Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche

Two of them were on the white ship.

Richard of Lincoln was a grown man his father valued for his courage, and Matilda was the Countess of Perche.

The fleet gathered at Barfleur on the Cotentin Peninsula, and a charter Henry issued there is dated November 21st, so the court had been sitting in the port for days.

While they waited, a ship's captain named Thomas Fitz Stephen asked for an audience with the king and offered him a sum of gold for the right to serve the royal family.