Eudes II, count of Blois

Other name forms: Odo.

Count of Blois, Chartres, Tours (996-1037)

Count of Troyes, Meaux (1021-1037)

Events

Date of Birth: about 982 or 983.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley. Glocker (p. 324) gives about 990.

Date of Death: 15 November 1037.

Place of Death: Commercy (killed in battle).

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: Eudes I, count of Blois.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:836), by Hlawitschka, by Glocker (p. 324), and by Tanner.

Mother: Berthe de Bourgogne.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:836), by Hlawitschka, by Glocker (p. 324), by Le Jan (p. 377), and by Tanner.

Spouse: Matilda of Normandy. Married in 1003 or 1004.

This relationship is given by Glocker (p. 324), by Bachrach (p. 267), and by Saint-Phalle.

Spouse: Ermengarde of Auvergne. Married 1005.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:837), by Glocker (p. 324), by LoPrete (p. 576), and by Tanner. Baldwin discusses her possible parentage.

Children (by Ermengarde):

(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 III (about 1010 - September 1089), count of Blois, married (1) Gersende du Maine; possibly married (2) Gundrada; married (3) Adela.

Étienne (19 May, about 1048), count of Troyes, married Adela.

Berthe (died April 1085) married (1) Alain III, duke of Brittany; married (2) Hugues (IV), count of Maine.

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).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Adélaïde/Alix (Adelaidis, Alaiz, Adelax, Alaicis) alias Blanche (Blanca, Candida) of Anjou” in The Henry Project. (2012)

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

Evergates, Theodore. The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Hlawitschka, Eduard. Vom Frankenreich zur Formierung der europäishen Staaten- und Völkergemeinschaft 840-1046: Ein Studienbuch. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1986).

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

LoPrete, Kimberly A. Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c. 1067 - 1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).

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).