Wilhelm (Blois)
Wilhelm (* 1090/93; † around 1150) was a Count of Blois and Chartres from the House of Blois . He was the eldest son of Count Stephan (Heinrich) von Blois and Adela von Normandy . On his mother's side he was the eldest grandson of Wilhelm the Conqueror .
Wilhelm succeeded his father, who had fallen on the crusade in 1102, as Count of Blois and Chartres, but because he was still a minor at that time he was under the tutelage of his mother. Around the year 1106/07, at the instigation of his mother, he was deposed as count in favor of the younger brother Theobald , because he allegedly suffered from a mental illness.
In the end, Wilhelm only owned the castle of Sully , which he had acquired through his marriage to her heiress, Agnes von Sully , around 1100 and which his descendants kept until the 14th century. His children were:
- Archambaud II (Odo) by Sully
- Raoul von Sully († 1177), Abbot of Cluny
- Henri de Sully († 1189), Abbot of Fécamp
- Margaret of Sully; ∞ with Count Heinrich I of Eu
- NN daughter , Abbess of Sainte-Trinité in Caen
literature
- Kimberly LoPrete: Adela of Blois as Mother and Countess , in Medieval Mothering , ed. by JC Parsons and B. Wheeler (1996), pp. 320-322
- Edmund King: Stephen of Blois, Count of Mortain and Boulogne , in: The English Historical Review Vol. 115 (2000), pp. 272-273
Individual proof
- ^ William of Newburgh , Historia rerum Anglicarum, Lib. I, Cap. IV , ed. by Hans Claude Hamilton (1856), p. 22
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Stephan Heinrich |
Count of Blois Count of Chartres 1102–1107 |
Theobald IV the Great |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Earl of Blois and Chartres, Lord of Sully |
DATE OF BIRTH | between 1090 and 1093 |
DATE OF DEATH | around 1150 |