Mary (Marie) OF BLOIS
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Mary OF BLOIS's parents: Stephen OF BLOIS (1096?-1154) and Matilda OF BOULOGNE (1105?-1152)
Mary OF BLOIS's brother: Eustace IV OF BOULOGNE (1120?-1153)

Mary (Marie) OF BLOIS (1136-1182)

Name: Mary (Marie) OF BLOIS 1
Sex: Female
Father: Stephen OF BLOIS (1096?-1154)
Mother: Matilda OF BOULOGNE (1105?-1152)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth 1136
Occupation frm 11 Oct 1159 to 1170 (age 22-34) Countess of Boulogne
Group/Caste Membership House of Blois
Religion Roman Catholic
Death 1182 (age 45-46) St Austrebert, Montreuil, France

Marriage

Spouse Matthew OF ALSACE (1137?-1173)
Children Mathilde OF FLANDERS (1170-1211)
Status Divorced
Marriage 1160 (age 23-24)

Individual Note

Marie of Boulogne (1136 – 1182 in St Austrebert, Montreuil, France) was the Countess of Boulogne from 1159 to 1170.

 

Marie was born to King Stephen of England and his wife Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne. At an early age, she was apparently placed in a convent, but she became her childless brother William's heir in 1159. Matthew of Alsace (c.1130-1173) abducted the heiress from her convent in 1160, and made her his wife in defiance of her religious vows, thus becoming Count of Boulogne and co-ruler. The marriage was annulled in 1169, and she re-entered the religious life at St. Austrebert, Montreuil, where she died in 1182.[1] Her former husband Matthew continued to reign as Count of Boulogne until his death in 1173, when their daughter Ida became the Countess. Marie's second daughter Mathilde of Flanders married Henry I, Duke of Brabant in 1179 and they produced six children.

 

NOTES:

1 Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy. Vintage Books, 2008.2

Note on Marriage to Matthew OF ALSACE

1170

Sources

1Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 158, 165-26; 160, 169-26.
2"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de_Boulogne.