Melisende, Viscountess Of Châteaudun
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Melisende, Viscountess Of Châteaudun
Melisende (died before 1040), was the ruling Viscountess of Châteaudun in 1026–1030. She was the daughter of Hugues I, Viscount of Châteaudun, and Hildegarde of Perche. She inherited the fief from her brother in 1026. Very little is known about Melisende. The only written record concerns the donation of the Church of Champrond in Nogent-le-Rotrou (the former capital of Perche) in the first year of the reign of Henry I of France Henry I (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060) was King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. T ... by her son Geoffrey. Melisende married Fulcois, Count of Mortagne, son of Rotrou, Seigneur de Nogent. Melisende and Fulcois had two children: * Geoffrey II, Viscount of Châteaudun and Count of Perche * Hugues, married Béatrice de Mâcon, widow and heiress of the Count of Gâtinais. She was succ ...
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Counts Of Châteaudun
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992. p. 73. . The etymologically related English term "county" denoted the territories associated with the countship. Definition The word ''count'' came into English from the French ''comte'', itself from Latin ''comes''—in its accusative ''comitem''—meaning “companion”, and later “companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor”. The adjective form of the word is "comital". The British and Irish equivalent is an earl (whose wife is a "countess", for lack of an English term). In the late Roman Empire, the Latin title ''comes'' denoted the high rank of various courtiers and provincial officials, either military or administrative: before Anthemius became emperor in the West in 467, he was a military ''comes ...
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Hildegarde, Viscountess Of Châteaudun
Hildegarde of Perche (died 14 April 1005 or later) was daughter of Hervé I, Count of Perche, and his wife Mélisende. It is believed that she was a descendant of Adelaud de Loches, grandfather of Roscille de Loches, wife of Fulk I the Red, Count of Anjou. Hildegarde became Viscountess of Châteaudun upon the death of her husband Hugues I Viscount of Châteaudun. Hildegarde and Hugues had four children: * Hugues II, Viscount of Châteaudun and Archbishop of Tours The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Turonensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Tours'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The archdiocese has roots that go back to the 3rd cent ... * Adalaud, Seigneur de Château-Chinon * Melisende, Viscountess of Châteaudun, married Fulcois, Count of Mortaigne, son of Rotrou, Seigneur de Nogent. * Unnamed Daughter, married Albert II de la Ferté-en-Beauce, son of Albert I de la Ferté-en-Beauce and Godehildis ...
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Nogent-le-Rotrou
Nogent-le-Rotrou () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture and is located on the river Huisne, 56 kilometres west of Chartres on the RN23 and 150 kilometres south west of Paris, to which it is linked by both rail and motorway. It was the former capital of the Perche with the count living in the impressive medieval Château Saint-Jean which still dominates the town from a plateau of the same name. Economy The town lies within the Perche at the heart of a vast agricultural zone. Many jobs were therefore tied to agriculture, but the numbers declined sharply from the late 1970s with up to 5% of jobs being shed each year. Industrial employment owed much to the automotive sector which counted for almost 10% of jobs in the 1980s and 1990s and these were heavily linked to components manufacturer, Valeo. The company had a local workforce of over 1000 in 1999, but this too has been in decline as Valeo has delocalised to follow clients suc ...
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Perche
Perche () (French: ''le Perche'') is a former province of France, known historically for its forests and, for the past two centuries, for the Percheron draft horse breed. Until the French Revolution, Perche was bounded by four ancient territories of northwestern France: the provinces of Maine, Normandy, and Orléanais, and the region of Beauce. Afterwards it was absorbed into the present-day departments of Orne and Eure-et-Loir, with small parts in the neighboring departments of Eure, Loir-et-Cher, and Sarthe. Toponymy ''Perche'' is known by the following ancient Latin and French toponymic designations: ''saltus Particus'', ''silva Perticus'' before the 6th century, ''pagus quem Pert cnsem vocant'' and ''pagus pertensis'' in the 6th century, ''pagus Perticus'' no date and c. 815, ''Particus saltus'' in the 11th century, ''silva Perticus'' in 1045, '' ePerche'' in 1160 - 1174 and in 1308, ''Perche'' in1238, ''foresta de Pertico'' in1246,Nègre, Ernest (1990). ''Toponymie génér ...
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Henry I Of France
Henry I (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060) was King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. This is not entirely agreed upon, however, as other historians regard him as a strong but realistic king, who was forced to conduct a policy mindful of the limitations of the French monarchy. Reign A member of the House of Capet, Henry was born in Reims, the son of King Robert II (972–1031) and Constance of Arles (986–1034). In the early-Capetian tradition, he was crowned King of France at the Cathedral of Reims on 14 May 1027, while his father still lived. He had little influence and power until he became sole ruler on his father's death 4 years later. The reign of Henry I, like those of his predecessors, was marked by territorial struggles. Initially, he joined his younger brother Robert, with the support of their mother, in a revol ...
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Fulcois, The Count Of Perche
Fulcuich (Fulcois) Count of Mortagne, son of Rotrou, Seigneur de Nogent. It has been conjectured that Fulcuich's ancestor was Hervé I, Lord of Mortagne-au-Perche, through his supposed mother, Hildegarde de Mortagne et Perche, wife of Rotrou, who is a known daughter of Hervé. Fulcuich married Melisende, Viscountess of Châteaudun, daughter of Hugues, Viscount of Châteaudun, and Hildegarde of Perche. Fulcuich and Melisende had two children: * Geoffrey II Viscount of Châteaudun, I Count of Perche. * Hugues du Perche Hugues du Perche was a 10th-century French noble. He was the youngest son of Fulcois, the Count of Perche, probably of the family of viscounts from Châteaudun, and his wife, Melisende. He was also one of the first known ancestors in male line of ... Fulcuich was presumably succeeded as count by his son Geoffrey. Sources *Kerrebrouck, Patrick van, ''Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France, vol. 1: La Préhistoire des Capétiens''. 199 ...
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Geoffrey II, Viscount Of Châteaudun
Geoffrey II (died 1040), Viscount of Châteaudun and Count of Perche (as Geoffrey I), son of Fulcois, Count of Mortagne, and Melisende, Viscountess of Châteaudun. Some sources say that he became Viscount of Châteaudun following his uncle Hugues II’ appointment as Archbishop of Tours. At that point, he was probably under the regency of his mother. He broke with his relatives in the nobility of Blois and began hostilities against Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres. An unsuccessfully attempt to enlist the aid of Theobald III, Count of Blois, and Robert the Pious Robert II (c. 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious (french: link=no, le Pieux) or the Wise (french: link=no, le Sage), was King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty. Crowned Junior King in 987, he assisted h ... in his quest resulted in his excommunication in 1029. Only his building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Châteaudun redeemed him in the eyes of the church. In 1040, w ...
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Hugues Du Perche
Hugues du Perche was a 10th-century French noble. He was the youngest son of Fulcois, the Count of Perche, probably of the family of viscounts from Châteaudun, and his wife, Melisende. He was also one of the first known ancestors in male line of the Plantagenets. He married Béatrice de Mâcon, widow of Geoffroy I, Count Gatinais. She was the daughter of ''Albéric ou Aubry II de Mâcon, comte de Mâcon''. The children from this marriage were: * Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais. He was known by the nickname Ferréol ("Ironwood"). By his marriage with Ermengarde of Anjou, his descendants would not only become Count of Anjou, but King of Jerusalem and England as well. * Liétaud ( † 1050), Lord of Yèvres of 1028-1050. In the charter that his step-son Aubry, Count Gâtinais, and Francon, Bishop of Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi ...
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11th-century French People
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French Countesses
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11th-century Women Rulers
The 11th century is the period from 1001 ( MI) through 1100 ( MC) in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the 1st century of the 2nd millennium. In the history of Europe, this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages. There was, after a brief ascendancy, a sudden decline of Byzantine power and a rise of Normans, Norman domination over much of Europe, along with the prominent role in Europe of notably influential popes. Christendom experienced a formal schism in this century which had been developing over previous centuries between the Latin West and Byzantine East, causing a split in its two largest denominations to this day: Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. In Song dynasty China and the Islamic Golden Age, classical Islamic world, this century marked the high point for both classical History of science and technology in China, Chinese civilization, science and Technology of the Song dynasty, technology, and classical Islamic science, Early Islami ...
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