Ancestral Trails 2016 » STEPHEN HENRY de BLOIS (1045-1102)

Personal data STEPHEN HENRY de BLOIS 

• He was born in the year 1045 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France.
• Title: Count of Blois, Champagne, Brie & Chartres
• Profession: in the year 1102 in Crusader.
• He died on May 27, 1102 in Battle of Ramleh, Palestine, he was 57 years old.
• A child of THIBAULT de BLOIS and GARSENDE de MAINE

Household of STEPHEN HENRY de BLOIS

(1) He is married to ADELA de NORMANDY.

They got married in the year 1081 at Breteuil, Oise, Picardie, France, he was 36 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Eleanor de BLOIS  1083-1147 
2. Adela de BLOIS  1094-????
3. Lucia Maud de BLOIS  1090-1120
4. Agnes de BLOIS  ± 1103-????
5. Philippe de BLOIS  ± 1089-1100
6. Alix de BLOIS  ± 1087-1145
7. STEPHEN de BLOIS  1096-1154 
8. THEOBALD de CHAMPAGNE  -1152 
9. WILLIAM de CHAMPAGNE  1086-1150 
10. Eudes de BLOIS  ± 1102-1107
11. Henri de BLOIS  1101-1171

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He had a relationship with UNKNOWN.




Child(ren):

1. EMMA de BLOIS  1075-???? 




Notes about STEPHEN HENRY de BLOIS

Stephen II Henry (in French, Étienne Henri, in Medieval French, Estienne Henri) (c. 1045 - 19 May 1102), Count of Blois and Count of Chartres, was the son of Theobald III, count of Blois, and Garsinde du Maine. He is numbered Stephen II after Stephen I, Count of Troyes.

In 1089, upon the death of his father, he became the Count of Blois and Chartres, although Theobald had given him the administration of those holdings in 1074. He was the father of Stephen of England.

Count Stephen was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, often writing enthusiastic letters to his wife Adela of Normandy about the crusade's progress. Stephen was the head of the army council at the Crusaders' siege of Nicaea in 1097. He returned home in 1098 during the lengthy siege of Antioch, without having fulfilled his crusading vow to forge a way to Jerusalem. He was pressured by Adela into making a second pilgrimage, and joined the minor crusade of 1101 in the company of others who had also returned home prematurely. In 1102, Stephen was killed at the Second Battle of Ramla at the age of fifty-seven.

Stephen married Adela of Normandy, a daughter of William the Conqueror around 1080 in Chartres. He fathered Adela's children:
William, Count of Sully
Theobald II, Count of Champagne
Odo, who died young
Stephen, King of England
Lucia-Mahaut, married Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester. Both drowned on 25 November 1120.
Agnes, married Hugh III of Le Puiset
Eleanor (d. 1147) married Raoul I of Vermandois (d. 1152) and had issue; they were divorced in 1142.
Alix (c. 1100 - 1145) married Renaud III of Joigni (d. 1134) and had issue
Adelaide, married Milo II of Montlhéry, Viscount of Troyes (divorced 1115)
Henry, Bishop of Winchester
Humbert, died young

A late 14th century source gives him an illegitimate daughter Emma, wife of Herbert of Winchester and mother of William of York, archbishop of York, but recent research suggests a different parentage for her.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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