Marguerite de Blois

Marguerite married Otto II von Hohenstaufen about 1191. Otto (son of Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrice of Burgundy) was born in 1167; died on 2 Jan 1200. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Beatrix von Hohenstaufen was born in 1192; died about 6 May 1231.

Marguerite married Gautier II d'Avesnes after 1200. Gautier (son of Jacques d'Avesnes and Adela of Guise) died after 1243. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marie d'Avesnes died in 1241.

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Count of Blois. Died in the Third Crusade.

Thibaut married Alice of France about 1164. Alice (daughter of Louis VII, King of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born in 1151; died after 1195. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1093, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France

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Count of Blois, Champagne, and Troyes. Nicknamed "le Grand".

Thibaut married Mathilde of Carinthia in 1123. Mathilde (daughter of Engelbert II von Sponheim and Uta of Passau) died on 13 Dec 1160 in Fontevault, Maine-et-Loir, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 13 Dec 1161, Fontevault, Maine-et-Loir, France

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Also called Machaldis, Matildis, Mathildis, Matirdis, etc. Also called Mathilde von Kärnten. Also called Mathilde of Sponheim.

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• Alternate birth: 1121
• Alternate death: 19 Sep 1180

Louis married Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England in Jul 1137 in Cathedral of Saint-Andre, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Eleanor (daughter of William X of Aquitaine and Aénor de Châtellerault) was born in 1122; died on 1 Apr 1204; was buried in Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1124
• Alternate death: 31 Mar 1204, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France

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Also called Alienor, Helienordis. Duchess of Aquitaine.

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Also called Stephen of Blois, confusingly enough.

Count Of Blois. Died at the Siege of Ramallah in the First Crusade.

Etienne married Adela of Normandy in 1080 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Beauce, Centre, France. Adela (daughter of William I, King of England and Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England) was born about 1061; died on 8 Mar 1137 in Convent of Marcigny-sur-Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1067
• Alternate death: 8 Mar 1138, Convent of Marcigny-sur-Loire, France

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Also called Adele of England.

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Duke of Carinthia. Margrave of Istria.

Engelbert married Uta of Passau. Uta (daughter of Ulrich of Passau and Adelaide) died after Nov 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The Fat."

Louis married Alix of Savoy, Queen Consort of France in Mar 1115 in Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France. Alix (daughter of Umberto II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy) was born about 1092; died on 18 Nov 1154; was buried in Abbey Church of Saint Pierre, Montmartre, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adelaide of Maurienne.

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• Alternate death: 28 Mar 1136, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
• Alternate death: 9 Apr 1137

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Called "The Saint." Duke of Aquitaine. Also, as William VIII, Count of Poitou. Also Duke of Gascony.

William married Aénor de Châtellerault in 1121. Aénor (daughter of Aimery I of Chátellerault and Dangereuse) died after 3 Mar 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft Mar 1130

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Also called Eleanor; Aénor de Rochefoucauld.

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1012
• Alternate death: 30 Sep 1089

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Also called Theobald.

Count of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Champagne, Meaux, Provins, and Sancerre.

Thibaut married Garsinda of Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Gersent de la Mans.

Carl Boyer, in his Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, states that Thibaut III was married three times: first to Gersenda of Maine, daughter of Herbert, Count of Maine, second to a Gundrada, and third to Alix de Crepi. He gives Etienne Henri (whom he calls "Stephen III") as a son of the second wife.

Douglas Richardson, in Royal Ancestry, also gives Etienne Henri as a son of Gundrada / Gondrée.

Both Richardson and Boyer cite Arbois de Jubainville's 1859 Histoire des Ducs et des Comtes de Champagne, which contains a charter of Count Etienne and his wife Ala, dated 1089, which names his father, Count Thibaut, and his mother, Gundrea.

Answering a query from us on soc.genealogy.medieval, Joe Cook pointed out, on 12 Jan 2020, that the question is "if it is more likely that Thibaut had a wife Gundreae who appears only in one place in recorded history (this charter of 1089 [...]) who died shortly after this birth...or if someone perhaps misread 'Gersendae' as 'Gundreae' when transcribing the charter. The latter seems a lot more likely to me; but doubt it can be resolved beyond that?"

Peter Stewart also remarked on the subject, saying on the same date: "I agree with this, as implicitly did Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville whose book (vol. 1, cited by Joe above) is cited for 'Gundrea'. In his own work (same vol., p. 392 note 5) he stated that Stephen Henry was the son of his father's first wife Gersende of Maine, but on p. 504 he printed the charter dated 1089 representing that Stephen Henry named his mother as 'Gundre'. However, Arbois de Jubainville took this charter directly from the text as printed in a history of Blois published in 1682, where the same name is clearly given as 'Gandrea' - and as suggested by Joe, this is fairly likely to be a copyist's error for Garsenda."

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• Alternate birth: 1027

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Duke of Normandy 1028-1087; King of England 1066-1087.

William married Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England about 1050. Matilda (daughter of Baldwin V and St. Adele of France) was born in 1032; died on 2 Nov 1083; was buried in Abbey of Sainte-Trinitie, Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 3 Nov 1083

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She was about four feet tall, probably accounting for the short stature reported of some of her children, notably including Robert "Curthose" and probably including William Rufus as well.

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Count of Sponheim. Count in the Kraichgau.

Engelbert married Hedwig of Mossa. Hedwig died after 1 Jun 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"She is called Hedwig 'of Mossa' (died on 1 June in an unknown year after 1100, perhaps ca 1112)." [Peter Stewart, citation details below.]

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Count of Passau.

Ulrich married Adelaide. Adelaide (daughter of Kuno of Harburg and Mathilde) died about 1112. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Bertha of Holland, Queen Consort of France in 1072. Bertha (daughter of Floris I of Holland and Gertrude of Saxony) was born about 1055; died on 30 Jul 1093 in Montreuil-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1094

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Called "the Fat." Count of Maurienne, Savoy, and Turin

Umberto married Gisela of Burgundy about 1090. Gisela (daughter of William I "The Great" of Burgundy and Stephanie) was born about 1070; died after 1133. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Marchioness of Montferrat.

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• Alternate death: 10 Feb 1127

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Also called Guilhèm de Peitieus; Guillaume de Poitiers. Duke of Aquitaine; also, as William VII, Count of Poitou. A leader of the Crusade of 1101, he is much more famous as the first troubador poet whose work has survived.

"Ab la dolcher del temps novel"
By William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

Out of the sweetness of the spring,
The branches leaf, the small birds sing,
Each one chanting in its own speech,
Forming the verse of its new song,
Then is it good a man should reach
For that for which he most does long.

From finest sweetest place I see
No messenger, no word for me,
So my heart can't laugh or rest,
And I don't dare try my hand,
Until I know, and can attest,
That all things are as I demand.

This love of ours it seems to be
Like a twig on a hawthorn tree
That on the tree trembles there
All night, in rain and frost it grieves,
Till morning, when the rays appear
Among the branches and the leaves.

So the memory of that dawn to me
When we ended our hostility,
And a most precious gift she gave,
Her loving friendship and her ring:
Let me live long enough, I pray,
Beneath her cloak my hand to bring.

I've no fear that tongues too free
Might part me from Sweet Company,
I know with words how they can stray
In gossip, yet that's a fact of life:
No matter if others boast of love,
We have the loaf, we have the knife!

Translated by A. S. Kline. © 2009; All Rights Reserved. This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.

"For any of the later Provençals, i.e., the high-brows, we have to...'put ourselves into the Twelfth Century' etc. Guillaume, writing a century earlier, is just as much of our age as of his own."
[Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance]

And Poictiers, you know, Guillaume Poictiers,
had brought the song up out of Spain
with the singers and viels...
[Ezra Pound, Canto VIII]

He is also remembered for his specularly public affair with a woman named Dangereuse, the wife of his vassal Aimery I of Châtellerault. Aside from its interest as pure medieval melodrama, he was the paternal grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Dangereuse was Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

William married Philippa of Toulouse in 1094. Philippa (daughter of William IV of Toulouse and Emma of Mortain) died on 28 Nov 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 28 Nov 1118, Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France

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Also called Mathilda; Maud. Regent of Toulouse.

Ancestral Roots and other sources to the contrary, she was probably never married to Sancho V Ramirez (1043-94), king of Aragon. Wikipedia's article on Philippa of Toulouse cites two sources to this effect:

"Szabolcs de Vajay, 'Ramire II le Moine, roi d'Aragon et Agnes de Poitou dans l'histoire et la légende', in Me?langes offerts a? Rene? Crozet, 2 vol, Poitiers, 1966, vol 2, p 727-750; and Ruth E Harvey, 'The wives of the first troubadour Duke William IX of Aquitaine', in Journal of Medieval History, vol 19, 1993, p 315. Harvey states that, contrary to prior assumptions, William IX was certainly Philippa of Toulouse's only husband. Vajay states that the marriage to an unnamed king of Aragon reported by a non-contemporary chronicler is imaginary even though it has appeared broadly in modern histories, and likewise he cites J de Salarrullana de Dios, Documentos correspondientes al reinado de Sancho Ramirez, Saragossa, 1907, vol I, nr 51, p 204-207 to document that Sancho's wife Felicie was clearly still married to him just months before his death, making the marriage to Philippa several years earlier, as reported in several modern popular biographies of her granddaughter, completely unsupportable."

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• Alternate death: Bef 7 Nov 1144, Notre-Dame de Noyers monastery, Nouâtre, Indre-et-Loire, France
• Alternate death: 1151

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Also called Almeric. Viscount of Chatellerault. Died as a monk.

Aimery married Dangereuse. Dangereuse was born about 1079; died after 1119. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In 1903 Alfred Richard proposed that the Dangereuse who was wife to Aymeric I of Châtellerault was the Dangerosa who occurs as a daughter of Barthelemy de l'Isle-Bouchard and his wife Gerberge in a charter ascribed by its editor to roughly 1087. In a charter dated 1109, Aimery I of Châtellerault names his wife as Dangerosa but says nothing about her parentage. As Peter Stewart pointed out in a post to SGM on 26 Feb 2021, this doesn't add up to proof, although it (Stewart's words) "does seem reasonably likely."

The fact that her Wikipedia article is titled "Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard", as if this parentage were an established fact, does Wikipedia no credit.

She was also called La Maubergeonne; Amauberge. The latter may have been her actual baptismal name.

She was mistress to William IX of Aquitaine, father of her son-in-law, in a spectacularly public affair that encompassed papal condemnation and a great deal of other medieval melodrama. The fact that she was Eleanor of Aquitaine's maternal grandmother, and he was Eleanor's paternal grandfather, has only served to add further sizzle to the tale.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 985

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Count of Blois, Chartres, Troyes, and Champagne. Killed in the siege of Bar-le-duc.

Odo married Ermengarde of Auvergne about 1010. Ermengarde (daughter of Robert I d'Auvergne and Ermengarde) died on 10 Mar 1040. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 10 Mar 1042

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Comte de Maine. Called "Eveille-Chien," which "may refer to someone who gets up early to go hunting with his pack of dogs." According to Orderic Vitalis, he acquired his epithet because of the continuing need to resist the devastations caused by his Angevin neighbours." [Leo van de Pas, citation details below.]

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• Alternate death: 1035
• Alternate death: 22 Jul 1035

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"The Devil." Duke of Normandy.

Robert married Herleve. Herleve was born about 1003; died about 1050; was buried in Grestain Abbey, Fatouville-Grestain, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1051

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Also called Arlette. Also called Herleve "de Falaise", this predicated on the belief that she was the daughter of a tanner or forester named Fulbert from the town of Falaise.

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1012
• Alternate birth: 1012

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Count/Marquess of Flanders 1035-1067; Regent of France 1060-1067.

Also known as Baudouin de Flandre, Baldwin "De l'Isle"; Baldwin of Lille; Balduinus Insulanus; Balduinus Pius.

Baldwin married St. Adele of France in 1028 in Paris, France. Adele (daughter of Robert II, King of France and Constance of Provence, Queen Consort of France) was born between 1010 and 1015; died on 8 Jan 1079; was buried in Abbey of Messines, Ypres, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1003
• Alternate birth: Abt 1009, Ypres, Flanders
• Alternate death: Abt 1063

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Also called Adela; Aelis; Alais; Adelaide; Adelheid; Alix; Adela the Holy; Adela of Messines. Countess of Auxerre; Countess of Cotentin.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1010
• Alternate death: 7 Feb 1065, Bulgaria

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Count of Sponheim.

Siegfried married Richgard of Lavant. Richgard (daughter of Engelbert IV of Lavant and Luitgarde) was born about 1015; died about 9 Jun 1072. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Vohburg; Count of Cham.

Ratpoto married Mathilde. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Lechsgemünd.

Kuno married Mathilde. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died on a 30 Sep.

Henri married Anne of Kiev, Queen Consort of France on 19 May 1051 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Anne (daughter of Yaroslav I "The Wise", Grand Prince of Kiev and Ingegerd (St. Anna) of Sweden) was born in 1036 in Kiev, Ukraine; died after 1075. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1079

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Also known as Agnes of Kiev and Anna Yaroslavna.

According to Royal Ancestry, she died "5 Sept., between 1075 and 1078."

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Count of Holland and Westfriesland. Also called Florent; Floris. "He was involved in a war of a few Lotharingian vassals against the imperial authority. On a retreat from Zaltbommel he was ambushed and killed in battle at Nederhemert (called Hamerth at the time), on 28 June 1061." [Wikipedia]

Floris married Gertrude of Saxony about 1050. Gertrude (daughter of Bernard II and Eilika of Schweinfurt) was born about 1030; died on 4 Aug 1113. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Maurienne and Savoy; Margrave of Susa.

Amadeo married Joan of Geneva between 1065 and 1070. Joan (daughter of Gérold of Geneva and Gisele) died about 1095. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Burgundy and, from 1078, Count of Mâcon.

Called "tête hardie", "the rash" or "the stubborn".

William married Stephanie between 1049 and 1057. Stephanie died after 1092. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Wikipedia article about William I, Count of Burgundy, asserts (as of 29 Jun 2015) two wives for him, an "Etiennette de Longuy" that he married circa 1040 and a "Stephanie" that he married before his death in 1087. The article then lists one set of children for Stephanie and another set of "children of either Stephanie or Etiennette". This appears to be confused. [Note that as of 1 May 2016, Wikipedia's article appears to have been cleaned up and corrected.]

According to Ancestral Roots, William had one wife, whom they identify as "Stephanie, parentage NN". They then note: "Prof. David H. Kelly believes her parentage unproven (2003). De Vajay, in Annales de Bourgogne vol. 32 (1960) 258-261, identifies Stephanie (Etiennette) as dau. of Clemence de Foix & Albert de Longwy, Duke of Lorraine, d. 1048. Clemence is identified as dau. of Bernard I Roger, Comte de Foix, d. 1035, & Garsinde de Bigorre; & Bernard as son of Roger I de Carcassonne & wife Adelaide. Moriarty, The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, supplies pedigree charts for these families, but does not agree with de Vajay as to her identity. Garnier, Tableaux Généalogiques des Souverains de la France et de ses Grand Feudataires, table XXVIII, shows her as dau. of Raymond II, Count of Barcelona."

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As Count of Poitou, he was called William VI; as Duke of Aquitaine, William VIII. Also Duke of Gascony.

Guy-Geoffrey married Hildegarde of Burgundy in 1069. Hildegarde (daughter of Robert I and Ermengarde of Anjou) was born about 1050; died after 1104. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke and Count of Toulouse.

William married Emma of Mortain before 1080. Emma (daughter of Robert de Mortain and Maud de Montgomery) died after 1134. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ancestral Roots and Richardson's Royal Ancestry have a 54-year spread between their two different death dates for Emma of Mortain.

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Viscount of Châtellerault.

Boson married Aliénor de Thouars in 1075. Aliénor (daughter of Aimery IV de Thouars and Arengarde de Mauléon) was born about 1050. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]