Eudes I, count of Blois

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 995.

Place of Death: Châteaudun.

The date and place are given by Cawley.

Place of Burial: Tours, Abbaye de Saint-Martin, Marmoutier.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Thibaut I “le Tricheur”, count of Blois.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:836), by Bachrach (p. 267), by Saint-Phalle, by Le Jan (p. 450), and by Tanner.

Mother: Luitgardis de Vermandois.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:836), by Bachrach (p. 267), by Saint-Phalle, by Le Jan (p. 450), and by Tanner.

Spouse: Berthe de Bourgogne.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:836), by Bachrach (p. 267), by Saint-Phalle, by Le Jan (p. 450), and by Tanner.

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.)

Thibaut II (about 980 - 11 July 1004), count of Blois.

Eudes II (about 982 - 15 November 1037), count of Blois, married (1) Mathilde de Normandie; married (2) Ermengarde d’Auvergne.

Agnès married Guy, vicomte of Thouars.

Thierry.

Landry.

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).

Bachrach, Bernard S. Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count, (University of California Press, 1993).

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

Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VII^e - X^e siècle): essai d’anthropologie sociale (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).

Saint-Phalle, Edouard de. “Les comtes de Gâtinais aux X^e et XI^esiècles” in Onomastique et Parenté dans l’Occident médiéval (2000) pp. 231-246.

Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).