Count Stephen (The Sage) Henry of Blois II (Stephen de Blois) 
Stephen, known as The Sage, was born in 1045 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France.1 The Sage's father was Count Theobald of Blois II and his mother was Garsende de Maine. His paternal grandparents were Odo de Blois & Champagne II and Irmgard de Auvergne; his maternal grandparents were Heribert du Maine II and Bertha de Blois. He was an only child. He died due to battle of Ramla at the age of 57 on May 19th, 1102 in Ramula, Holy Land.2 General Notes
Stephen II Henry (c. 1045 - May 19, 1102), Count of Blois and Count of Chartres, was the son of Theobald III, Count of Blois, and Garsinde du Maine.
In about 1080, in Chartres, France, Stephen married Adela of Normandy, a daughter of William the Conqueror. Their third son Stephen of Blois became king of England after Henry I of England died without a male heir and the English did not think Henry I's daughter Empress Maud a suitable ruler because of her sex. Stephen and Adela's youngest son was Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester.
Count Stephen was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, often writing enthusiastic letters to Adela about the crusade's progress. He returned home in 1098 after the lengthy siege of Antioch, without having fulfilled his crusading vow, which would have been completed only if he had made it all the way to Jerusalem. He was pressured by Adela into making a second pilgrimage, and along with others who faced the same pressures after returning home prematurely, he joined the minor crusade of 1101. In 1102, Stephen was killed in battle at the age of 57, during the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem's siege of Ascalon in what is now Israel.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0885 in Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France d.0950 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France
- b.0915 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France d.16 Jan 0977 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France
- b.0891 in Brouges, Alsace
- b.0950 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France d.12 Mar 0995 in Marmontier, France
- b.0880 in Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Feb 0942 in St. Quentin, Flanders
- b.0921 in Vermandois, Neustria, France d.27 May 0977 in Matemoutier Abbey, Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.0897 in Vermandois, Neustria, France d.Mar 0930 in Vermandois, Neustria, France
- b.0983 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.15 Nov 1037 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France
- b.0902 in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France d.11 Jul 0937 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0925 in Arles, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Oct 0993 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0905 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria d.02 Jan 0965 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0966 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France d.16 Jan 1015 in Paris, France
- b.10 Sep 0921 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France d.10 Sep 0954 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France
- b.0943 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France d.27 Jan 0980 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0913 in Nordausen, Saxony, Prussia d.05 May 0984 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France
- b.1012 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.Sep 1089 in Epernay, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
- b.0910 d.0989
- b.0940 in Auvergne, France d.1010
- b.0910
- b.0971 in Auvergne, France d.1032 in Clermont, Beauvaisis, France
- b.0951 in Limoges, Haute Vienne, Limousin, France d.1025
- b.0960
- b.0950 in Segur, Aurvergne, France d.1025
- d.10 Mar 1039
- b.0930 in Autun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.0966 in Avignon, Vaucluse, Provence, France
- b.0958 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France d.0994 in Avignon, France
- b.0920 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.0963 in Autun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France
- b.0990 in Toulouse, France d.10 Mar 1040
- b.0909 in Anjou, France d.11 Nov 0958 in Tours, France
- b.0950 in Anjou, France d.1026
- b.0915 in Gatinais, Loiret, Orleanais/Centre, France d.0952
- b.1045 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.19 May 1102 in Ramula, Holy Land
- b.0940 d.0992
- b.0960
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- b.0980 d.13 Apr 1036
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- b.1000 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.13 Apr 1036
- b.0982 in Le Mans, Maine, France
- b.1019 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine, Pays-de-la-Loire, France d.1090
- b.0915 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France d.16 Jan 0977 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France
- b.0950 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France d.12 Mar 0995 in Marmontier, France
- b.0921 in Vermandois, Neustria, France d.27 May 0977 in Matemoutier Abbey, Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.0983 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.15 Nov 1037 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France
- b.0925 in Arles, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Oct 0993 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.0966 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France d.16 Jan 1015 in Paris, France
- b.0943 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France d.27 Jan 0980 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France
- b.1002 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Touraine, France d.13 Apr 1085
- b.0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0990 d.1015
- b.0921 in Crepon, Normandy, France d.1002 in Longueville-sur-Scie, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0945 in Normandie d.1031 in Normandy, France
- b.0923 in Uppsala, Sweden d.1002
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Details of The Sage's family with Adelidis (Alice) of England
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I16905&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I9846&style=TABLE
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I00958
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I9846&style=TABLE
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I00958
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