Family:
Children:
- Melisende Birth: Abt 955
Death: After 1031
- Burchard Birth: Abt 960
Bibliography
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de Saint-Phalle, Edouard, Les comtes de Gatinais aux X et XI siecles, in Settipani and Keats-Rohan, Onomastique et Parente dans l'Occident medieval, Uxford: Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre College, 2000. NYPL JFD 03-2300 (advance request needed). Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DeSaintPhalle Gatinais p[0-9]*].
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The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, An eperiment in a cooperative online database for scholarly medieval genealogy. Contributors and Editors: Stewart Baldwin, Todd Farmerie, Peter Stewart. Available at https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HenryII .*].
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Moriarty, G Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen Philippa. Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985. LDS Film#0441438. NYPL ARF-86-2555. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007905814?cat=66443. Also available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/66443. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p[0-9]*].
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Settipani, Christian, Counts of Anjou and their alliances X and XI centuries, in Family Trees and the Roots of Politics, K.S.B.Keats-Rohan, ed, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1997. NYPL APC97-11385. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Settipani Anjou p[0-9]*].
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Settipani, Christian, Les vicomtes de Chateaudun et leurs allies. In Settipani and Keats-Rohan, Onomastique et Parente dans l'Occident medieval, Oxford: Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre College, 2000. NYPL JFD 03-2300 (advance request needed). Early version in Keats-Rohan, Prosopon 10, Apr 1999, http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue10-4.pdf; but note that several of the conclusions from the 1999 preliminary version of the article were revised in the 2000 version. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Settipani Chateaudun [pIV]*].
- date:
- abt 930 [Ref: Settipani Chateaudun p261]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- occ 996 [Ref: Settipani Anjou p262]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
- names:
- (or parents-in-law) Gausfred & Hildegarde [Ref: HenryII geoff006
1/24/2011, HenryII hilde002 1/24/2011],
- child:
- [Ref: HenryII geoff006 1/24/2011, HenryII hilde002 1/24/2011, HenryII
melis000 1/27/2011, Moriarty Plantagenet p48, Settipani Anjou p262, Settipani
Chateaudun p253, Settipani Chateaudun p261]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
- child:
- Fulcois (#14312) [Ref: DeSaintPhalle Gatinais p245]
Research Notes:
Sgn de Nogent [Ref: Settipani Anjou p262, Settipani Chateaudun p253, Settipani
Chateaudun p261]
Seigneur of Nogent-an-Rotrou [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p49]
967-996: Sgn de Nogent [Ref: Settipani Anjou p262]
7 Jul 967: Rotrou appears as a witness on a false act of king Lothaire of
France 7 July 967 ["S. Rotrochi" Rec. actes Lothair & Louis V, 141 (#60), a
falsification of the 11th or 12th century, but perhaps based on an analysis of
an authentic act that had been lost]. [Ref: HenryII melis000 1/27/2011]
8 Sep 975: His first certain appearance is in an act of 8 September 975 ["S.
Roterici" Cart. S.-Benoit-sur-Loire, 1: 152 (#61)]. [Ref: HenryII melis000
1/27/2011]
5 Feb 978, 3 May 983: He then appears fairly regularly for the next two
decades, in charters of 5 February 978 ["Rotrocus" Cart. S.-Pere de Chartres,
1: 65 (#8)], 3 May 983 ["S. Rotrochii" Lex (1892), 122 (Pieces justificatives
#1)], before 986 ["Rotrocus" Cart. S.-Pere de Chartres, 1: 72 (#13)], 985 ["S.
Rotroci" ibid, 1: 79 (#18)], 12 February 996 ["Signum Ratroch." Lot (1903),
426], and 996x1001 ["S. Rotroci." Lex (1892), 133 (Pieces justificatives #7)].
[Ref: HenryII melis000 1/27/2011]
989: In addition to the above charters, in which Rotrou appears without
further designation, there are two charters which supply additional
information. One, dated 989, calls Rotrou a Norman ["S. Rotroci Normanni." Lex
(1892), 125 (Pieces justificatives #3)]. [Ref: HenryII melis000 1/27/2011]
Another, undated, is a donation by Rotrou (called "de Nogent" in the heading
of the charter) of property in Thivars, near Chartres, to Saint-Pere de
Chartres [heading: "De terra data in villa quae Thevas dicitur a Rotroco de
Nogiomo." body of charter: "In Dei nomine, Rotrocus seculari miliciae deditus
et Odonis comitis fidelitati devotus, ..." Cart. S.-Pere de Chartres, 1: 87
(#4)]. [Ref: HenryII melis000 1/27/2011]
In addition, two twelfth century references mention Rotrou in connection with
the Perche during the wars of Richard I of Normandy with Thibaud "le
Tricheur", count of Blois and Chartres. He is called count of the Perche by
Wace in his Roman de Rou ["Rotro, li quens del Perche" Wace, Roman de Rou,
4134 (1: 187)], and he is connected with the Corbonnais in the Norman
chronicle of Benoit de Sainte-More ["Rotrou e cil de Corbuneis" Benoit de
Sainte-More, 22564 (2: 244)]. [Ref: HenryII melis000 1/27/2011]
Rotrou is conjectured as the father of Melisende by Settipani [Settipani
(2000), 253]. Onomastically (and geographically if his connection to Nogent is
correct), he seems like a probable ancestor of the counts of Perche, and this
conjecture would be a good possibility if it was Melisende's husband who was a
child of viscountess Hildegarde. [Ref: HenryII melis000 1/27/2011]
Pedigree of Rotrou Seigneur Of Nogent-An-Rotrou
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