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    his brother was unavailable, Henry of Blois was the most powerful and wealthiest man in England. Stephen of Blois was crowned King of England in 1135,...
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    Stephen Henry (in French, Étienne Henri, in Medieval French, Estienne Henri; c. 1045 – 19 May 1102) was the Count of Blois and Count of Chartres. He led an...
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    2019, Blois is the most populated city of the department, and the 4th of the region. Historically, the city was the capital of the County of Blois, created...
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    completed by the daughter of Henri Hurault and Marguerite, marquise de Montglas, by 1650, employing craftsmen from Blois. Burdette Henri Martin IV played a key...
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    the Abbé Grégoire, was a French Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent slavery abolitionist and supporter...
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    Mademoiselle de Blois, a style once held by her older half-sister Marie Anne de Bourbon, a legitimised daughter of the king by Louise de La Vallière....
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    Margaret of Blois (French: Marguerite; died 1230) was suo jure Countess of Blois in France from 1218 to 1230. From 1190 to 1200, she was the countess consort...
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    formerly the residence of the Bishops of Winchester. Built in 1138 by Henri de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, grandson of William the Conqueror, Farnham castle...
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    The first castle on this site, situated between Blois and Amboise, was built by Odo I, Count of Blois, in the 10th century, with the purpose of protecting...
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  • Hank Harrison was the first, in 1992, to suggest the author was Bishop Henri de Blois, the brother of King Stephen and the Abbot of Glastonbury. The strangeness...
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