"Which English Monarch was the ""Count de Blois""?"
Stephen, Count of Blois Stephen, Count of Blois Stephen II Henry (in French, "Étienne Henri", in Medieval French, "Estienne Henri"; – 19 May 1102), Count of Blois and Count of Chartres, was the son of Theobald III, count of Blois, and Gersent of Le Mans. He is numbered Stephen II after Stephen I, Count of Troyes. In 1089, upon the death of his father, he became the Count of Blois and Chartres, although Theobald had given him the administration of those holdings in 1074. He was the father of Stephen of England. Count Stephen was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, leading
Theobald I, Count of Blois Theobald I, Count of Blois Theobald I (913–975), called the Trickster ("le Tricheur" meaning cheater), was the first count of Blois, Chartres, and Châteaudun as well as count of Tours. Theobald I was the son of Theobald le Vieux of Blois, who from 908 on was viscomte of Tours. Theobald le Vieux's wife, the mother of Theobald I, was Richende De Bourges, a great-granddaughter of Rorgon I, Count of Maine. Theobald I was initially a vassal of Hugh the Great, Duke of France. Around 945, Louis IV was captured by Northmen and given over to Hugh the Great, who placed