Guido I. (Blois)

Guido I. (Guy I. de Châtillon, attested in 1298, † August 1342 ) was Count of Blois and Dunois , Lord of Avesnes , Trélon , Guise etc. He was the son of Hugo II of Châtillon , Count of Blois and Dunois ( House of Châtillon ), and Beatrix of Flanders ( House of Dampierre ). He is not to be confused with Guy I. de Châtillon, Lord of Châtillon (attested in 1076) or Guy I. de Châtillon , Count of Saint-Pol (X 1226).

He married Marguerite de Valois on October 6, 1310 (* around 1295 - † July 1342), daughter of Count Charles I of Valois ( House of Valois ) and Marguerite of Anjou-Sicily ( House of Anjou ), and sister of the later (1328) French King Philip VI. They had three children:

• Louis I , Count of Blois and Soissons , Lord of Avesnes, Chimay , Nouvion-en-Thiérache etc. X August 26, 1346 at the Battle of Crécy ; ⚭ 5th / 10th November 1336 Johanna von Hennegau, zu Chimay, * 1323, † December 1350, daughter of Jean d'Avesnes, Count of Soissons and Marguerite de Nesle , Countess of Soissons ( House Nesle )
• Charles , * 1319, X 29 September 1364, lord of Guise, 1341 Duke of Brittany , Count of Penthièvre and Goëllo , Vice-Count of Limoges ; ⚭ (marriage contract June 4, 1337) Jeanne la Boiteuse Countess of Penthièvre and Goello, zu Avaugour , Mayenne etc., * 1319, † September 10, 1384, daughter of Guy de Dreux, Count of Penthièvre and Goelo
• Marie, † 1363; ⚭ I (dispensation May 30, 1334) Rudolf Duke of Lorraine , X August 26, 1346 in the battle of Crécy ; ⚭ II Friedrich V. Count of Leiningen , † after 1379

In 1315 Guido took part in the war of Louis X against Flanders . In addition, he got involved in disputes with his neighbor Burchard VI. , Count of Vendôme . From 1336, the beginning of the Hundred Years War , he stood at the side of his brother-in-law Philip VI. against the English King Edward III.

Guido von Blois was buried in La Guiche Abbey near Blois .

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Volume VII (1979) Plate 18

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo II	Count of Blois Count of Dunois 1307–1342	Ludwig I.