Rotrou Count of Perche III

• Preferred Name: Rotrou Count of Perche III^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Count of Perche, Seigneur of Belleme
  
• FSID: GJBX-5SR
  
• Death: 8 de maio de 1144
  
• Birth: antes 1080
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Rotrou III (bef. 1080 – 8 May 1144), called the Great (le Grand), was the Count of Perche and Mortagne from 1099. He was the son of Geoffrey II, Count of Perche, and Beatrix de Ramerupt, daughter of Hilduin IV, Count of Montdidier. He was a notable Crusader and a participant in the Reconquista in eastern Spain, even ruling the city of Tudela in Navarre from 1123 to 1131. He is commonly credited with introducing Arabian horses to the Perche, giving rise to the Percheron breed. By his creation of a monastery at La Trappe in memory of his wife, Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, in 1122 he also laid the foundations of the later Trappists.
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  Family
  Rotrou's first wife's name is unknown. They had one daughter:
  1. Beatrix, married Renaud IV, lord of Château-Gontier
  
  Rotrou's second wife was Matilda, illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England and one of his many mistresses, Edith. Matilda drowned in the wreck of the White Ship on 25 November 1120.
  They had two daughters:
  1. Philippa, married Elias II, Count of Maine
  2. Felicia
  
  Rotrou's third wife was Hawise, daughter of Walter of Salisbury and sister of Patrick, Earl of Salisbury.
  They had three sons:
  1. Rotrou IV, killed at the Siege of Acre
  2. Geoffrey (died after 1154)
  3. Stephen, Archbishop of Palermo
  
  Rotrou also had an illegitimate son by an unknown mistress:
  Bertrand, father of Gilbert, Count of Gravina
  
  Rotrou was succeeded as Count of Perche by his son of the same name.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotrou_III,_Count_of_Perche
  
  Rotrou of Perche II - Source Notes
  Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Vol. 1 pg 15-16; Vol. 2 pg 467; Vol. 3 pg 595
  Rotrou II the Great, Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme, son and heir of Geoffroi, Count of Mortagne and Perche, b
  
  Rotrou III (bef. 1080-20 January/6 May 1144)
  Rotrou III (bef. 1080-20 January/6 May 1144), called the Great (le Grand), was the Count of Perche and Mortagne from 1099. He was the son of Geoffrey II, Count of Perch, and Beatrix de Ramerupt, daugh
  
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  === Royal Ancestry #2 ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  "Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith:
  i. MAUD (or MATHILDE, MAHAUT) OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 (as his 1st wife) ROTROU II “the Great,” Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme, son and heir of Geoffroi, Count of Mortagne and Perche, by Beatrix, daughter of Count Hilduin, Count of Montdidier and Roucy. He was born about 1080. Her maritagium likely included the manors of Aldboume and Wanborough, Wiltshire. They had two daughters, Philippe and Felicie. During the 1st Crusade, he fought at the Siege of Nicaea in mid-1097. He commanded a division that broke out of Antioch in June 1098. He crusaded against the Muslims in Spain probably in 1108. In 1114 he aided his father-in-law, King Henry I, at the Siege of Belleme. At the request of his wife, Maud, a hide of land at Wanborough, Wiltshire was given to Lewes Priory. His wife, Maud, was drowned in the shipwreck of the White Ship 25 Dec. 1120. He was Governor of Tudela in Aragon and participated in campaigns in Aragon from 1123 until the mid-1130s. He returned to Perche by 1135. He married (2nd) before 1126 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPEE 2 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffroi, Rotrou (III) [Count of Perche], and Etienne [Archbishop-elect of Palermo]. After King Henry I's death in 1135, he and his nephew, Richer de l'Aigle, extorted the castles of Moulins and Bonmoulins as the price for their support for King Stephen. In 1139 he was taken in the English king's pay and defeated the unruly knights of Breteuil. ROTROU II, Count of Perche, died 6 May 1144 at the Siege of the Towe of Rouen, he then being in the service of Empress Maud and her husband, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. His widow, Hawise, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braille [see DREUX 6], and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Bellème, younger son of Louis VI, King of France, by Alix, daughter of Humbert II, Count of Savoy and Maurienne [see FRANCE 5 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Breteuil, Guy II, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I, seigneur of Torote, Châtellain de Noyon, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). His wife, Hawise, died in 1152. Robert I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Des Murs Hist. des Comtes du Perche de la Fam. des Rotrou (1856). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 173-176. Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 13 (1881): 255 (Genealogiæ Fusniacensis: "Rotaldus comes, prefati comitis filius, duxit filiam regis Anglie, de qua filiam procreavit. "). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 3940 (charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche, dated c.1119; charter witnessed by his sister [soror], Juliane, and her son, Richer), 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe). Money Hist. of the Ancient Town & Borough of Newbury (1887): 62 (Perche ped.). Boulais Receuil des Antiquitéz du Perche (1890). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 33-35. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 419 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "6 [Obiit] Rotrodos comes."). Lalizel Abbaye Royal d'Arcisses (Archives du Diocèse de Chartres 10) (1900): 3-10 (charters of Rotrou, Count of Perche). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 174-186; 12 (1983): 67-86. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Traditio 41(1985): 145-179. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.649. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Thompson Power & Border Lordship in Medieval France (2002). Hollister Henry I (2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth & Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 360-361. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Geoffrey Grossus Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron (2009): 71, footnote 1.
  Child of Maud (or Mathilde) of England, by Rotrou II of Perche:
  a. PHILIPPE OF PERCHE, married HELIE OF ANJOU, Count of Maine, younger son of Foulques V le Jeune, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, by his 1st wife, Eremburge, daughter and heiress of Hélie, Count of Maine. They had one daughter, Beatrix (wife of Jean I, Count of Alençon). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe [assensu generis mei Helie filieque mee Romanet de Beaune Geographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Vallée Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (1905): 30-31 ("... Helias vero ...comes Cenomannonun factus est, et xx annis adepto consulatu strenue potitis est. Heres quoque soceri sin Gervasii de Castro Lidi factus est, eujus filiam habuit, ex qua filiam nomine Eremburgem genuit, quam domino suo Fulconi, Andegavorum comiti, in matromonium copulavit … Uxor ejus ei filiam, Eremburgem nomine, peperit, quae, nubilibus annis, Fulconi, Andegavorum tunc comiti, nunc Ierosolymorum regi, nupsit et generosam sobolem genuit: Joffredum et Heliam, Mathildem et Sibyllam, quae filiis regum solemniter nupserunt"). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121."
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography #1 ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ROBERT I le Grand, Count of Dreux and Braine, seigneur of Brie-Comte-Robert, Chilly, Longjumeau, Savigny, and Torcy, and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Beanie, 5th son, born about 1123. He married (1st) in 1144 or 1145 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, widow of Rotrou II, Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme [see ENGLAND 2.i], and daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPÉE 2 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (or Alaidis, Alaydis) (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Bréteuil; Guy II de Châtillon, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I de Thourotte, seigneur of Thourotte, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). In 1149 he was involved in an aborted conspiracy to seize the throne. His wife, Hawise, died before 1152. He married (2nd) in late 1152 AGNES DE BAUDEMENT, lady of Fere-en-Tardenois, Nesle, Pontarcis, Longueville, Quincy, and Baudement, widow of Milon II, Count of Bar-sur-Seine (died 1 October 1151), and daughter and heiress of Guy (or Gui) de Baudement, seigneur of Braine, Seneschal of Champagne, by his wife, Alix. She was born about 1130. They had six sons, Robert [II] [Count of Dreux and Braine-sur-Vesle], Henri [Bishop of Orleans], Philippe [Bishop of Beauvais, Vidame of Gerberoy], Guillaume (seigneur of Brie-Comte-Robert, Torcy, and Chilly), Pierre, and Jean, and four daughters, Alix (wife of Raoul I, seigneur of Coucy), Isabelle (wife of Hugues III, seigneur of Broyes-Commercy and Châteauvillain), Massilie (or Béatrix, Basle) [nun at Channes Priory, afterwards at Wareville Priory], and Marguerite [nun at Charmes Priory]. In 1158 the Bishop of Soissons absolved him from an excommunication pronounced because of exactions against the priory of Councy. About 1177 another Bishop of Soissons lifted an interdict which the bishop had laid on Robert's land because of a dispute with the prelate. In 1170's he was involved in a dispute over property which he had unjustly taken from the abbey of Igny. In 1183 Pope Lucius III authorized the cathedral chapter at Chartres to excommunicate named barons, including Robert, for exactions in that diocese. ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. His widow, Agnes, founded Saint-Yved Abbey in Braine. She died 24 July 1204. Robert and his wife, Agnès, were buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Yved, Braine. In 1204 Hugues de Garlande, Bishop of Orleans, gave 20 sous of rent on the grange of Cravant to Sainte-Croix of Orleans to celebrate the anniversary of his kinswoman, Agnès, Countess of Braine.
  Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Moreri Le grand Dictionnaire historique 4 (1759): 247-250 (sub Dreux). L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 670-674. Histoire Litteraire de la France 14 (1817): 236-237 (biog. of Pierre de Celle, Bishop of Chartres: "Mais une chose a laquelle jusqu'a-présent personne n’a fait attention, c'est que cette cousine n'etait autre qu'Agnès de Braine, qui epousa en premieres noces Milon, comte de Bar-sur-Seine, et en secondes noces Robert de France, comte de Dreux, frère du roi Louis-le-Jeune, comme nous l'apprenons d'une lettre de Jean de Sarisbèry, parmi celles de saint Thomas de Cantorbèry, ou il est dit expressément que la comtesse de Dreux était cousine, cognata, de l'abbé de Saint-Rémi [Pierre de Celle]. Ainsi on peut assurer que la famille de notre auteur emit non-seulement noble, mais une des plus illustrés de Champagne. C'était celle d'André de Baudement, de Baldimento, senéchal de Champagne, ayeul de la comtesse Agnès."). Arbois de Jubainville Hirtoire des Ducs et des Comtes de Champagne 2 (1860): xxix-xxx (Agnes, Countess of Braine styled "kinswoman" [consanguinea] of Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne). Edouard Fontevrault et ses Monuments 1 (1873): 234. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18 (1879): 350 (Ex Chronico Fiscannensis Coenobii (sub 1204): "obiit Agnes Comitissa Branæ"). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, format is Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 482-483 (Count Robert [of Dreux] styled "uncle" [patruo] by King Philippe Auguste of France in 1185). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 41 45. Thillier and Jarry Cartulaire de Sainte-Croix d'Orléans (814-1300) (1906): 224 (Agnes, late Countess of Braine styled "kinswoman" [consanguinea] by Hugues [de Garlande], Bishop of Orleans in 1204), 210 (Manasses and Hugues styled nephews or kinsmen [nepotibus] of Hugues [de Garlande], Bishop of Orleans, in 1201). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 106 (Obituaire of Cathedral Church of Chartres: [23 Oct.] X kal. Ob[iit] Agnes, illustris comitissa de Breina."), 123 (Obituaire of Cathedral Church of Chartres: [23 Oct.] X kal. Anniv. Agnetis, comitisse de Brena."). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (ancestry of Robert de Dreux); 3 (1984): 63. Traditio 41 (1985): 145-179 ("Fifteen of his charters call him simply 'count'; six, 'count of Dreux'; three, 'count of Braine'; and four, 'count of Dreux and Braine.' ... Comment on Agnes [his 2nd wife] is required, because scholars are often misidentified her. She was the daughter and heiress of Guy, lord of Braine, who died in or before 1145, and granddaughter of Andrew de Baudemont, seneschal of Theobald II of Champagn (Theobald IV of Blois) and his wife Agnes of Braine. The combined evidence of the charter to Prémontré and the obituary notices from Saint-Yved (in Duchesne) and [charter] no. 2 below establishes the genealogy.") ("Renaud" or "Renaud Pauper" served as a witness to charters dated 1152 and 1155 as "cognatus" [kinsman] of Robert, Count of Dreux; author suggests Renaud may be the same person as Reynold de Courtenay, supposed son of Count Robert's uncle, Fleury of France). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (sub France); 3(1) (1984): 63 (sub Dreux). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XIII.147, XIV.241-XIV.252. Bautier & Dufour Recueil des Actes de Louis 14, Roi de France (1108-1137) 2 (1992): 364-365 (Robert, Count of Dreux and Braine, styled "brother" [frater] of Louis VI, King of France). Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l'Abbaye prémontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (Mémoires et Docs. de l'École des Chartes 49) (2000): 376 (24 October - Pie memorie Agnetis, illustris comitisse Drocarum et Brane, que … dedit 10 libras fortium"). Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 307-310. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Evergates Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 (2009): 216 (biog. of Agnes Baudement), 229-230 (biog. of Elizabeth/Isabelle Dreux, wife of Hugh III of Broyes). Online source: http:// www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/kapetinger dreux_grafen_von/familie_graf roberts_1/robert_i_der_grosse_graf von_dreux_+_1188.html.”
  
  === Was this name PERCHE' - later Anglicized ===
  Was this name PERCHE' - later Anglicized to PERCY?

• m. ABT 1100

• m. 1103

1. Philippa de Perche, b. 1110 in Mortagne-Au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France     d. 1133 in Brousse, France

• m. AFT 1120

1. Rotrou Count of Perche IV, b. 1135 in Rouen, Normandie, France     d. 27 JUL 1191 in Akko Kingdom of Jerusalem

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