House of Blois chose a wife from the House of Champagne (Adela of Champagne) as a counterpoise to Angevin power. The senior line of the House of Blois became extinct with the death of Joan I of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France, in 1305. Champagne and Navarre passed to the Capetian dynasty. King Stephen I of England, 1135–1154, was both a member of the House of Blois and the last Anglo-Norman King, being the grandson of William the Conqueror through his daughter Adela of Normandy. A branch of the family was established in Sancerre by Stephen I of Sancerre, a younger
King of the Royal Mounted strip was passed on to , who took over the daily strip as well in April 1938. From 1939, Gaylord DuBois became the writer and Jim Gary became the artist, creating "King" until it ended in March 1955. In the end, it was Jim Gary who became the artist most closely associated with the strip. King of the Royal Mounted King of the Royal Mounted is an American comics series created in 1935 by Stephen Slesinger, based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed as "Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted". The series' protagonist is Dave King,