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Rotrou I, Viscount of Châteaudun

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At the death of Geoffrey II, his elder son Hugh became Viscount of Châteaudun, while Rotrou probably inherited the family interests around Nogent-le-Rotrou. After his brother's death, he concentrated the family lands and, by the late 1050s, he was a count, with a centre of power around Mortagne.
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Rotrou was quite successful, and able to make substantial donations to religious houses, including St.Vincent of le Mans and his father's foundation of Saint Denis at Nogent-le-Rotrou, where he was able to finish the church.  
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in the invasion of England.  Moreover, in 1078, William paid Rotrou a subsidy, and Rotrou supported him on the siege of Remalard, where the supporters of his rebel son,
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in his attack on the Norman outpost of Thimer. However, by 1066, he had become closer to William, the Norman Duke, which can be inferred from the participation of his son
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These northern dominions probably came to him from his wife, Adelise de Domfront, as part of a settlement that divided the Bellême inheritance between her cousin
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Rotrou was succeeded as Viscount of Châteaudun by his son Hugues and, as Count of Perche, by his son Geoffroy.
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Rotrou married Adelise (Adeliza) de Domfront, daughter of Warin de Domfront and granddaughter of
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Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of the Perche, 1000-1226
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After the death of William of Gouët in the late 1050s, Rotrou, with the help of
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Rotrou attempted to avenge the murder of his father by attacking Thierry,
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Rotrou de Châteaudun (d. after 1110), Lord of Montfort-le-Rotrou
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Index

Viscount of Châteaudun
Count of Perche
Geoffrey II, Viscount of Châteaudun
Mabel
Roger de Montgomery
Roger de Montgomery
Henry I of France
Geoffrey
Robert Curthose
William of Bellême
Geoffrey II
Béatrix de Montdidier de Roucy
Hugh IV, Viscount of Châteaudun
Bishop of Chartres




Thompson 2002b


Thompson 2002b
Thompson 2002b
Thompson 2002b
Thompson 2002a



Thompson 2002b
"Les premiers temps de Saint-Denis de Nogent-le-Rotrou et leurs réécritures"

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