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Birth:          ABT 1045 of Blois, France
Death:          27 May 1102 Battle of Ramleh, Palestine
Cause of Death: slain

Notes
Crusader, leader of the First Crusade, 1096
m 1080/81
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_Count_of_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.[citation needed]

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, leading one of the major 
armies of the Princes and 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.[2] He returned home in 1098 during the 
lengthy siege of Antioch, fleeing the battlefield, 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.[3]
Family[edit]

Stephen married Adela of Normandy,[4] a daughter of William the Conqueror around 
1080 in Chartres. He fathered Adela's children:
1.William, Count of Sully[4]
2.Theobald II, Count of Champagne[4]
3.Odo, who died young
4.Stephen, King of England[4]
5.Lucia-Mahaut, married Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester. Both drowned on 
25 November 1120 in the White Ship disaster.
6.Agnes, married Hugh III of Le Puiset
7.Eleanor (d. 1147) married Raoul I of Vermandois (d. 1152) and had issue; they were 
divorced in 1142.
8.Alix (c. 1100 – 1145) married Renaud III of Joigni (d. 1134) and had issue
9.Adelaide, married Milo II of Montlhéry, Viscount of Troyes (divorced 1115)
10.Henry, Bishop of Winchester[4]
11.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,[5] but recent research 
suggests a different parentage for her.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_of_Winchester

Parents
____ Thibaud (Theobald) III (1012 - 30 Sep 1089)
OF MAINE Gersinde (ABT 1019 - BEF 1096)

Siblings
OF BLOIS Stephen [chg from Henry] (Etienne Henri) III "Le Sage" (ABT 1045 - 27 May 1102)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
OF BLOIS Emma ()

Marriage To OF NORMANDY Adele (Alice) (ABT 1062 - 8 Mar 1137)
    m. ABT 1080 

Notes

Parents
____ William I "the Conqueror" (14 Oct 1024 - 9 Sep 1087)
OF FLANDERS Maud (Matilda) (1028 - 2 Nov 1083)

Children by OF NORMANDY Adele (Alice) ABT 1062 - 8 Mar 1137
DE CHAMPAGNE William ("the Simple") (ABT 1080 - ABT 1150)
OF BLOIS Theobald (Thibaud) IV (II) "the Great" (1090 - 8 Jan 1152)
OF BLOIS Stephen (ABT 1095 - 25 Oct 1154)

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