Alix de Blois

Also known as Adela and Alix de Champagne.

Events

Date of Birth: about 1145.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Werner

Date of Death: 4 (or 13 June) 1206.

Place of Death: Paris.

The date and place are given by Cawley. Werner gives 4 June 1206.

Place of Burial: church of the Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny, Yonne.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Thibaut IV “le Grand”, count of Blois.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:841), by Werner, and by Keats-Rohan (p. 223).

Mother: Mathilde von Sponheim.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:841), by Werner, and by Keats-Rohan (p. 223).

Spouse: Louis VII “le Jeune”, king of France. Married in 1160.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:841), by Werner, and by Keats-Rohan (p. 223).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Philippe II “Auguste” (21 August 1165 - 14 July 1223), king of France, married (1) Isabelle de Hainaut; married (2) Ingebjörg of Denmark; married (3) (bigamously) Agnes von Andechs-Merano.

Agnès married (1) Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor; married (2) Andronikos I, Byzantine emperor; married (3) Theodoros Branas, duke of Adrianople.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Cawley, Charles. ALIX de Blois in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Sirjean, Gaston. Encyclopédie généalogique des maison souveraine du monde: Première Partie No. 3 Les Capétiens Directs (1959).

Werner, K.F. "Adela von Champagne" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).