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
Flavia Blois Flavia Blois Flavia Ria Joan Blois, later Lady Burntwood, (28 December 1914 - 28 March 1980) was a British landscape artist. Blois was born at Cockfield Hall at Yoxford in Suffolk into the Blois family. Her father was Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, a baronet, and her mother was Winifred Grace Blois née Kennard. Flavia Blois studied art in London, first at the Chelsea School of Art and then at the Euston Road School. She studied in Paris during 1939 and 1940 after which she turned away from portrait painting to depicting landscapes and street scenes. Blois painted many landscapes