Guy I, Count of Blois
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Guy I of Blois-Châtillon (died August 12, 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 Marguerite of Valois, daughter of Charles of Valois
and sister of Philip VI of France
. They had three children:
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
.
Count of Blois
The County of Blois was originally centred on Blois, south of Paris, France. One of the chief cities, along with Blois itself, was Chartres. Blois was associated with Champagne, Châtillon , and later with the French royal family, to whom the county passed in 1391...
and lord of Avesnes 1307–1342.
In 1310, he married Marguerite of Valois, daughter of Charles of Valois
Charles of Valois
Charles of Valois was the fourth son of Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon. His mother was a daughter of James I of Aragon and Yolande of Hungary. He was a member of the House of Capet and founded the House of Valois...
and sister of Philip VI of France
Philip VI of France
Philip VI , known as the Fortunate and of Valois, was the King of France from 1328 to his death. He was also Count of Anjou, Maine, and Valois from 1325 to 1328...
. They had three children:
- Louis I of Châtillon (d. 1346)
- Charles of BloisCharles, Duke of BrittanyCharles of Blois , claimed the title Duke of Brittany, from 1341 to his death.Charles is the son of Guy I of Blois-Châtillon, count of Blois, by Margaret of Valois, a sister of king Philip VI of France. He was a devout man, who took piety to the extreme of mortifying his own flesh...
(d. 1364) - Marie, married in 1334 Rudolph, Duke of LorraineRudolph, Duke of LorraineRudolph , called the Valiant , was the Duke of Lorraine from 1329 to his death. He was the son and successor of Frederick IV and Elisabeth, daughter of Albert I of Germany, a Habsburg, whence his name...
(d. 1346), married secondly Frederick VII, Count of LeiningenLeiningenLeiningen is the name of an old German family whose lands lay principally in Alsace, Lorraine and the Palatinate. The first count of Leiningen about whom anything certain is known was a certain Emich II , whose family became extinct in the male line when Count Frederick, a Minnesinger, died about...
-Dagsburg.
He took part in the expedition of Louis X of France
Louis X of France
Louis X of France, , called the Quarreler, the Headstrong, or the Stubborn was the King of Navarre from 1305 and King of France from 1314 until his death...
against his uncle Robert III of Flanders
Robert III of Flanders
Robert III of Flanders , also called Robert of Bethune and nicknamed The Lion of Flanders , was Count of Nevers 1273–1322 and Count of Flanders 1305–1322.-History:...
in 1315, and in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings...
.