Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
Guy III | |
|---|---|
| Count of Saint-Pol | |
 Coat of arms of the Counts of Blois-Châtillon | |
| Died | 1289 |
| Noble family | Châtillon |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Issue | |
| Father | Hugh I, Count of Blois |
| Mother | Mary, Countess of Blois |
Guy III of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol (died 1289) was a French nobleman, and was a younger son of Hugh I, Count of Blois, and Mary, Countess of Blois.[1]
While his elder brother John I of Châtillon succeeded to their mother's County of Blois, Guy was given their father's county of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise at his death in 1248.
On January 16, 1255, he married Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois,[2] daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen, and thereafter was a supporter of his brother-in-law Henry III against Guelders. They had:
- Hugh II, Count of Blois.[3]
- Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol.
- Jacques, lord of Leuze-Châtillon.
- Beatrix (d. 1304), married John I of Brienne, Count of Eu[3]
- Jeanne, married Guillaume III de Chauvigny, Lord of Châteauroux
He joined the Eighth Crusade (1270) and the ill-fated Crusade of Aragón of Philip III of France.
References[edit]
- ^ Theodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 254.
- ^ "Maude of Brabant (1224–1288)." Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002. Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b M. A. Pollock, Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296, (The Boydell Press, 2015), 184.