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The House of Châtillon was a notable French family, with origins in the 9th century. The name comes from that of Châtillon-sur-Marne in Champagne, where members of the family were tenants in a castle belonging to the Counts of Champagne. [1]
Hugh I, Count of Blois, also known as Hugh I of Châtillon (c. 1198 – 9 April 1248) [1] was jure uxoris Count of Blois from 1230 to 1241, and Count of Saint Pol (as Hugh V) from 1226 to 1248. Hugh was son of Gaucher III of Châtillon and Elisabeth , daughter of Hugo IV, Count of Saint-Pol . [ 1 ]
Guy IV of Châtillon, Count of Saint Pol (c. 1254 – 6 April 1317) was a French nobleman. He was the son of Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol and Matilda of Brabant . In 1292, he married Marie of Brittany , [ 1 ] daughter of John II, Duke of Brittany and Beatrice of England .
Charles of Blois (d. 1364) [2] - would marry Joanna, Duchess of Brittany; Charles and the French would engage in the Breton War of Succession against the House of Montfort and the English [3] Marie of Blois, married in 1334 Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1346), [4] married secondly Frederick VII , Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg.
Guy V of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol (d. 1360 in London) was a French nobleman. He was a member of the House of Châtillon and was the son of Count John of Saint-Pol (d. 1344) and his wife Johanna of Fiennes. In the Hundred Years' War, he served as a royal commander (lieutenant du roi) in the French army.
Seal (sugullum) of Hugh II of Chatillion, count of Blois and lord of Avesn: S[IGILLUM] HUGONIS DE CASTELLIONE COMITIS BLESENSIS ET D[OMI]NI DE AVESNIS. Hugh II of Châtillon (died 1307), son of Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol, and Matilda of Brabant, was count of St Pol 1289–1292 and Count of Blois 1292–1307. [1]
Louis was the eldest son of Guy I, Count of Blois and Margaret of Valois, the sister of King Philip VI of France. [1] Born into the House of Châtillon, Louis was part of a prestigious military family with strong connections to the royal House of Valois and with great possessions in northeastern France centred around the county of Blois.
She was the daughter of John I, Count of Blois and Alix of Brittany, Dame de Pontarcy. Joan received the County of Chartres from her father during his life; she later sold these lands to Philip IV of France in 1286. She ceded the lordship of Avesnes to her cousin Hugh before her death. When she died in 1291 the other titles were left to him also.