Etienne-Henri II de Blois, Comte de Blois^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1045 - 1102  (~ 57 years)

• Name	Etienne-Henri II de Blois
  		Crusaders First (1095–1099); Second (1147–1149); Third or the Kings' Crusade (1189–1192); Forth (1202–1204); Fifth (1213–1221); Sixth (1228); Barons' (1239); Seventh (1248-1254); Eighth (1270); and Ninth (1271-1272).
  Suffix	Comte de Blois
  Born	Abt 1045
  Gender	Male
  Title	1089	Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France   [3]
  	Comte de Blois
  Military	1096  [4]
  	First Crusade
  Military	1097	Antakya, Turkey   [6]
  	Seige of Antioch
  	Stephen deserted the Franks on 2 Jun 1197. "His departure must have been enormously damaging to morale, but Stpehen caused even more harm to the expedition's prospects, and to the crusading movement as a whole." Finding Alexios in Philomelium, his report of conditions on the ground sent the emperor and his army back to Constantinople. Adela, in turn, was mortified. [5]
  Military	1101  [7]
  	First Crusade, Second Expedition
  Died	19 May 1102	Ramla, Israel   [9, 10, 11]
  	The second Battle of Ramla (or Ramleh) took place on 17 May 1102 between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Fatimids of Egypt. [8]
  Person ID	I11396	Dickinson
  Last Modified	1 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	Thibaut III de Blois, Comte de Blois,   b. ca. 1010,   d. 30 Sep 1089  (Age ~ 79 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Gundrada, Ctss de Blois
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F5947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adela de Normandie, Ctss de Blois,   b. ca. 1062, Normandy, France ,   d. 8 Mar 1138, Marigny-sur-Loire, France  (Age ~ 76 years)
  Married	Abt 1080	Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France
  Children	1. Humbert de Blois, Comte de Vertus  [Birth]   2. Agnes de Blois,   d. aft. 1129  [Birth]   3. Guillaume de Blois, Seigneur de Sully,   b. ca. 1090,   d. ca. 1150  (Age ~ 60 years)  [Birth] + 4. Thibaut IV de Blois, Count of Blois, Chartres, Champagne and Brie,   b. Abt 1090, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France ,   d. 10 Jan 1152  (Age ~ 62 years)  [Birth]   5. Eudes de Blois,   d. aft. 1107  [Birth]   6. Mathilde de Blois, Ctss of Chester,   d. 25 Nov 1120, Barfleur, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France  [Birth]   7. Adelaide de Blois  [Birth]   8. Eleonore de Blois, Ctss de Vermandois,   d. Aft. 1148  [Birth] + 9. Stephen I de Blois, King of England,   b. ca. 1096, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France ,   d. 25 Oct 1154, Dover, Kent  (Age ~ 58 years)  [Birth]   10. Henri de Blois, Bishop of Winchester,   b. ca. 1098, Winchester, Hampshire, England ,   d. 1 Jul 1171, Winchester, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 73 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2017
  Family ID	F3220	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Married - Abt 1080 - Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France Title - Comte de Blois - 1089 - Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France Military - Seige of Antioch - 1097 - Antakya, Turkey Died - 19 May 1102 - Ramla, Israel  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), "ETIENNE [Henri] de Blois, son of THIBAUT III Comte de Blois & his [first/second wife Gersende du Maine/Gundrada ---] (-murdered Ramla 19 May 1102). " at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CENTRAL%20FRANCE.htm#EtienneIdied1102. [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), "Stephen, Count of Blois" at http://bit.ly/2wed3Fv. [S336466] Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, John Bell Henneman, Jr., Lawrence Earp, William W. Kibler, Grover A. Zinn, (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1995), "Champagne", 190. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 72. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 74. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 68. Asbridge quotes a letter written home in which Stephen describes the privations suffered during the winter of 1097. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 107. [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), quoting "Battle of Ramla (1102)" at http://bit.ly/2wYqutJ. [S336429] Britain's Royal Families: A Complete Genealogy, Alison Weir, (London: Vintage Books, 2008), 51. [S419] God's Wolf: The Life Of The Most Notorious Of All Crusaders, Reynald de Chatillon, Jeffrey Lee, (London: Atlantic Books, 2016), 18. [S420] The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge, (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 134.