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Birth:          1090 of Blois, France
Death:          8 Jan 1152 Ligny
Burial:         10 Jan 1152 

Notes
d 8/10 Jan 1151/2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_II,_Count_of_Champagne
Theobald the Great (French: Thibaut de Blois) (1090–1152) 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 held Auxerre, Maligny, Ervy, Troyes, and Châteauvillain as fiefs from Odo II, Duke 
of Burgundy. He was the son of Stephen II, Count of Blois, and Adela of Normandy, 
and the elder brother of King Stephen of England. Although he was the second son, 
Theobald was appointed above his older brother William. Several historians have 
painted William as mentally deficient, but this has never been substantiated. However, 
we know that his mother found him stubbornly resistant to control and unfit for wide 
ranging comital duties. Theobald had no such problems.

Theobald accompanied his mother throughout their realm on hundreds of occasions 
and, after her retirement to 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.[1]

King Louis VII of France became involved in a war with Theobald by permitting Count 
Raoul I of Vermandois and seneschal of France, 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 and the capture of Vitry-le-François, where many 
persons perished in the deliberate burning of the church by Louis. The scholastic 
Pierre Abélard, famous for his love affair with and subsequent marriage to his student 
Héloïse, sought asylum in Champagne during Theobald II's reign. Abelard died at 
Cluny Abbey in Burgundy, a monastery supported by the Thebaudians for many 
centuries.

In 1123 he married Matilda of Carinthia, daughter of Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia.[2]

Their children were:
Henry I of Champagne[2]
Theobald V of Blois, seneschal of France[2]
Adèle of Champagne, married King Louis VII of France[2]
Isabelle of Champagne, married 1. Roger of Apulia d. 1148 & 2. William Gouet IV d. 
1170
Marie of Champagne, married Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy, became Abbess of 
Fontevrault later in life.[3]
William White Hands, 1135–1202, Archbishop of Reims 1176–1202, Cardinal 1179[2]
Stephen I of Sancerre 1133–1191, Count of Sancerre[2] and Crusader, died at the 
Siege of Acre
Agnes of Champagne (d. 1207), Dame de Ligny married Renaut II of Bar (d. 1170).[4]
Margaret of Champagne, nun at Fontevrault
Matilda, wife of Rotrou IV, Count of Perche[5]

Thibaut had an illegitimate son,
Hugh, (d.1171), abbot of Lagny near Paris[2]

Parents
OF BLOIS Stephen [chg from Henry] (Etienne Henri) III "Le Sage" (ABT 1045 - 27 May 1102)
OF NORMANDY Adele (Alice) (ABT 1062 - 8 Mar 1137)

Siblings
DE CHAMPAGNE William ("the Simple") (ABT 1080 - ABT 1150)
OF BLOIS Theobald (Thibaud) IV (II) "the Great" (1090 - 8 Jan 1152)
OF BLOIS Stephen (ABT 1095 - 25 Oct 1154)

Marriage To VON SPONHEIM Mathilde (Maud) (ABT 1097 - 13 Dec 1160)
    m. 1123 

Notes

Parents
____ Englebert II (ABT 1065 - 13 Apr 1141)
VON PASSAU (SULZBACH) Uta (Utha) (ABT 1065 - AFT 1140)

Children by VON SPONHEIM Mathilde (Maud) ABT 1097 - 13 Dec 1160
____ Henry (Henri) I "the Generous" (1127 - 16 Mar 1181)
DE CHAMPAGNE Marie (1128 - 17 Aug 1190)
OF BLOIS Agnes (ABT 1138 - 7 Aug 1207)
OF BLOIS Adelaide (Adele) (Alix) (ABT 1140 - 4 Jun 1206)
OF BLOIS Maud (Mahaut) (ABT 1142 - BEF 1189)

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