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
Flavia Blois in the East Anglia countryside, usually working in oils in her studio from ink notes made outdoors. She exhibited at the Royal Academy on a regular basis and with both the London Group and the New English Art Club. During her career she had three solo gallery shows. In 1948 Blois married Julian Snow who, in 1970, became a Life peer as Baron Burntwood, having previously been the Labour Party MP for Lichfield and Tamworth. Blois died in 1980 at Westminster in central London. Flavia Blois Flavia Ria Joan Blois, later Lady Burntwood, (28 December 1914 - 28 March 1980)