Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol

Guy III

Coat of arms of the Counts of Blois-Châtillon
Spouse(s) Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois
Father Hugh I, Count of Blois
Mother Mary, Countess of Blois
Died 1289

Guy III of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol (died 1289) was a French nobleman, and was a younger son of Hugh I, Count of Blois and Mary, Countess of Blois.[1]

While his elder brother John I of Châtillon succeeded to their mother's County of Blois, Guy was given their father's county of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise at his death in 1248.

On January 16, 1255, he married Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois,[2] daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen, and thereafter was a supporter of his brother-in-law Henry III against Guelders. They had six children:

He joined the Eighth Crusade (1270) and the ill-fated Crusade of Aragón of Philip III of France.

References

  1. Theodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 254.
  2. "Maude of Brabant (1224–1288)." Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002. HighBeam Research. (October 14, 2012). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591306344.html
  3. 1 2 M. A. Pollock, Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296, (The Boydell Press, 2015), 184.
Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
Died: 1289
Preceded by
Hugh V
Count of Saint Pol
12481289
Succeeded by
Hugh VI
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