Theobald II of Champagne, Count of Champagne, Blois, and Chartres

Male 1090 - 1152  (62 years)


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  • Name Theobald II of Champagne 
    Suffix Count of Champagne, Blois, and Chartres 
    Born 1090 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1152 
    Buried Abbaye Saint-Pierre, Lagny-sur-Marne, Departement de Seine-et-Marne Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    • Wikipedia
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_II,_Count_of_Champagne

      He was Count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV from 1102 and was Count of Champagne and of Brie as Theobald II from 1125. He was the son of Stephen II, Count of Blois, and Adela of Normandy, and the elder brother of King Stephen of England. Theobald accompanied his mother throughout their realm on hundreds of occasions and, after her retirement to the convent at Marcigney in 1125, he administered the family properties with great skill. Adela died in her beloved convent in 1136, the year after her son Stephen was crowned king of England.

      King Louis VII of France became involved in a war with Theobald by permitting Count Raoul I of Vermandois to repudiate his wife Eleanor, Theobald's sister, and to marry Petronilla of Aquitaine, sister of the queen of France. The war, which lasted two years (1142-1144), was marked by the occupation of Champagne by the royal army.

      In 1123 he married Matilda of Carinthia, daughter of Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia.

      Their children were:

      1. Henry I of Champagne

      2. Theobald V of Blois, seneschal of France

      3. Adèle of Champagne, married King Louis VII of France

      4. Isabelle of Champagne, married 1. Roger of Apulia d. 1148 & 2. William Gouet IV d. 1170

      5. Marie of Champagne, married Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy,

      6. William White Hands, 1135-1202, Archbishop of Reims 1176-1202, Cardinal 1179

      7. Stephen I of Sancerre 1133-1191, Count of Sancerre and Crusader, died at the Siege of Acre

      8. Agnes of Champagne (d. 1207), Dame de Ligny married Renaut II of Bar (d. 1170)

      9. Margaret of Champagne, nun at Fontevrault

      10. Matilda, wife of Rotrou IV, Count of Perche


    Person ID I36281  Master File
    Last Modified 10 Oct 2016 

    Family Matilda of Carinthia,   b. ca 1108,   d. 13 Dec 1161  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Children 
     1. Marie of Champagne,   b. 1128, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Aug 1190, Pays de la Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
    Last Modified 10 Oct 2016 
    Family ID F14976  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart