Stephen of Aumale was Count of Aumale from 1082 to 1127.

He was son of Eudes de Blois, Count of Troyes and Count of Meaux, and Adelaide of Normandy

Adelaide of Normandy

Adelaide of Normandy was the sister of William the Conqueror.She was the daughter of Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy. Different chroniclers writing in the Gesta Normannorum Ducum call her sister of William the Conqueror either by the same mother or by different mothers...

, countess of Aumale

Aumale

Aumale is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France.-Geography:A village of farming and associated light industry, situated in the valley of the Bresle River of the Norman Pays de Bray in Normandy on the border with Picardie. It is around ...

, and sister of William the Conqueror. Stephen probably succeeded his mother as Count in 1082/4.

In the rebellion of 1095 against William Rufus, the object of the rebels was to place Stephen on the English throne. Stephen was the first cousin of brothers William Rufus, King of England and Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandie. The leaders were Robert de Mowbray

Robert de Mowbray

Robert de Mowbray , a Norman, was Earl of Northumbria from 1086, until 1095, when he was deposed for rebelling against William Rufus, King of England. He was the son of Roger de Mowbray and nephew of Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances...

 and Guillaume III of Eu, Count of Eu. Stephen was sentenced to imprisonment, but escaped from England. Stephen's father was imprisoned in 1096 for complicity.

In 1096 Stephen joined the First Crusade

First Crusade

The First Crusade was a military expedition by Western Christianity to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem...

, with Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandie.

Following the death of King William Rufus, Steven in 1102 was given back the land holding that had been confiscated from his father in 1096 and became lord of Holderness

Holderness

Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common with the Netherlands than other parts of Yorkshire...

, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, England.

In 1118, when William Clito

William Clito

William Clito was the son of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, by his marriage with Sibylla of Conversano...

 rebelled against Henry I of England

Henry I of England

Henry I was the fourth son of William I of England. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106...

, Stephen supported him, with Baldwin VII of Flanders.

Family

He married Hawise, daughter of Ralph, seigneur de Mortimer, and Mélisende. Their children were :

• Guillaume le Gros (c 1101 † 1179), Count of Aumale; married Cecily of Skipton
• Étienne le Gros
  Étienne le Gros
  Stephen le Gros was the second son of Stephen of Aumale. He married his cousin, the eldest daughter of Roger de Mortimer, his mother's nephew. By her they had one son, William Crassus or 'le Gros'....
  
   (Stephen), (c 1112) mentioned 1150 ; married the daughter of Roger Mortimer
• Enguerrand or Ingelran de Aumale, (c 1105) mentioned 1150 ;
• a daughter who married Richard de Gerberoy ;
• Adèle, who married Robert, seigneur de Briquebec ; then Ingelger de Bohun;
• Mathilde, who married Gérard de Pinkeny, vidame of Amiens ;
• Agnès, (c 1117 † post 1170) who married Adam I de Brus, (c 1117 † 1143) Lord of Skelton then Guillaume II de Roumarein 1144 (c 1114 † 1151).