Eudes DE BLOIS

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Type Value Date Place Sources
name Eudes DE BLOIS
[1]
title Eudes I Comte de Blois, de Chartres, de Châteaudun, de Tours, de
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Events

Type Date Place Sources
death BET 12 FEB AND 04 JUL 995
[1]
burial
Abbaye de Saint-Martin, Marmoutier, Tours Find persons in this place
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Sources

1 Foundation for Medieveal Geneology, Central France: Chapter 1: Comtes de Blois
Author: Charles Cawley
Publication: Name: Medeival Lands; Location: Oak House, Vowchurch, Hereford, HR20RB, England; Date: 2001-2011;
  As in the case of the northern part of France, the central part of thecountry experienced little political unity throughout the medievalperiod. The nobility shown here under "Central France" is thereforegrouped together mainly for geographical convenience. The area lies to the south of Paris, bordered to the west by thecounties of Anjou and Maine, to the south by the county of Poitou andduchy of Aquitaine, and to the east by the county of Champagne and theduchy of Burgundy. It represented a jurisdictional middle groundwithin these mainly stable counties and duchies which, from earlyMerovingian times, was sliced along different lines by the competingmembers of the dynasty. After the death in 511 of King Clovis I, thearea achieved political unity for the only time in its history as partof the larger territory which fell to his son King Chlodomer whoestablished his capital at Orléans and controlled most of the lowerLoire valley from the coast, including Tours, Chartres, Sens andAuxerre[1]. This unity was short-lived as, after Chlodomer was killedin 524, his brothers divided his territories between themselves. Thecentral area, covering Tours, Orléans and the future county of Blois,was amalgamated with the northern territories ruled by King Childebertfrom Paris, while the eastern part was linked to Burgundy under KingTheoderich. At the 561 partition after the death of King Clotaire,the border changed, the western part of the area, which mainlyconsisted of Blois, remained with the kingdom of Paris under KingCharibert while Orléans was joined to the Burgundian kingdom ruled byKing Gontran[2]. These divisions were perpetuated with theestablishment of the definitive boundaries of the kingdoms ofAustrasia and Neustria, with the additional change by which the areato the south of Orléans was incorporated into Neustria. With theCarolingian partition under the treaty of Verdun in 843 the whole areawas firmly within the kingdom of the West Franks. These partitions echo the experience of the northern part of France,and also that of the area covered by the future county of Champagne.It is suggested that this early failure to establish politicalcohesion had a profound effect on the later development of all theseareas, contrasting sharply with the relative stability and sense ofregional unity which was achieved by other parts of France during themiddle medieval period. Another factor which applied particularly inthe case of central France was the division of ecclesiasticaljurisdiction, which inevitably had political repercussions.Ecclesiastical power was split three ways in the area. Tours fellwithin the archbishopric of the same name. The bishoprics of Bloisand Orléans were within the province of Sens, while the archbishopricof Bourges retained control over the territory around that town. The counties covered in this part of central France were Chartres andChâteaudun in the north-west and, in the southern part from west toeast, Blois, Bourges, Tours, Orléans, Gâtinais, and Sancerre. Thehistory of each county developed in markedly different ways, asdiscussed in more detail in the introductions to each chapter of thepresent document. The county of Blois remained in the same familyfrom the early 10th to the early 13th centuries. The family expandedits territories to include the counties of Tours, Chartres andChâteaudun in the mid-10th century. They acquired Sancerre in theearly 11th century, although this was split off in 1152 to provide anappanage for a junior branch of the family. The acquisition by thecounts of Blois of the county of Troyes, some time in the 1020s,represented the start of a shift in their centre of activities towardsthe area of Champagne. In 1231, the county of Blois was inherited bythe Seigneurs de Châtillon-sur-Marne, who were already also counts ofSaint-Pol in northern France. The history of the county of Bourgeshas not been traced after the mid-9th century, but it is supposed thatit was incorporated into the domaine royale at an early stage. Thegeographically extensive county of Orléans, at the heart of the area,was incorporated into the domaine royale of the Capetian kings withthe accession of Hugues "Capet" in 987[3]. The counts of Gâtinaisinherited the county of Anjou in 1067, an unforeseen result of adynastic marriage in [1035]. However, Gâtinais was transferred to thedomaine royale shortly afterwards, as a result of the war between thebrothers Geoffroy III "le Barbu" Comte d'Anjou and Foulques IV "leRechin"[4]. Other families set out in this document include the Sires de Sully,whose lordship passed by marriage in the early 12th century to acollateral line of the counts of Blois, the Seigneurs d´Amboise whoseterritory lay within the county of Tours, the Seigneurs de Frétevalwithin the county of Chartres, the Seigneurs de Baugency within thecounty of Orléans, the Seigneurs de Château-Landon and the Vicomtes deFessard whose territories originally were fiefdoms of the county ofGâtinais, and the Seigneurs de Vierzon whose territory lay within theformer county of Bourges.

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