House of Blois
| House of Blois House of Champagne | |
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Arms of the House of Blois | |
| Country | France, Navarre, England |
| Estates | Blois, Champagne, Navarre, England, Sancerre, Boulogne, Aumale |
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| Founded | 906 |
| Founder | Theobald the Old, Viscount of Blois |
| Final ruler | Joan I of Navarre |
| Dissolution | 1305 |
| Ethnicity | French |
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The House of Blois is a lineage derived from the Frankish nobility, whose principal members were often named Theobald (Thibaud, Thibault, Thibaut in French).
Heirs of the viscounts of Blois, the House of Blois accumulated the counties of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Troyes, Meaux - as successors of Herbertians - etc., then the county of Champagne, and finally the kingdom of Navarre. The family was founded by Theobald the Old in the year 906.
When Louis VII of France was greatly threatened by the vast collection of territories in the person of Henry II of England, he chose a wife from the House of Champagne (Adela of Champagne) as a counterpoise to Angevin power.
The senior line of the House of Blois became extinct with the death of Joan I of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France, in 1305. Champagne and Navarre passed to the Capetian dynasty.
King Stephen I of England, 1135-1154, was both a member of the House of Blois and the last Anglo-Norman King, being the grandson of William the Conqueror through his daughter Adela.[1]
A branch of the family was established in Sancerre by Stephen I of Sancerre, a younger son of Theobald II, Count of Champagne. This branch became extinct at the death of Margaret of Sancerre in 1418 or 1419.
Genealogy
- Theobald the Old, Viscount of Blois
- Theobald I, Count of Blois
- Hugh, Archbishop of Bourges
- Odo I, Count of Blois
- Theobald II of Blois
- Odo II, Count of Blois
- Theobald III, Count of Blois
- Stephen, Count of Blois
- William, Count of Sully
- Theobald II, Count of Champagne
- Henry I, Count of Champagne
- Theobald V, Count of Blois
- William White Hands
- Stephen I of Sancerre
- William I, Count of Sancerre
- Louis I, Count of Sancerre
- John I, Count of Sancerre
- Stephen II, Count of Sancerre
- John II, Count of Sancerre
- Louis II, Count of Sancerre
- John III, Count of Sancerre
- Margaret, Countess of Sancerre
- Louis de Sancerre, Constable of France
- Robert, Lord of Menetou
- Theobald, Lord of Sagonne
- Stephen, Lord of Vailly-sur-Sauldre
- John III, Count of Sancerre
- Louis II, Count of Sancerre
- Theobald, Bishop of Tournai
- Louis, Lord of Sagonne
- Robert, Lord of Menetou-Salon
- John I, Count of Sancerre
- Louis I, Count of Sancerre
- Stephen II, Lord of Châtillon-sur-Loing, Grand Butler of France
- Stephen III, Lord of Châtillon-sur-Loing
- William I, Count of Sancerre
- Stephen, King of England
- Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester
- Philip, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne
- Odo V, Count of Troyes
- Hugh, Count of Champagne
- Eudes I of Champlitte (disowned by father)
- Odo II of Champlitte
- William of Champlitte, 1st prince of Achaea
- Eudes I of Champlitte (disowned by father)
- Stephen, Count of Blois
- Stephen II, Count of Troyes and Meaux
- Odo, Count of Champagne
- Stephen, Count of Aumale
- Odo, Count of Champagne
- Theobald III, Count of Blois
- Richard, Archbishop of Bourges
- Theobald I, Count of Blois
Arms
Count of Champagne
See also
References
- ↑ David Crouch. The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154, Pearson Education, Harlow, England, 2000.