Europe · The early medieval west
County of Blois
drawn on the map AD 990–1401
Comté de Blois; capital Blois. A county of the middle Loire held by the powerful House of Blois-Champagne, which at its height under Odo/Eudes II (d. 1037) menaced the Capetians and held Champagne as well.
- Shown on the map
- AD 990–1401
- Peak area
- 39k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Comté de Blois; capital Blois. A county of the middle Loire held by the powerful House of Blois-Champagne, which at its height under Odo/Eudes II (d. 1037) menaced the Capetians and held Champagne as well. Members became kings of England (Stephen) and Navarre. Blois passed to the House of Châtillon and then, by sale, to Louis of Orléans (1391), becoming an Orléanist possession and ultimately merging into the crown lands.
Common questions
- What was the County of Blois?
- Comté de Blois; capital Blois. A county of the middle Loire held by the powerful House of Blois-Champagne, which at its height under Odo/Eudes II (d. 1037) menaced the Capetians and held Champagne as well.
- When is the County of Blois shown on the map?
- The border data draws the County of Blois AD 990–1401. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the County of Blois?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Blois covered about 39,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — County of Blois en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Blois
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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