flanders , who had arrived on his first pilgrimage to the holy land .
she returned to flanders with her new husband , and during his absence on the second crusade the pregnant sibylla acted as regent of the county .
baldwin iv , count of hainaut took the opportunity to attack flanders , but sibylla led a counter-attack and pillaged hainaut .
in response baldwin ravaged artois .
the archbishop of reims intervened and a truce was signed , but thierry took vengeance on baldwin when he returned in 1149 .
in 1157 she travelled with thierry on his third pilgrimage , but after arriving in jerusalem she separated from her husband and refused to return home with him .
she became a nun at the convent of sts .
mary and martha in bethany , where her step-aunt , ioveta of bethany , was abbess .
ioveta and sibylla supported queen melisende and held some influence over the church , and supported the election of amalric of nesle as latin patriarch of jerusalem over a number of other candidates .
sibylla died in bethany in 1165 .
