Stephen II Count of Blois

  Noted events in his life were:

• fact. Count Stephen was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, often writing enthusiastic letters to Adela about the crusade's progress. He returned home in 1098 during the lengthy seige of Antioch, without fulfilling his crusading vow to forge a way to Jerusalem. He was pressured by Adela into making a second pilgrimage, and joined the minor crusade of 1101 in the company of others who had also returned home prematurely. In 1102, Stephen was killed in the Battle of Ramla at the age of fifty-seven.

Stephen married Adela De Normandie or of Blois, daughter of William I De Normandie and Matilda of Flanders, in 1080 in Chartres France. (Adela De Normandie or of Blois was born in 1062 in Normandy France and died on 8 Mar 1137 in Marcigny-sur-Loire France.)