Geoffroy de Châteaudun, count of Mortagne

Count of Mortagne

Count of Perche

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: mid-October, 1099.

Place of Death:the Castle of Nogent-le Rotrou.

The date and place are given by Thompson (p. 52). Cawley gives 1100. The place is also given by Cokayne (p. 86).

Place of Burial: Nogent-le-Rotrou, the Priory of St. Denis.

The place is given by père Anselme (3:308), by Cawley, and by Cokayne (p. 86).

Relationships

Father: Rotrou de Châteaudun, count of Mortagne.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:307), by Cokayne (p. 86), by Thompson (p. 6), by Lesmesle (p. 135), and by LoPrete (p. 580).

Mother: Adelise de Bellême.

This relationship is given by Thompson (p. 6), and by LoPrete (p. 580). Père Anselme (3:307) and Cokayne (p. 86) simply give the name Adeline.

Spouse: Béatrix de Ramerupt.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:308), by Cokayne (p. 81, p. 88), by Thompson (pp. 47-48), and by LoPrete (p. 580).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Rotrou “le Grand” (died 1144), count of Perche, married (1) unknown; married (2) Mathilde, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, king of England; married (3) Hawise de Salisbury.

Marguerite married Henri de Beaumont, earl of Warwick.

Juliane married Gilbert, lord of l’Aigle.

Mathilde (before 1100 - 27 May 1143) married (1) Raymond, vicomte of Turenne; married (2) Guy “le Gros” de Lastours.

a daughter.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Cawley, Charles. “GEOFFROY de Châteaudun” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Lesmesle, Bruno. La société aristocratique dans le Haut-Maine (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1999).

LoPrete, Kimberly A. Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067 - 1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).

Thompson, Kathleen. Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of the Perche, 1000-1226,(The Boydell Press, 2002).