Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais

Geoffrey II, de Château-Landon (born c. 1000 – died 1043–46) was a French nobleman and the Count of Gâtinais.

Career

Geoffrey was the son of Geoffrey, Count of Gâtinais, and Beatrice of Macon. She was the daughter of Aubry II of Mâcon.[1] He was born about the year 1000.[2] The Gâtinais was a key district on the northeast border of Orléans and Château-Landon was the capitol.[3] c. 1035 he married Ermengarde-Blanche of Anjou, daughter of Fulk III Nerra.[4] Together they were the ancestors of the House of Plantagenet.[4] Geoffrey died about 1043–1046.[5] After Geoffrey's death Ermengarde-Blanche married secondly Robert I, Duke of Burgundy.[6]

Family

Together, Geoffrey and Ermengarde had:

References
  1. Kate Norgate, England Under the Angevin Kings, Vol. I (London; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1887), p. 250
  2. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Family Trees and the Root of Politics; A Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1997), p. 265
  3. Kate Norgate, England Under the Angevin Kings, Vol I (London; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1887). p. 249
  4. 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
  5. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 116
  6. 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
  7. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln|Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 82
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