Matilda (England) Perche (abt. 1086 - 1120)

Born about 1086 in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, , England [uncertain]

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Died 25 Nov 1120 at about age 34 in England [uncertain]

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Biography

Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I by Mistress (2)

From Medlands:

"She drowned off Barfleur, Normandy 25 Nov 1120. She is named as daughter of King Henry I by Orderic Vitalis, who specifies that the king "built up [her husband's] power by greatly augmenting his estates and wealth in England"[170]. Orderic also specifies that the king arranged her marriage at the same time as that of her half-sister Juliane[171]. The Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis refers to, but does not name, the wife of "Rotaldus comes" as "filiam regis Anglie", specifying that she had daughters[172]. Her father gave her lands in Wiltshire as her dowry[173]. "Rotrocus comes et Beatrix mater eius atque Mathildis uxor comitis" subscribed the charter dated to [1105/07] under which "Guillermus de Loiscel" made donations to Saint-Denis de Nogent[174]. The Continuator of Florence of Worcester names "…filia regis comitissa de Perceio…" among those drowned in the sinking of the White Ship[175]. William of Malmesbury also records that she drowned in the sinking of the “Blanche Nef [White Ship]”[176]. m (1103) as his first wife, ROTROU [I] Comte du Perche, son of GEOFFROY Comte du Perche & his wife Béatrix de Roucy (-killed in battle Rouen [20 Jan/23 Apr] or 6 May 1144)." (Ref: Project Medlands)

Sources

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 15

• Medieval Lands

• Wikipedia

• Source S2295565934 Ancestry Family Trees, Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Source: #S2295565934 Ancestry Family Trees
• Note: Contrary to the Ancestry tree above, her mother was a mistress called Edith, not the later Queen (who was born far too late).

• Yeatman, John Pym. The Early Genealogical History of the House of Arundel (Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1882) Page 16: "m. in 1102; she perished in the Blanch Nef in 1119"