William Adelin had got into a small boat and could have escaped but turned back to try to rescue his half-sister, Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche, when he heard her cries for help.

Buckingham had been Lieutenant-General of Normandy between 1430 and 1432 and was created, in 1431, the Count of Perche, a province in English-occupied Normandy by King Henry VI.

Rothrude of Rouen had sent word of her plea to Stephen du Perche, another cousin.

He married before 1100 Margaret, daughter of Geoffrey II of Perche and Beatrix of Montdidier, and had the following children:

No matter the theory of origin, breed historians agree that the terrain and climate of the Perche area had the greatest influence on the development of the breed.

He had as appanage the counties of Valois, Alençon and Perche ( 1285 ).

In 1478, he was restored as Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche, titles which had been confiscated from his family after his father's conviction in 1474.

* Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche ( died in 1120 ), illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England by Edith

It is to be found on some publications emanating from the " Royalist agencies in England ", notably on the frontispiece of l ’ Almanach Royaliste pour l ' année 1795, troisième du règne de Louis XVII, à Nantes ( Londres ) et se trouve dans toutes les villes de la Bretagne, de la Normandie, du Poitou, du Maine, du Perche, de l ' Anjou, etc., et bientôt dans toute la France or, in English, " The Royalist Almanac for the year 1795, third year of the reign of Louis XVII, at Nantes ( ie London ) and found in all the towns of Britanny, Normandy, Poitou, Maine, Perche, Anjou, and soon throughout the whole of France ".

In January 2006 the population of Normandy ( including the part of Perche which lies inside the Orne département but excluding the Channel Islands ) was estimated at 3, 260, 000 with an average population density of 109 inhabitants per km², just under the French national average, but rising to 147 for Upper Normandy.

The following year he first joined Pembroke again on an expedition to relieve the fortress of Belle Perche and then accompanied the Black Prince on the campaign which resulted in the siege and sack of Limoges.

He prepared a piece called Ossigeno, but another song was chosen so fai Perche, which earned him third place after Riccardo Cocciante and Renato Zero.

The Percheron is a breed of draft horse that originated in the Huisne river valley in northern France, part of the former Perche province from which the breed takes its name.

The Percheron breed originated in the Huisne river valley in France, which arises in Orne, part of the former Perche province, from which the breed gets its name.

Other possibilities are captured Moorish cavalry horses from the Battle of Poitiers in 732 AD, some of which were taken by warriors from Perche.

The Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche may also have been a son ( legitimate or not ) of his.

In 1105 he was warring with Rotrou III, Count of Perche over a large portion of his Bellême lands and lost.

** Richenza ( 1172 – 1204 ), also called Matilda, married Godfrey, Count of Perche, and Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy

In the same month his household was founded, Louis was granted several titles by his grandfather, Louis XV: Duke of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Perche and Count of Senoches.

Until the king was declared adult in 1171 the government was controlled first by the chancellor Stephen du Perche, cousin of Margaret ( 1166 – 1168 ), and then by Walter Ophamil, archbishop of Palermo, and Matthew of Ajello, the vice-chancellor.

Charles was later given the Counties of Alençon, Perche, and Chartres by his brother, Philip IV of France.

At the last minute, William dashed back to rescue his illegitimate half-sister, the Countess of Perche ; when they and several others threw themselves into the small dinghy, it, " overcharged by the multitude that leapt into her, capsized and sank and buried all indiscriminately in the deep.

In addition, on several occasions he stood by her decisions when the questions were put to him, most notably during the events concerning Rotrou III of Perche when he refused to assert ecclesiastical sanctions against him.

It is known that during the 8th century, Arabian stallions were crossed with mares native to the area, and more Oriental horse blood was introduced by the Comte de Perche upon his return from the Crusades and expeditions into territory claimed by Spain.

Marin's nephew ( or cousin, depending upon the source ), Pierre Boucher, is commemorated by a statue on the Assemblée Nationale, the Provincial Legislature Building in Quebec City, and in a stained glass window in a church in Mortagne, Perche.

He was succeeded in Alençon by his son Charles, and in Perche by his son Robert.

The Earl of Somerset and his brother Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche were captured by Laurence Vernon ( later elevated to the rank of knight for his conduct ), the Earl of Huntingdon was captured by Sir John Sibbald, and Lord Fitz Walter was taken by Henry Cunningham.

The Tironensian Order or the Order of Tiron was a Roman Catholic monastic order named after the location of the mother abbey ( Tiron Abbey,, established in 1109 ) in the woods of Tiron ( sometimes Thiron ) in Perche, some 35 miles west of Chartres in France ).

* 1409 – John II of Alençon, Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche ( d. 1476 )

Among the slain crusaders were: Bishop Peter of Bethlehem, Stephen of Perche, brother to Count Geoffry, Renaud of Montmirail, brother of the Count of Nevers, Matthew of Wallincourt, Robert of Ronsoi, John of Friaise, Walter of Neuilli, Ferri of Yerres, John's brother, Eustace of Heumont and John's other brother, Baldwin of Neuville.

* John I, Count of Alençon, married Beatrix d ' Anjou, daughter of Elias II, Count of Maine and Philippa, daughter of Rotrou III, Count of Perche.

# Robert of Alençon ( 1344 – 1377 ), Count of Perche, married 5 April 1374 Jeanne, daughter of Viscount John I of Rohan

Coat of arms of the counts of Perche. John II of Alençon ( 2 March 1409, Château d ' Argentan – 8 September 1476, Paris ) was the son of John I of Alençon and his wife Marie of Brittany, Lady of La Guerche ( 1391 – 1446 ), daughter of John V, Duke of Brittany and Joan of Navarre.

Peter went with Stephen du Perche and Walter of the Mill to Sicily in 1166 and there became the tutor to King William II in 1167.

* 1167 – Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.

( 2002 ) Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: the County of the Perche, 1000 – 1226.

** Charles II of Alençon, Count of Alençon and Perche 1325 – 1346, Count of Joigny 1335 – 1336 ( d. 1346 )

* Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche ( c. 1405 – 1431 ).

* 1566 – 1584: Duke of Alençon ; Duke of Château-Thierry ; Count of Perche ; Count of Meulan ; Count of Mantes

He was Count of Alençon, Perche ( 1325 – 1346 ), Count of Chartres and Count of Joigny ( 1335 – 1336 ).

Coat of arms of the counts of Perche. Robert of Alençon ( 1344 – 1377 ) was the son of Charles II of Alençon and Maria de La Cerda y Lara.

* René of Alençon ( 1454 – 1492 ), who would regain his father's confiscated titles of Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche in 1478

Gilles de Souvré, Marquis de Courtanvaux, Baron de Lezines ( c. 1540 – 1626 ), marshal of France, belonged to an old family of the Perche.