Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais

Geoffrey II, de Château-Landon (born  – 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.Kate Norgate, England Under the Angevin Kings, Vol. I (London; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1887), p. 250 He was born about the year 1000.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 The Gâtinais was a key district on the northeast border of Orléans and Château-Landon was the capitol.Kate Norgate, England Under the Angevin Kings, Vol I (London; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1887). p. 249  he married Ermengarde-Blanche of Anjou, daughter of Fulk III Nerra.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 Together they were the ancestors of the House of Plantagenet. 
Geoffrey died about 1043–1046.Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 116 After Geoffrey's death Ermengarde-Blanche married secondly Robert I, Duke of Burgundy.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

 Family 

Together, Geoffrey and Ermengarde had:

 Hildegarde de Château-Landon, she married  c.1060 Joscelin I, Lord of Courtenay.Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln|Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 82 
Geoffrey III of Anjou.
Fulk IV, Count of Anjou

References

Category:1040s deaths
Category:French nobility
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