Stephen II Henry Comte de Blois ²

  General Notes:

Stephen II Henry, Comte de Blois was a member of the House of Blois. He gained the title of Comte de Brie before 1090. He gained the title of Comte de Chartres before 1090. He gained the title of Comte de Blois before 1090.2 He gained the title of Comte de Meaux before 1090. He gained the title of Comte de Champagne. He fought in the siege of Ramula and the Battle of Ascalon in May 1102. He died 19 May 1102 from wounds in action. He is also reported to have died on 19 Jul 1102 in Ramleh.

He married Adela de Normandie, daughter of William I 'the Conqueror', King of England and Matilda de Flandre, in 1080 in Breteuil, France , and again in 1081 at the Chartres Cathedral marriage.

[source: thePeerage.com, http://www.thepeerage.com/ citing: Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 50]

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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 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.

[source: Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy, http://nygaard.howards.net/]

Stephen married Adèla de Normandie, daughter of William I 'the Conqueror' King of England and Matilda de Flandre, in 1080 in Breteuil, France.¹ (Adèla de Normandie was born about 1062 in Normandie, France ⁴ and died on 8 Mar 1137 in Marcigny-sur-Loire, Bourbonnais, France ².)

  Marriage Notes:

They married in 1080 in Breteuil, France and again in 1081 at the Chartres Cathedral.