ID: I00958
Name: Stephen II of BLOIS
Sex: M
Name: Stephen II HENRY
Birth: ABT 1045 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France 1
Death: 19 MAY 1102 in Battle of Ramla, Jerusalem 1
Occupation: BET 1089 AND 1102 Count of Blois 2
Occupation: Count of Chartres 2
Note:
Stephen inherited Blois, Chartres and Meaux in 1089, 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 eldest son, Guillaume, was disinherited, supposedly for mental weakness; he was made Count of Chartres instead. Blois then passed to the second son, Theobald. 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. A daughter, Lucia-Mahaut de Blois, perished in the White Ship disaster. 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 during 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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Father: *Theobald III of BLOIS b: 1012 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France
Mother: *Garsende of MAINE b: 1019 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine, Pays-de-la-Loire, France

Marriage 1 *Adela of NORMANDY b: ABT 1067
Married: 1080 in Chartres, France 1
Children
Agnes of BLOIS b: in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais, France
Philip BLOIS b: in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais, France
*Guillaume of CHARTRES b: 1080 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais, France
*Theobald II "the Great" of CHAMPAGNE b: 1090 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France
Henry of BLOIS b: ABT 1092 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais, France
Humbert BLOIS b: ABT 1094 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais, France
Matilda of BLOIS b: ABT 1097 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais, France
*Stephen of ENGLAND b: 1097 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France
Lithuise of BLOIS b: ABT 1098 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais, France
Alix of BLOIS b: ABT 1100 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France
Odo of BLOIS b: 1101 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Orleanais, France
Eléonore of BLOIS b: 1102 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France

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