Perche

Le Perche is a landscape in the north of France, situated in the west of the Paris Basin. It comprises the eastern part of the Norman département Orne ( Basse -Normandie ) and the west of the department of Eure -et -Loir ( Centre region ). South of this area also adjoin the landscapes Le Perche and Le Perche Gouët Vendômois. The main town of Le Perche Mortagne -au -Perche.

Le Perche is a hill country whose highest peak reaches 301 m, used to be a forest land, the eponymous sylva Pertica, now a by hedges ( bocage ) structured grazing area in which the earlier major horse breeding has now been replaced by dairy farming and pig breeding, while industrialization here hardly took place. Today, large parts of Le Perche are integrated in the Regional Natural Park of Perche.

The inhabitants of the region are the Percheron, not to be confused with the eponymous horse breed is also located there.

History

As early as the Carolingian period the Perche was established in a county. In the mid-10th century the country was, however, the scammers of Blois and the Norman Duke Richard the Fearless hotly contested between the Count Theobald. As a result, the country was politically divided. The western part remained under Norman influence, where the Lords of Bellême established. The eastern part of Nogent but remained under the control of Count Theobald the scammers.

Count Theobald sat in the Castle of Nogent Rotrou I. as his vassal lords a. Meanwhile, heiress married the masters of the north of Nogent castle below Mortagne ( the Lords of Mortagne are temporarily, but not consistently referred to as Earl ), whereby most of the Perche was summarized in a family. Through inheritance was briefly the viscounty Châteaudun ( Dunois ) are gained, but soon fell out through inheritance. The lords of Nogent -Mortagne were in the 12th century in a constant feud with the Lords of Bellême. Gottfried II led to his tenure as first the title of Count of Perche ( comte du Perche ), for his successors led.

After the Graf house was extinct in 1227, Perche was transferred to the Domaine royal. The Prince Peter ( son of King Louis IX. ) Received Perche and Alençon in 1269 the county as appanage, which was brought back in 1283 but the Domaine royal. From 1293 the Perche the collateral line of the house of Valois of Alencon, which became extinct in 1525 with Duke Charles IV of Alençon belonged.

Lords of Mortagne

• Hervé I., Graf, M. de Mortagne to 941/955
• Hervé II, Count, Lord of Mortagne to 974/980

Lords of Nogent

• Rotrou I, Count of Nogent, to 960/996
• Mélisende, Countess of Nogent, whose daughter

• Fulcois, 1000

Fulcois was probably a son of Viscount Godfrey I of Châteaudun and nephew of Hervé II of Mortagne. He went up to the legacy of his uncle, while in Châteaudun his older brother Hugo I succeeded. By Fulcois marrying Mélisende he united Mortagne and Nogent in his family.

Lords of Mortagne and Nogent (House Châteaudun )

• Godfrey I († 1039/40 ), lord of Nogent and Mortagne, probably son of Fulcois and Mélisende (as Gottfried II, Viscount of Châteaudun )
• Hugh I († 1042/44 ), lord of Nogent, Count of Mortagne, whose son (as Hugh II, Viscount of Châteaudun )
• Rotrou II († probably 1080 ), lord of Nogent, Count of Mortagne, whose brother (as Rotrou I, Viscount of Châteaudun )

Count of Le Perche

House Châteaudun

• Gottfried II († 1100 ), Lord of Nogent, Count of Mortagne, in 1090 after the first Earl of Le Perche, whose son ( Châteaudun receives his brother Hugo III. )
• Rotrou III. the Great ( † fallen before Rouen in 1144 ), Count of Le Perche
• Stephen of Perche ( * after 1137, † 1169 ), chancellor of Sicily and Elektbischof of Palermo, probably son of Rotrou III.
• Rotrou IV († 1191 ), Count of Perche, son of Rotrou III.
• Stephen of Perche († 1205 ), Crusaders, son of Rotrou IV
• Gottfried III. († 1202), Count of Perche, son of Rotrou IV
• Thomas ( 1217 † fallen before Lincoln), Count of Perche, son of Godfrey III.
• Wilhelm ( † 1226 ), Bishop of Châlons, 1217 Count of Le Perche, brother of Godfrey III.

Capetian

• Peter I, Count of Perche 1269-1284

House of Valois - Alençon

• Charles I de Valois, Count of Perche 1293-1325
• Charles II, Count of Alençon and Le Perche in 1326, † 1346.
• Robert, † 1377, 1361 Count of Perche, son of Charles II
• Peter II (Pierre II ), † 1404 1361 Count of Alençon, 1377 Count of Porhoet and Le Perche, whose brother
• John I the Wise ( Jean I. le Sage ) (X in 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt ) 1396 Earl of Le Perche, 1404 and 1414 Count Duke of Alencon, whose son
• Pierre ( * 1407, † 1408 ), Count of Perche, whose son
• René, † 1492 1476 Duke of Alençon, Count of Perche, whose brother
• Charles IV (Charles IV ), † 1525, probably in 1489, Count of Perche, 1492 Duke of Alençon, Count of Armagnac 1497 sovereign and Rouergue, Count of Rodez, in 1517 the Duke of Berry, whose son