Margaret, Countess of Blois

Margaret of Blois
Seal of Margaret of Blois
Spouse(s)	Hugh of Oisy Otto I, Count of Burgundy Walter of Avesnes
Issue Joanna I, Countess of Burgundy Beatrice II, Countess of Burgundy Mary, Countess of Blois
Noble family	House of Blois
Father	Theobald V, Count of Blois
Mother	Alix of France
Born	c. 1170
Died	12 July 1230 (aged 59–60) Besançon

Margaret of Blois (French: Marguerite) (died 1230) was daughter of Theobald V of Blois and his wife Alix of France.^[1] She was suo jure countess of Blois from 1218 to 1230.

Marriage

Margaret married three times. Her first marriage was to Hugh of Oisy, Lord of Montmirail.^[1] Her second husband was Otto I, Count of Burgundy,^[1] with whom she had two daughters:

Finally, she married Walter II of Avesnes,^[2] they had:

Theobald, died young
Mary, Countess of Blois^[2]
Isabella, married John, lord of Oisy and Montreuil

Sources

1 2 3 Joachim Bumke, Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages, transl. Thomas Dunlap, (University of California Press, 1991), 76.
1 2 (FR)Henri Platelle, Présence de l'au-delà: une vision médiévale du monde, (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2004), 284.

Margaret, Countess of Blois House of Blois Born: c. 1170 Died: 12 July 1230
Preceded by Theobald VI	Countess of Blois 1218–1230	Succeeded by Mary

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