Louis de Blois ( fr. Louis de Blois ; 1171 or 1172 - April 14, 1205 ) - Earl of Blois, Chartres and Chateauden since 1191, Earl of Clermont (for the rights of his wife). The son of Thibault V Blois and Alice of France - daughter of King Louis VII . Nephew of Philip II Augustus and Richard the Lionheart .
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In Blois, Chartres and Chateaudin, he inherited his father, in Clermont - father-in-law.
In 1196, he canceled the payment of tali for the inhabitants of Chateaudin.
In 1202 he went to the Fourth Crusade , participated in the capture of Constantinople. He received the title of Duke of Nicaea, which remained a pure formality, since the crusaders could not conquer this city.
April 14, 1205 died in the battle of Adrianople , in which the Bulgarians defeated the army of the Latin emperor Baldwin I.
Geoffrey de Villardouin writes of his last battle: “And the Earl of Louis, who was the first to engage in battle, was very seriously wounded in two places; and the komen and blaks began to squeeze them, and the count fell off his horse, and one of his knights, named Jean of Frieses, dismounted and put him on his horse. There were quite a few of the people of Count Louis who said to him: “Senior, leave: you are very badly wounded in two places,” and he said: “Our Lord God will not be pleased to be reproached me that I escaped from the battlefield and left the emperor. "(...) Count Louis was killed."
Louis de Blois was married to Catherine, Countess of Clermont, daughter of Count Raul I of Red . Their son Thibault VI de Blois (d. 1218) inherited the paternal and maternal possessions.