Hugues du Perche was a 10th-century French

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. He was the youngest son of Fulcois, the Count of Perche, probably of the family of

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, and his wife, Melisende. He was also one of the first known ancestors in male line of the

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. 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: *

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as well. * Liétaud ( † 1050), Lord of Yèvres of 1028-1050. In the charter that his step-son Aubry, Count Gâtinais, and Francon,

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signed May 26, 1028, he is quoted as a witness, along with his two sons Geoffroy and Liétaud. It is this act that evidences the second marriage of Beatrice with Hugues du Perche. Being from a vassal family of the counts of Blois, while the counts Gâtinais were faithful to the Capetian kings of France, the marriage took place probably during a period of rapprochement between the two families, during the marriage of King Robert II the Pious and Bertha of Burgundy, widow of Eudes I of Blois, between 996 and 1003.

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* : * Édouard de Saint Phalle, « Les comtes de Gâtinais aux Xe et XIe siècle » {{DEFAULTSORT:Hugues du Perche Medieval French nobility 10th-century French people