Hugh I, Count of Blois, also known as Hugh I of Châtillon (c. 1198 – 9 April 1248)[1] was jure uxorisCount of Blois from 1230 to 1241, and Count of Saint Pol (as Hugh V) from 1226 to 1248.
Basile (d. 1280), became Abbess of Notre Dame du Val in 1248
Through his marriage Hugh became the first Count of Blois from the House of Châtillon. It marked the end of the first dynasty of Blois that lasted over 400 years. After the death of Marie, Hugh married Mahaut, sister of Baldwin III, Count of Guînes.
In 1226 the Cistercian nunnery Pont-aux-Dames in Couilly was founded by Hugh.[3] Later Hugh, with the assistance of Philip Mécringes, founded a Cistercian nunnery at Troissy called L'Amour-Dieu in 1232.[3]
Hugh intended to follow the pious king Louis IX when he started on the Seventh Crusade, but he died in 1248.[3]
Referencesedit
^ abcdeTheodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 223.
^ abcdTheodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, 254.
^ abcAnne E. Lester, Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth Century Champagne, (Cornell University Press, 2011), 157-158.
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