Geoffrey II, de Château-Landon (died 1043 or 1046) was the Count of Gâtinais.[1][2] He was the son of Hugues du Perche, Count of Gâtinais, by Béatrice de Mâcon, the daughter of Aubry II de Mâcon.[3] About 1035 he married Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy, daughter of Fulk III, Count of Anjou.[2][4] After Geoffrey's death she married secondly Robert I, Duke of Burgundy.[1]
Issue edit
Together, Geoffrey and Ermengarde had:
- Hildegarde de Château-Landon, married c.1060 to Joscelin I, Lord of Courtenay;[4] his famous son was Joscelin I, Count of Edessa by a different partner.
- Geoffrey III (1040 - 1096)[2][4]
- Fulk IV (1043 - 1109)[2][4]
References edit
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b c d Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 82
- ^ Kate Norgate, England Under the Angevin Kings, Vol. I (Macmillan and Co., London, New York, 1887), p. 250
- ^ a b c d 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