Biography of Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness 1040-1115
Paternal Family Tree: Blois
On 15 Nov 1037 [his grandfather] Odo Blois II Count Blois (age 54) died. His son [his uncle] Theobald Blois III Count Blois (age 25) succeeded III Count Blois. His son [his father] Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux succeeded II Count Troyes and Meaux.
Before 1040 [his father] Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux and [his mother] Adele Unknown were married. He the son of Odo Blois II Count Blois and Ermengarde Auvergne Countess Blois (age 69).
Around 1040 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness was born to Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux and Adele Unknown.
In 1047 [his father] Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux died. His son Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 7) succeeded Count Troyes and Meaux.
In 1048 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 8) was created I Count Champagne.
Before 1049 Enguerrand Ponthieu II Count Ponthieu and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 18) were married. She by marriage Countess Ponthieu. She the daughter of Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy. He the son of Hugh Ponthieu II Count Ponthieu and Bertha Aumale Countess Aumale and Ponthieu.
Before 1049 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 9) and Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 18) were married. She by marriage Countess Troyes and Meaux, Countess Champagne. He by marriage Count Aumale. She the daughter of Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy. He the son of Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux and Adele Unknown.
Around 1050 Enguerrand Ponthieu II Count Ponthieu and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 20) were divorced.
Around 1053 Lambert Flanders II Count Lens (age 37) and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 23) were married. She the daughter of Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy. He the son of Eustace Flanders I Count Boulogne and Matilda Reginar Countess Boulogne.
After 1066 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 26) was created 1st Earl Holderness Feudal. There is some confusion around this creation. His wife, [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 36) may have been created Countess of Holderness with Odo holding it by right of his wife.
Around 1070 [his son] Stephen Blois Count Aumale was born to Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 30) and [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 40).
Before 1090 [his wife] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 60) died. Her son [his son] Stephen Blois Count Aumale (age 19) succeeded Count Aumale.
Before 1101 [his son] Stephen Blois Count Aumale (age 31) and [his daughter-in-law] Hawise Mortimer Countess Aumale were married. She by marriage Countess Aumale. He the son of Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 60) and Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu.
In 1115 Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness (age 75) died. His son [his son] Stephen Blois Count Aumale (age 45) succeeded 2nd Earl Holderness Feudal.
Kings Wessex: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings Franks: Great x 7 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Great x 3 Grandfather: Theobald "Elder" Blois
Great x 2 Grandfather: Theobald "Trickster" Blois I Count Blois
Great x 1 Grandfather: Odo Blois I Count Blois
Great x 4 Grandfather: Herbert Vermandois I Count Vermandois
Great x 3 Grandfather: Herbert Vermandois II Count Vermandois II Count Soissons II Count Meaux
Great x 2 Grandmother: Luitgarde Vermandois Duchess Normandy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert I King West Francia
Great x 3 Grandmother: Adela Capet Countess Vermandois, Soissons and Meaux
Great x 4 Grandmother: Aelis Unknown Queen Consort West Francia
GrandFather: Odo Blois II Count Blois
Great x 4 Grandfather: Rudolph I King Burgundy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Rudolph "Pious" II King Burgundy II King Italy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Conrad I King Burgundy
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bertha Swabia Queen Consort Italy
Great x 1 Grandmother: Bertha Welf Queen Consort France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles "Simple" III King West Francia
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis "Overseas" IV King West Francia
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eadgifu Wessex Queen Consort West Francia
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mathilde Carolingian Queen Consort Burgundy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry "Fowler" I King East Francia
Great x 3 Grandmother: Gerberga Saxon Ottonian Queen Consort West Francia
Great x 4 Grandmother: Matilda Ringelheim Queen Consort East Francia
Father: Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux
Great x 1 Grandfather: William IV Auvergne
GrandMother: Ermengarde Auvergne Countess Blois
Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness
Mother: Adele Unknown