Guy I, Count of Blois
Guy I of Châtillon, Count of Blois (died 12 August 1342), son of Hugh II of Châtillon and Beatrix of Dampierre, was Count of Blois and Lord of Avesnes 1307–1342.
In 1310, he married Margaret of Valois,[1] daughter of Charles of Valois and sister of Philip VI of France.[2] They had three children:
- Louis II, Count of Blois (d. 1346)[2]
- Charles of Blois (d. 1364)[2] - would marry Joanna, Duchess of Brittany; Charles and the French would engage in the Breton War of Succession against the House of Montfort and the English[3]
- Marie of Blois, married in 1334 Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1346),[4] married secondly Frederick VII , Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg.
He took part in the expedition of Louis X of France against his uncle Robert III of Flanders in 1315, and in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War.
References
- ^ Lalou, Bautier & Maillard 2007, p. 282.
- ^ a b c Jean de Venette, The Chronicle of Jean de Venette, translator Jean Birdsall, editor Richard A. Newhall, (Columbia University Press, 1953), 312.
- ^ Wagner 2006, p. 92.
- ^ Bogdan 2007, p. 56.
Sources
- Bogdan, Henry (2007). La Lorraine des Ducs (in French). Perrin.
- Lalou, Elisabeth; Bautier, Robert Henri; Maillard, François (2007). Itinéraire de Philippe IV le Bel (1285-1314): Introduction (in French). Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres.
- Wagner, John A., ed. (2006). "Charles of Blois, Duke of Brittany". Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Greenwood Press.
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