Stephen du Perche
Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1166 to 1168 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Sicilian chancellor and archbishop. For his nephew, the crusader, see Stephen du Perche (died 1205).
Stephen du Perche (1137 or 1138 – 1169) was the chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily (1166–68) and Archbishop of Palermo (1167–68) during the early regency of his cousin, the queen dowager Margaret of Navarre (1166–71).
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Stephen is described by the contemporary chronicler Hugo Falcandus as "a son of the count of Perche", Rotrou III.[1] He was a young man when he entered politics, born at the earliest in 1137 or 1138. He may have been named after King Stephen of England, at the time ruling the Duchy of Normandy.[2]