Hildegarde of Perche (died 14 April 1005 or later) was daughter of
Hervé I, Count of Perche Hervé I (died after 25 June 955), Count of Perche and Mortagne.
Hervé appears several times between 941 and 946 in the entourage of Hugh the Great and is likely ''Hervei Comiti Mauritianae'' cited in a transaction dated June 24, 955.
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, 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
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* Adalaud, Seigneur de Château-Chinon
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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 de Bellême.
Hildegarde was succeeded by her son Hugues I as Viscount of Châteaudun when he reached the age of maturity.
Sources
* Kerrebrouck, Patrick van., ''Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France, vol. 1: La Préhistoire des Capétiens''. 1993.
* Tout, Thomas Frederick, ''The Empire and the Papacy: 918-1273, Periods of European History'', London: Rivingtons, p. 279.
* Bury, J. B. (Editor), ''The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, Germany and the Western Empire'', Cambridge University Press, 1922
* Reuter, Timothy (Editor), ''The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, 900-1024'', Cambridge University Press, 1999
Medieval Lands Pronect, Perche, Mortagne
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hildegarde, Viscountess of Chateaudun
11th-century French people
11th-century women rulers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
Viscounts of Châteaudun
10th-century women rulers