A reformer and parish priest who preached in support of the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204).
It is unknown whether Fulk waited for a papal commission by letter or from the legate Peter Capuano before beginning to recruit for the crusade in 1198. Pope Innocent III later granted Fulk the right to commission other preachers, who included Eustace of Saint-Germer-de-Flay and (despite initial resistance of their order’s general chapter), the Cistercian abbots of Vaux-de-Cernay, Perseigne, and Cer- canceaux. Fulk and his fellow preachers successfully recruited noblemen from the Ile-de-France, Champagne, Flanders, and Brabant, in addition to hosts of commoners whose personal participation they intended to subsidize with offerings collected from the devout. After Fulk’s untimely death, these funds seem to have been transferred to the leaders of the crusade or sent to the Holy Land, leading to allegations that they had been embezzled by Fulk or his collaborators.