Guy II, Count of Blois
Guido II of Châtillon (franz: Guy II de Châtillon, † December 22, 1397 in Avesnes ) was a Count of Blois, Dunois and Soissons, and Lord of Avesnes Chimay and out of the house Châtillon. He was a younger son of Count Louis I of Blois († 1346 ) and the Jeanne d' Avesnes, Countess of Soissons.
After his mother died of the plague in 1350, Guido inherited from her the county Soissons. In the wake of the Peace of Brétigny in 1360 he had to move as a hostage for King John II to the English court. Since he could not afford to set for him ransom he exchanged in 1367 for his freedom, with the consent of the French crown, his county at King Edward III. of England over them, and handed it to the Sire Enguerrand VII de Coucy. In 1370, Guido took part in a trip Prussia and then served in the Guyenne and Flanders, where he fought in the Battle of Roosebeke. In 1381 he inherited from his brother, John II, the counties of Blois and Dunois. Due to the devastation of the Hundred Years War, Pestwellen and rural exodus, the country was ailing. Due to its impoverishment Guido could not stand the he promoted historian Jean Froissart, which is why in Enguerrand de Coucy VII sought a new patron.
Since August 22, 1370 Guido was with Mary of Namur († 1412 ), a daughter of Margrave William I of Namur from the house Dampierre married. They had a son and heir, Louis, whom she married a daughter of the powerful Duke Jean de Berry. The son died in 1391, however, without leaving descendants, what Guido said to have fallen for the rest of his life in a deep mourning. Supposedly have become excessively thick by immoderate gluttony he and his wife.
1391 Guido sold its counties for 200,000 livres to the Duke Louis of Orléans and retired with his wife to Avesnes back, which he after his death his cousin, Count Johann I of Penthièvre bequeathed. Chimay he sold each one half of Thibault de Moreuil and Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy.
Guido was buried in the Church of the Cordeliers of Valenciennes. With him ended the line of the house of Blois Châtillon.