Perche-Gouët
The Perche-Gouët is a former French province about 130 kilometers southwest of Paris and northwest of Orléans. It stretches from Nogent-le-Rotrou and Montmirail to Illiers-Combray , Alluyes and Arrou and is therefore essentially in the Eure-et-Loir department , as well as in the Loir-et-Cher and Sarthe departments .
Neighboring regions were County Dunois in the east, County Maine in the west, County Perche in the north and County Vendôme in the south. The Perche-Gouët takes its name from Guillaume Gouët, who was lord of Montmirail, Authon and La Bazoche-Gouet in the first half of the 11th century and thus the first to form the region into one.
The province was divided into five baronies: Alluyes ( la Riche ), Brou ( la Noble ), Authon ( la Gueuse ), La Bazoche ( la Pouilleuse ) and Montmirail ( la Superbe ). The five baronies were ruled by the Gouët family in the 11th and 12th centuries , after which they were inherited by different families, mostly in the female line, until the 15th century.
literature
- De Chevigny: La Science des personnes de la Cour, de l'épée et de la robe. First edition 1706, last 2012
- Sebastien Le Pelletier, Xavier Le Person: Histoire de Sebastien Le Pelletier: prêtre ligueur et maître de grammaire ...
- Roger Reboussin: Ornithology du Perche-Gouët et du Val de Loire. In: Bulletin de la Société archéologique, scientifique et littéraire du Vendomois. No. 41, 1902.
Web links
- Le Perche-Gouët on terres-et-seigneurs-en-donziais.fr