Gottfried II. (Perche)

Geoffroy II. (Ger. Gottfried , Eng. Geoffrey , † October 1100 ) was from 1060 to 1090 Count of Mortagne and Lord of Nogent , and from 1090 to 1100 Count of Le Perche .

Life

Geoffroy was a son of Rotrou II , Count of Mortagne and Vice-Count of Châteaudun , Lord of Nogent, and Adelise de Bellême, a daughter of Guérin de Domfront. He is mentioned in a document from his father in 1060 with his brothers Hugues, Rotrou and Fulcois. In 1066 he took part in the Norman conquest of England and fought at the Battle of Hastings . He is one of the 15 " proven companions " of William the Conqueror and was rewarded with domains in England by the new king.

In 1080 he followed his father in Mortagne and Nogent, while his younger brother received the vice-county of Châteaudun. Rotrou, the third brother, acquired the dominion of Montfort-le-Rotrou through marriage .

With his two brothers he attacked the domains of Robert de Bellême , Lord of Bellême and Alençon and plundered them. He later tried a repetition with the help of Élie de la Flèche , but failed. In 1090 he took on the title "Count of Perche" and thereby claimed to be superior to the rival Count of Perche-Gouët from the Gouët family .

Towards the end of his life he devoted himself to religious foundations and created the first leper colony in Perche.

marriage and family

Geoffroy II was married to Béatrice de Montdidier, daughter of Hilduin IV. De Montdidier , Count of Roucy and Ramerupt, and Alix de Roucy. Your children are:

• Rotrou III. the great († 1144), Comte du Perche
• Marguerite († after 1156); ∞ Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick († 1119) ( House of Beaumont ); her son was Rotrou , Archbishop of Rouen
• Juliane or Juliette du Perche († after 1132); ∞ Gilbert de l'Aigle , Seigneur de L'Aigle ( House l'Aigle ); her two sons, Geoffrey and Egenulf, died in 1120 when the White Ship sank ; her daughter Marguerite de L'Aigle was Queen of Navarre as the wife of García IV ( House of Jiménez )
• Mathilde; ∞ (1) Raymond I , Viscount de Turenne († around 1122) ( House Comborn ); ∞ (2) Guy IV de Lastours

literature

• Frank Barlow, William Rufus , University of California Press, 1983.
• Bernard Guenée, Les généalogies entre l'histoire et la politique: la fierté d'être Capétien, en France, au Moyen Age , Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, No. 3 (May-Jun.), 1978
• Kathleen Thompson, Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of the Perche ', 1000-1226 , The Boydell Press, 2002

Web link

• Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Perche ( online )