Gâtinais
The Gâtinais is a landscape, a plateau in central France between the landscapes of Beauce and Brie , bounded by the rivers Essonne , Loire , Yonne and Seine . The Loing River divides it into the Gâtinais français in the east - named after the historic province of Île-de-France - and the Gâtinais orléanais in the west, which is named after the Orléanais .
The Gâtinais français corresponds to today's Arrondissement Fontainebleau in the department of Seine-et-Marne , the Gâtinais orléanais corresponds to the Arrondissement Montargis and parts of the Arrondissement Pithiviers in the department Loiret . Parts of the Gâtinais français today form the Gâtinais français Regional Nature Park .
The historic capital of the Gâtinais was Château-Landon , after the division of the landscape between the provinces mentioned, it was Montargis (for the west) and Nemours (for the east). In the early medieval Frankish empire, the Gâtinais was known as pagus wastinensis (or vastinensis) and was one of the five pagi of the Archbishop of Sens .
Gottfried II. Ferréol married around 1035 Ermengarde, a daughter of Count Fulko III. Nerra of Anjou . When his son Gottfried II Martel died in 1060 without heirs, the county of Anjou passed to the sons of Ermengarde. Gottfried Ferréol thus became the progenitor of the second count's house of Anjou ( see: House of Château-Landon ) and the descending English royal houses Plantagenet , Lancaster and York .
Counts des Gâtinais were:
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Gottfried I († after 991)
- Wal [terius], mentioned in 997, probably a brother of Gottfried I and identical to Walter II of Vexin-Valois
- Aubry († 1028/30), son of Gottfried I.
- Gottfried II. Ferréol († 1042/45), his half-brother
- Gottfried III. the bearded one († 1097), his son, Count of Anjou 1060
- Fulko the brawler († 1109), his brother, Count of Anjou in 1068
Fulko ceded the Gâtinais to the king, and the landscape has belonged to the French crown estate ever since.