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Paternal Family Tree: Blois
1066 Coronation of William The Conqueror
1069 Murder of Robert de Comines Earl Northumbria
1087 King William "The Conqueror" Dies King William II Succeeds
Before 1040 [his father] Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux and [his mother] Adele Unknown were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Odo Blois II Count Blois and [his grandmother] Ermengarde Auvergne Countess Blois (age 69).
Around 1040 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness was born to Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux and Adele Unknown.
In 1047 [his father] Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux died. His son Odo (age 7) succeeded Count Troyes and Meaux.
In 1048 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 8) was created I Count Champagne.
Before 1049 Enguerrand Ponthieu II Count Ponthieu and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 18) were married. She by marriage Countess Ponthieu. She the daughter of Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy. He the son of Hugh Ponthieu II Count Ponthieu and Bertha Aumale Countess Aumale and Ponthieu. They were fourth cousin once removed.
Before 1049 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 8) and Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 18) were married. She by marriage Countess Troyes and Meaux, Countess Champagne. He by marriage Count Aumale. She the daughter of Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy. He the son of Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux and Adele Unknown. They were fourth cousin once removed.
Around 1050 Enguerrand Ponthieu II Count Ponthieu and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 20) were divorced.
Before 1051 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 22) and Matilda Flanders Queen Consort England (age 19) were married. She the daughter of Baldwin "The Good" V Count Flanders (age 38) and Adela Capet Duchess Normandy (age 41). He the illegitmate son of Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy and Herleva Falaise. They were third cousin once removed.
Around 1053 Lambert Flanders II Count Lens (age 37) and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 23) were married. She the daughter of Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy. He the son of Eustace Flanders I Count Boulogne and Matilda Reginar Countess Boulogne. They were fifth cousins.
After 1066 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 26) was created 1st Earl Holderness Feudal. There is some confusion around this creation. His wife, [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 36) may have been created Countess of Holderness with Odo holding it by right of his wife.
On 14th October 1066 the Norman army led by [his illegitimate brother-in-law] King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 38) defeated the English army of King Harold II of England (age 44) at the 14th October 1066 Battle of Hastings fought at Senlac Hill Hastings. Aimery Thouars (age 42), Ralph de Gael 2nd Earl East Anglia (age 24), Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne (age 51), William Fitzosbern 1st Earl Hereford (age 46), Geoffrey Chateaudun II Count Mortain III Count Perche, William Warenne 1st Earl of Surrey, Raoul Tosny, Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan (age 26), Hugh Grandesmil (age 34), Roger "The Great" Montgomery 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (possibly), Robert Mortain Count Mortain 1st Earl Cornwall (age 35) and Bishop Odo of Bayeux fought for William.
Brothers King Harold II of England was killed. Earl Wessex, Earl Hereford extinct.
His borthers Gyrth Godwinson Earl East Anglia (age 34) and Leofwine Godwinson 2nd Earl Kent (age 31), and Engenulphe Aigle (age 56) were killed. Earl Kent extinct.
On 25th December 1066 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 38) was crowned I King of England at Westminster Abbey [Map] by Archbishop Ealdred.
On 28th January 1069 Robert de Comines Earl Northumbria was burned to death in Durham, County Durham [Map] when a rebel army set fire to the house in which he was staying. All his men were killed. In retaliation [his illegitimate brother-in-law] King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 41) commenced the Harrying of the North.
Around 1070 [his son] Stephen Blois Count Aumale was born to Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 30) and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 40).
In 1070 Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon and Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon (age 16) were married. She by marriage Earldorman Northumbria, Countess Huntingdon. She, Judith, a niece of [his illegitimate brother-in-law] King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 42). She the daughter of Lambert Flanders II Count Lens and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 40). He the son of Siward "Stout" Earl of Northumbria and Aelfflaed Northumbria.
On 9th September 1087 [his illegitimate brother-in-law] King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 59) died at the Priory of St Gervaise, Rouen [Map]. He was buried at the Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen [Map], at a ceremony presided over by Gilbert Arques Bishop Evreux. King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 19) attended. His son William (age 31) succeeded II King of England. His son Robert (age 36) succeeded III Duke Normandy.
Before 1090 [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 59) died. Her son [his son] Stephen (age 19) succeeded Count Aumale.
Before 1101 [his son] Stephen Blois Count Aumale (age 30) and [his daughter-in-law] Hawise Mortimer Countess Aumale were married. She by marriage Countess Aumale. He the son of Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 60) and [his former wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1115 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 75) died. His son [his son] Stephen (age 45) succeeded 2nd Earl Holderness Feudal.
Kings Franks: Great x 8 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 3 Grandfather: Theobald "Elder" Blois
Great x 2 Grandfather: Theobald "Trickster" Blois I Count Blois
Great x 1 Grandfather: Odo Blois I Count Blois
Great x 4 Grandfather: Herbert Vermandois I Count Vermandois
Great x 3 Grandfather: Herbert Vermandois II Count Vermandois II Count Soissons II Count Meaux
Great x 2 Grandmother: Luitgarde Vermandois Duchess Normandy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert I King West Francia
Great x 3 Grandmother: Adela Capet Countess Vermandois, Soissons and Meaux
Great x 4 Grandmother: Aelis Unknown Queen Consort West Francia
GrandFather: Odo Blois II Count Blois
Great x 4 Grandfather: Rudolph I King Burgundy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Rudolph "Pious" II King Burgundy II King Italy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Conrad I King Burgundy
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bertha Swabia Queen Consort Italy
Great x 1 Grandmother: Bertha Welf Queen Consort France
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis "Overseas" IV King West Francia
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mathilde Carolingian Queen Consort Burgundy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry "Fowler" I King East Francia
Great x 3 Grandmother: Gerberga Saxon Ottonian Queen Consort West Francia
Great x 4 Grandmother: Matilda Ringelheim Queen Consort East Francia
Father: Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux
Great x 1 Grandfather: William IV Auvergne
GrandMother: Ermengarde Auvergne Countess Blois
Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness
Mother: Adele Unknown