Étienne comté de Blois
- Born: Abt 1045-1046, Blois, Loir-Et-Cher 180,883
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Marriage (2): Adela de Normandy Princess of England
- Died: 19 May 1102, Battle of Ramleh, Holy Land about age 57 180,883
 Another name for Étienne was Stephen II Count of Blois.
General Notes:
~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 137:23, 139:23, 169:24, 262:26, Stephen of Blois, a leader in the First Crusade, married Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conqueror. Stephen was the count of Champagne, Brie, Blois and Chartres. He was killed by Turks in the Crusade of 1101/02. Children of Adele and Stephen were Theobald IV, Count of Blois and Champagne; William of Champagne; and Stephen of Blois, King of England. 160
~ Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. II, p. 277 529
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information: 883
Étienne II, comté de Blois, son of Theobald III, comté de Blois married Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conqueror. They married in 1080 in Breteuil, France, and again in 1981 at Chrtres Cathedral. He succeeded his father as Count of Blois, Brie, Cartres and Meaux sometime before 1090. Étienne died during the siege of Ramula in the Holy Land.
~ Weir's Britain's Royal Families, The Complete Geneaology, p. 51
• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Étienne de Blois was the son of Thibaut III comté de Blois and either his first wife, Gersend du Maine or his second wife, Gundrada. He was murdered in Ramiaon 19 May 1102 [Obituaires de Sens Tome II, Eglise cathédrale de Chartres, Nécrologe du xi sičcle, p. 13.]. Étienne married Adela of England, the daughter of William I "the Conqueror" King of England and his wife Mathilde de Flandre.
"The Liber Modernorum Regum Francorum names (in order) "Stephanus et Hugo" as sons of "comes Tetbaudus", specifying that Etienne "factus est Blesensium Carnotensium atque Meldensium comes" on their father's death [Hugonis Floriacensis, Liber qui Modernorum Regum Francorum continet Actus 11, MGH SS IX, p. 390]. Orderic Vitalis names "Stephanus Blesensis palatinus comes...Tedbaldi filius...palatini consulis et nepos Bertć Britnum comitissć et Cenomannensium" when recording his marriage [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber V, XI, p. 393]. Orderic Vitalis records the betrothal "apud Bretolium" of "Stephanus Blesensis palatinus comes" and "Guillelmo rege...Adelam eius filiam" and their marriage "apud Carnotum," dated to 1081 [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. II, Liber V, XI, p. 393]."
Étienne married.
Étienne next married Adela de Normandy Princess of England, daughter of William I "The Conqueror" de Normandy King Of England and Matilda de Flandres et de Falaise. (Adela de Normandy Princess of England was born about 1062 in Normandy,1078 died on 8 Mar 1136-1137 in Marcigny-sur-Loire, France 529,1078 and was buried in Église de La Sainte Trinitae, Caen, Normandy 1078.)
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