Geoffrey II, de Château-Landon (died 1043 or 1046) was the Count of
Gâtinais
Gâtinais () or Gâtine () was a province of France, containing the area around the valley of the Loing, corresponding roughly to the northeastern part of the département of Loiret, and the south of the present department of Seine-et-Marne. U ...
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[John Burke & Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage'', Edited by Peter Townsend (Burke's Peerage Ltd., London, 1963)p. xciii][Detlev Schwennicke, '' Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten'', Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 82] He was the son of
Hugues du Perche, Count of Gâtinais, by Béatrice de Mâcon, the daughter of Aubry II de Mâcon.
[Kate Norgate, ''England Under the Angevin Kings'', Vol. I (Macmillan and Co., London, New York, 1887), p. 250] About 1035 he married
Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy
Ermengarde of Anjou ( – 18 March 1076), known as ''Blanche'', was a Duchess consort of Burgundy. She was the daughter of Count Fulk III of Anjou and Hildegarde of Sundgau. She was sometimes known as ''Ermengarde-Blanche.''
She married Geoffr ...
, daughter of
Fulk III, Count of Anjou.
[Jim Bradbury, 'Fulk le Réchin and the Origin of the Plantagenets', ''Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. Allen Brown'', Ed. Christopher Harper-Bill, Christopher J. Holdsworth, Janet L. Nelson (The Boydell Press, 1989), p. 27] After Geoffrey's death she married secondly
Robert I, Duke of Burgundy
Robert I (1011 – 21 March 1076), known as the Old or the Headstrong (), was Duke of Burgundy from 1032 to his death. Robert was the third son of King Robert II of France and Constance of Arles. His brother was Henry I of France.
Life
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Issue
Together, Geoffrey and Ermengarde had:
*Hildegarde de Château-Landon, married c.1060 to
Joscelin I, Lord of Courtenay;
his famous son was
Joscelin I, Count of Edessa
Joscelin I (died 1131) was a Frankish nobleman of the House of Courtenay who ruled as the lord of Turbessel, prince of Galilee (1112–1119) and count of Edessa (1118–1131). The County of Edessa reached its zenith during his rule. Captured ...
by a different partner.
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Geoffrey III (1040 - 1096)
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Fulk IV (1043 - 1109)
References
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11th-century French nobility
1040s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain