Background
He was the son of Stephen II, Count of Blois, and Adela of Normandy, and the elder brother of King Stephen of England. However, we know that his mother found him stubbornly resistant to control and unfit for wide ranging comital duties.
Several historians archbishop of Reims
He was the son of Stephen II, Count of Blois, and Adela of Normandy, and the elder brother of King Stephen of England. However, we know that his mother found him stubbornly resistant to control and unfit for wide ranging comital duties.
He held Auxerre, Maligny, Ervy, Troyes, and Châteauvillain as fiefs from Odo II, Duke of Burgundy. Several historians have painted William as mentally deficient, but this has never been substantiated. Theobald had no such problems.
Theobald accompanied his mother throughout their realm on hundreds of occasions and, after her retirement to Marcigney in 1125, he administered the family properties with great skill.
The war, which lasted two years (1142–1144), was marked by the occupation of Champagne by the royal army and the capture of Vitry-le-François, where many persons perished in the deliberate burning of the church by Louis. Abelard died at Cluny Abbey in Burgundy, a monastery supported by the Thebaudians for many centuries.
Their children were:
Henry I of Champagne
Theobald V of Blois, seneschal of France
Adèle of Champagne, married King Louis VII of France
Isabelle of Champagne, married 1. Roger of Apulia daughter 1148 & 2.
William Gouet IV daughter 1170
Marie of Champagne, married Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy, became Abbess of Fontevrault later in life.
William White Hands, 1135–1202, Archbishop of Reims 1176–1202, Cardinal 1179
Stephen I of Sancerre 1133–1191, Count of Sancerre and Crusader, died at the Siege of Acre
Agnes of Champagne (d 1207), Dame de Ligny married Renaut II of Bar (d 1170). Margaret of Champagne, nun at Fontevrault
Thibaut had an illegitimate son,
Hugh, (d1171), abbot of Lagny near Paris.