Étienne, count of Blois

Also known as Henri and Étienne-Henri.

English name form: Stephen.

Count of Blois

Count of Chartres

Count of Châteaudun

Count of Meaux

Lord of Sancerre, Saint-Florentin, Provins, Montereau, Vertus, Oulchy-le-Château, Château-Thierry, Châtillon-sur-Marne and Montfélix

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 19 May 1102.

Place of Death: Ramla.

Relationships

Father: Thibaut III, count of Blois.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:838), by LoPrete (p. 576), by Crouch (p. 239), by Evergates (p. 248), and by Tanner.

Mother: Gersende of Maine.

This relationship is given by LoPrete (p. 576) and by Evergates (p. 248).

Spouse: Adela de Normandie.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:838), by LoPrete (ch. 2), by Crouch (p. 240), by King (p. 271), and by Keats-Rohan (p. 223).

Children (by Adela):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Guillaume, married Agnès de Sully.

Thibaut IV (died January 1152), count of Blois, married Mathilde von Sponheim.

Eudes.

Mathilde (died 25 November 1120) married Richard d’Avranches, earl of Chester.

Éléonore married Raoul (I) “le Valiant”, count of Vermandois.

Stephen (died 25 October 1154), king of England, married Mathilde, countess of Boulogne.

Henry (born about 1096 - died 8 August 1171), bishop of Winchester.

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).

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

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

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

King, Edmund. "Stephen of Blois, Count of Mortain and Boulogne" in The English Historical Review, Vol. 115, No. 461 (Apr., 2000), pp. 271-296

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

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