Geoffrey II, Count of Perche
Geoffrey II( died October 1100), Count of Mortagne and Count of Perche, son of Rotrou I, Viscount of Châteaudun, and Adelise de Bellême, daughter of Guérin de Domfront.
Geoffrey was Count of Mortagne and Seigneur of Nogent from 1060 to 1090, and Count of Perche from 1090 until his death.
Godffrey succeeded his father in 1080, receiving the Percheron fields of his father( Mortagne- au- Perche and Nogent- le- Rotrou), while his younger brother Hugues received Châteaudun.
A third brother, Rotrou, acquired by marriage the lordship of Montfort- le- Rotrou.
He participated in the conquest of England and fought at the Battle of Hastings.
For his service, William the Conqueror gave him a reward of significant property in England.
Geoffrey and his two brothers attacked Robert of Bellême, involving a land dispute.
Later he tried to attack Belleme again, with the help of Elias I, Count of Maine, but failed.
He devoted the rest of his life to religious pursuits, and founded the first leper colony in Perche.
Geoffrey married Beatrix de Ramerupt, daughter of Hilduin IV, Count of Montdidier, and Alice de Roucy.
Geoffrey and Beatrix had: Geoffrey was succeeded by his son Rotrou as Count of Perche upon his death.
Kaya Alp
Kaya Alp was, according to Ottoman tradition, the son of Kızıl Buğa and the father of Suleyman Shah, who was, in turn, the grandfather of Ertuğrul, and the great grandfather of the Ottoman Empire founder, Osman I.
Thomas, Count of Perche
Thomas (1195-20 May 1217), Count of Perche, son of Geoffrey III, Count of Perche, and Richenza-Matilda of Saxony, daughter of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, and Matilda.
Only seven when his father died, Thomas became Count of Perche under the regency of his mother and her new husband Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy.
In 1216, the English barons rebelled in the First Barons' War against John Lackland, and offered the English crown to Louis VIII the Lion, King of France.
The death of King John ended this arrangement and the crown went to Henry III, John's son.
In the end, Louis VIII renounced the English crown, but in the interim fought the forces of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
In the decisive Battle of Lincoln (1217), Thomas, the commander of the French forces, was killed.
Thomas married Hélisende Rethel, daughter of Hugh II, Count of Rethel, and Felicitas, daughter of Simon of Broyes.
This union produced no children.
His widow remarried Garnier de Traînel, Seigneur de Marigny.
Following Thomas' death in 1217, King Philip II of France would gain control of the castles of Moulins-la-Marche, Bonsmoulin, and Belleme, which had been contested since 1182.
Thomas’ uncle William, who was also Bishop of Chalons, succeeded him as the Count of Perche.
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
John Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Somerset and 1st Marquess of Dorset, later only 1st Earl of Somerset, (c. 1371 – 16 March 1410) was an English nobleman and politician.
He was the first of the four illegitimate children of John of Gaunt (1340-1399)
(third surviving son of King Edward III) by his mistress Katherine Swynford, whom he later married in 1396.
Beaufort's surname (properly "de Beaufortfrom Beaufort") probably reflects his birthplace at his father's castle and manor of Beaufort ("beautiful stronghold") (from 1688 "Montmorency-Beaufort") in Champagne, France, situated 100 miles east of Paris, 25 miles north-east of Troyes, and between the River Seine and River Marne.
The Portcullis heraldic badge of the Beauforts, now the emblem of the House of Commons, is believed to have been based on that of the castle of Beaufort, now demolished.
The Beaufort children were declared legitimate twice by parliament during the reign of King Richard II of England, in 1390 and 1397, as well as by Pope Boniface IX in September 1396.
Even though they were the grandchildren of Edward III and next in the line of succession after their father's legitimate children by his first two wives, the Beauforts were barred from succession to the throne by their half-brother Henry IV.
William II, Count of Perche
William II( died 1226), Count of Perche and Bishop of Châlons, son of Rotrou IV, Count of Perche, and Matilda of Blois- Champagne, daughter of Theobald II, Count of Champagne, and Matilda of Carinthia, daughter of Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia.
William began his career as treasurer and provost of the Church of St. Martin of Tours, and was elected Bishop of Chalons in 1215, consecrated in 1216.
The following year he succeeded his nephew Thomas, as Count of Perche, who was killed in the Battle of Lincoln.
As count- bishop, William was a valuable advisor to the Kings of France and was listed among those by Pope Honorious III to participate in the Albigensian Crusade.
His death in February 1226 would leave the question of the succession to the County of Perche unresolved for years.
Rotrou IV, Count of Perche
Rotrou IV( 1135- 1191), Count of Perche, son of Rotrou III, Count of Perche, and Hawise, daughter of Walter of Salisbury, and Sibilla de Chaworth.
Rotrou was from the House of Châteaudun and descended from the Viscounts of Châteaudun.
His mother was Hawise of Salisbury, a sister of Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury.
Patrick ’s sister Sibyll married John FitzGilbert, the Marshal of the Horses, whose son Henry was Bishop of Exeter and a knight in the service of Rotrou.
Upon the death of his father in 1144, Rotrou continued the fight against his archenemy, William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu and Lord of Alençon.
Not withstanding a long- running blood feud, his uncle Patrick had married William Talvas' daughter Adela as her second husband.
His mother Hawise and her second husband, Robert I of Dreux, served as regents at Perche until he reached the age of maturity.
From 1152, he fought with Louis VII the Younger against Henry II of England in an ineffective war that saw their troops routed, lands ravaged and property stolen.
He was forced to yield the communes of Moulins and Bonsmoulins to the crown England.
Nevertheless, a matrimonial alliance with the House of Blois consolidated the declining power of the Counts of Perche.
In 1189, Rotrou joined Philip II of France and Richard I the Lionheart in the Third Crusade.
He died sometime after the Siege of Acre in 1191.
In 1160, Rotrou married Matilda of Blois- Champagne, daughter of Theobald II, Count of Champagne, and Matilda of Carinthia.
Rotrou and Matilda had: Rotrou was succeeded as Count of Perche by his son Geoffrey upon his death.
Rotrou III, Count of Perche
Rotrou III( bef. 1080 – 8 May 1144), called the Great(" le Grand"), was the Count of Perche and Mortagne from 1099.
He was the son of Geoffrey II, Count of Perche, and Beatrix de Ramerupt, daughter of Hilduin IV, Count of Montdidier.
He was a notable Crusader and a participant in the" Reconquista" in eastern Spain, even ruling the city of Tudela in Navarre from 1123 to 1131.
He is commonly credited with introducing Arabian horses to the Perche, giving rise to the Percheron breed.
By his creation of a monastery at La Trappe in memory of his wife, Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, in 1122 he also laid the foundations of the later Trappists.
Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche
Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche (c. 1405 – 3 October 1431) was a member of the Beaufort family and an English commander during the Hundred Years' War.
He was the third son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Margaret Holland.
With his elder brother, Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset, Thomas joined in Henry V's 1419 campaigns in France.
In 1421, he accompanied the king's younger brother Thomas of Lancaster to the fighting in Anjou.
Lancaster was killed at the Battle of Baugé while Somerset and Thomas were captured.
Thomas was eventually released around 1427 in a prisoner exchange negotiated by his uncle, Cardinal Beaufort.
As an able male member of the Beaufort family, Thomas rejoined the fighting almost immediately.
He was granted the title Count of Perche in December 1427, his title being more a claim to land, rather than a recognized title since it was already held by the French Duke John II of Alençon.
This was part of a continuing attempt by Cardinal Beaufort to carve out estates for his nephews from conquered French land.
During the 1430 royal coronation expedition of Henry VI, Thomas was granted a retinue of 128 soldiers and 460 archers.
He commanded soldiers at a battle at La Charité-sur-Loire in late 1430 and died 3 October 1431 at the siege of Louviers, three weeks before the city's fall.
Perche died unmarried and childless.
Upon his death, his title was extinct.
Rotrou I, Viscount of Châteaudun
Rotrou I( died 1080), Viscount of Châteaudun and Count of Perche( as Rotrou II), son of Geoffrey II, Viscount of Châteaudun, and Helvise de Corbon( d. 1 March 1080), daughter of Rainard, Lord of Pithiviers.
He was noted in charters providing donations to the abbies of St. Vincent of Le Mans and St. Denis of Nogent- le- Rotrou.
Rotrou attempted to avenge the murder of his father by attacking Thierry, Bishop of Chartres, an act for which he was briefly excommunicated.
Rotrou fought William of Gouët, a follower of Stephen, Count of Blois,( and probably the father of William Gouët IV, husband of his granddaughter Isabelle of Champagne) for the strongholds of Perche- Gouët.
He also challenged Roger de Montgomerie and William the Conqueror, fighting in the insurrection of Robert Curthose against his father William.
Rotrou married Adelise( Adeliza) de Bellême, daughter of Guérin de Domfront.
Rotrou and Adelise had: Rotrou also had an illegitimate son named Robert “ Manda Guerra ”( d. after 1095).
Rotrou was succeeded as Viscount of Châteaudun by his son Hugues and, as Count of Perche, by his son Geoffroy.
Henry Krause
Henry J." Red" Krause, Jr.( August 28, 1913 – February 20, 1987) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Washington Redskins.
He played college football at St. Louis University.
He is the grandfather of Jennifer Krause
He is the great grandfather of Payton Hoeing

Question: Who is the paternal grandfather of Thomas Beaufort, Count Of Perche?
Answer: John of Gaunt