Guy I, Count of Blois

I. Guido (Guy I de Châtillon, 1298 testifies † August 1342 ) was Count of Blois and Dunois, lord of Avesnes, Trélon, Guise, etc. He was the son of Hugh II of Châtillon, Count of Blois and Dunois ( House Châtillon ), and Beatrice of Flanders ( Dampierre house ). He is not to be confused with Guy I de Châtillon, lord of Châtillon ( 1076 testifies ) or Guy I de Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol (X 1226 ).

He married on October 6, 1310 Marguerite de Valois (* 1295, † July 1342 ), daughter of Charles I, Count of Valois ( Valois ) and Marguerite of Anjou - Sicily ( House of Anjou ), and sister of the later ( 1328 ) French King Philip VI .. They had three children:

• Louis I, Count of Blois and Soissons, lord of Avesnes, Chimay, Nouvion -en- thiérache etc. X August 26, 1346 at the Battle of Crécy; ∞ 5./10. November 1336 Joanna of Hainaut to Chimay, * 1323, † December 1350, daughter of Jean d' Avesnes, Count of Soissons and Marguerite de Nesle, Countess of Soissons (House Nesle )
• Charles, * 1319 X September 29, 1364, Mr. de Guise, 1341 Duke of Brittany, Count of Penthièvre and Goello, Viscount of Limoges; ∞ ( June 4 marriage contract 1337) Jeanne la boiteuse Countess of Penthièvre and Goello to Avaugour, Mayenne, etc., * 1319, † September 10, 1384, daughter of Guy de Dreux, Count of Penthièvre and Goelo
• Marie, † 1363; ∞ I ( dispensation May 30, 1334 ) Rudolf Duke of Lorraine, X August 26, 1346 at the Battle of Crécy; ∞ II Friedrich V, Count of Leiningen, † after 1379

1315 Guido took the war against Louis X. Flanders part. In addition, he became embroiled in disputes with its neighbors Burchard VI. , Count of Vendôme. From 1336, the beginning of the Hundred Years' War, he stood at the side of his brother Philip VI. against the English king Edward III ..

Guy of Blois was buried in the Abbey of La Guiche at Blois.