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Husband: William 'the Simple' 'de' BLOIS [I31888] 1
Born: about 1082
Married: about 1104
Died: 1150
Father: Stephen II Count of BLOIS
Mother: Adela 'Adel' of NORMANDY
Spouses:
Wife: Agnes 'de' SULLY [I31889] 2
Born: about 1085
Died: 1140
Father: Gilles 'de' SULLY
Mother: Eldeburge 'de' BOURGES
Spouses:
Children
01 (F): Margaret of CHAMPAGNE [I31885]
Born: about 1105 in France
Died: 15 DEC 1145 in Bur. Foucarmont, Departement de la Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France 3
Spouses: Henry I Count of EU
Additional Information

William 'the Simple' 'de' BLOIS:

Notes:

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Wikipedia
William was at first groomed to inherit the comital thrones of Blois and Chartres, and was designated count shortly before his father's departure on his second crusade in 1102.[2] However he was soon removed from wide-ranging comital duties by his mother, because of his erratic behaviour. He once assaulted and threatened to kill the Bishop of Chartres over a jurisdictional dispute. So, when her second son Theobald came of age, around 1107, Adela elevated him to the position of count of Blois-Chartres,[3] and forced William to retire to his wife's lands in Sully. (2)Crouch 2000, p. 12. (3) LoPrete 2007, p. 216.

Footnotes
  1. Weis, Frederick Lewis , Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 [2343] (8th edition 2004).
  2. Ibid.
  3. Ibid.
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