Armies of Stephen of Blois on the First Crusade and the Crusade of 1101 Armies of Stephen of Blois on the First Crusade and the Crusade of 1101 The armies of Stephen of Blois participated in the First Crusade of 1096 and the minor crusade of 1101. Stephen, Count of Blois, was married to Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conquerer, and was the father of Stephen, King of England. Stephen apparently fled the battlefield at Antioch and returned home. He was coerced by Adela to form another army to return to the Holy Land in 1101, accompanied by Stephen I “the Rash”, Count of Burgundy. The known members of the army, which
Succession to the Spanish throne Succession to the Spanish throne Spain uses the system of male-preference cognatic primogeniture. Dynasts who marry against the express prohibition of the monarch and the "Cortes" are excluded from the succession together with their descendants. A prohibition expressed only by the monarch or only by the "Cortes" will have no consequences to the succession. Disputes about the succession are to be settled by legislation. Upon his succeeding to the throne, the monarch is required by article 61(1) of the 1978 constitution to take an oath on the occasion of his being proclaimed before the Cortes Generales. The above list is