Hugh I, Count of Blois, also known as ''Hugh I of Châtillon'' ( – 9 April 1248)
[Theodore Evergates, ''The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 223.] was
jure uxoris Count of Blois from 1230 to 1241, and
Count of Saint Pol (as Hugh V) from 1226 to 1248.
Hugh was son of
Gaucher III of Châtillon and
Elisabeth, daughter of
Hugo IV, Count of Saint-Pol.
He married Agnes of Bar-le-Duc, daughter of Thibaut I of Bar-le-Duc and Hermesend of Bar-sur-Seine, in 1216.
By 1225, Agnes was dead and Hugh married Marie.
In 1226, Hugh married
Marie of Avesnes
Mary, Countess of Blois, also known as ''Marie of Avesnes'', (1200–1241) was countess of Blois from 1230 to 1241.
She was the daughter of Walter of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois.(FR)Henri Platelle, ''Présence de l'au-delà: une vision médié ...
, daughter of
Walter II of Avesnes Walter II of Avesnes (b. 1170 – d.1244) was lord of Avesnes, Leuze, of Condé and Guise, and through his marriage to Margaret of Blois, he became count of Blois and Chartres. He was the son of James of Avesnes, and Adèle, lady of Guise.
Wa ...
and
Margaret of Blois
Margaret of Blois (French: ''Marguerite''; died 1230) was ''suo jure'' Countess of Blois in France from 1218 to 1230. From 1190 to 1200, she was the countess consort of the County of Burgundy and then regent for her daughters from 1200 until 1208. ...
.
They had 5 children:
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John I (d. 1280),
Count of Blois[Theodore Evergates, ''The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300'', 254.]
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Guy III (d. 1289),
Count of Saint Pol
# Gaucher IV (d. 1261), lord of Chatillon,
Crécy and
Crèvecœur.
His son was:
Gaucher V de Châtillon.
# Hugh (d. 1255)
# Basile (d. 1280), became Abbess of Notre Dame du Val in 1248
Through his marriage Hugh became the first Count of Blois from the House of Châtillon. It marked the end of the first
dynasty
A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,''Oxford English Dictionary'', "dynasty, ''n''." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897. usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics. A ...
of Blois that lasted over 400 years. After the death of Marie, Hugh married Mahaut, sister of
Baldwin III, Count of Guînes Baldwin III, Count of Guînes (1198–1244) was a Flemish nobleman. He inherited the war-torn County of Guînes, now in northern France, while Philip II of France was still on the throne, and suffered the repercussions of Philip's expansion of the F ...
.
In 1226 the
Cisterian nunnery Pont-aux-Dames in
Couilly was founded by Hugh.
[Anne E. Lester, ''Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth Century Champagne'', (Cornell University Press, 2011), 157-158.] Later Hugh, with the assistance of Philip Mécringes, founded a Cistercian nunnery at Troissy called ''L'Amour-Dieu'' in 1232.
Hugh intended to follow the pious king
Louis IX
Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, and the most illustrious of the Direct Capetians. He was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the d ...
when he started on the
Seventh Crusade, but he died in 1248.
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