Stephen, II Count of Blois

1045 - 1102  (57 years)

• Name	Stephen , II Count of Blois  [1]
  Suffix	II Count of Blois
  Born	1045  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 May 1102	Ramla, Hamerkaz, Israel   [1]
  Notes	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. He married Adela of Normandy, a daughter of William the Conqueror around 1080 in Chartres. 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 Adela 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. Family and children Stephen and Adela's children were: William, Count of Sully (d.1150), Count of Chartres married Agnes of Sulli (d. aft 1104) and had issue. Theobald II, Count of Champagne Odo, 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 Eléonore (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 Lithuise (d. 1118) married Milo de Brai, Viscount of Troyes (divorced 1115) Henry, Bishop of Winchester Humbert, died young. Lithuise, who married Milon of Troyes, viscount of Troyes, was possibly his sister and not his daughter, judging from the dates of her children. Unsubstantiated claim.[citation needed] He had an illegitimate daughter Emma, who was the mother of William of York, archbishop of York.
  Person ID	I5459	Bosdet Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2013

  
  

  Father	Theobald, III Count of Blois,   b. 1012,   d. 1089  (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Gersende of Maine
  Relationship	Natural
  Divorced	1048  [2]
  Family ID	F2188	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Adela of Normandy,   b. 1062, Normandy, France ,   d. 08 Mar 1136/37, Marcigny-sur-Loire, France  (Age 75 years)
  Children	1. Stephen, King of England,   b. Between 1092 and 1096, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France ,   d. 25 Oct 1154  (Age ~ 62 years)   2. Theobald, II Count of Champagne,   b. 1090,   d. 1152  (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F2187	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_II,_Count_of_Blois. [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_I,_Count_of_Maine.