Marie of Blois

Countess of Boulogne

Events

Date of Birth: about 1136.

Place of Birth: Blois.

The date is given by Cawley. The place is given by Thompson

Date of Death: 1182.

Place of Death: the Benedictine nunnery of St Austrebert, near Montreuil.

The date and place are given by Thompson.

Place of Burial: the Benedictine nunnery of St Austrebert, near Montreuil.

The place is given by Thompson.

Relationships

Father: Stephen I, king of England.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:722), by Keats-Rohan (p. 224), by Crouch (2002, p. 281), and by Thompson.

Mother: Matilda of Boulogne.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:722), by Crouch (2000, p. 356), and by Thompson.

Spouse: Matthew of Flanders.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:722), by Keats-Rohan (p. 224), by Crouch (2002, p. 282), and by Thompson.

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.)

Ida (about 1160 - 21 April 1216) married (1) Matthew; married (2) Gerard of Guelders; married (3) Berthold IV, duke of Zähringen; married (4) Renaud de Dammartin.

Matilda (1170 - 16 October 1210) married Henry I “the Courageous”, duke of Lower Lorraine, duke of Brabant.

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. “MARIE de Blois” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Crouch, David. The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (Pearson, 2000).

Crouch, David. The Normans: The History of a Dynasty (London: Hambledon and London, 2002).

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

Thompson, S.P. “Mary, countess of Boulogne (d. 1182)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).