Background
In 1169, a delegation led by Archbishop Frederick de la Roche arrived in France to seek a husband for Sibylla, the daughter of King Amalric I of Jerusalem.
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Stephen Stephen I of Sancerre
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Career
Stephen accepted the offer and travelled east with Duke Hugh III of Burgundy in 1170. He brought with him the monies raised by King Louis VII"s tax of 1166, which had been levied for four or five years. Stephen"s account of how Louis raised the money may have influenced the general tax levied in Jerusalem in 1183.
Stephen divided it up equally, but ordered the younger two to do homage to the eldest.
After several months in the Holy Land, Stephen refused to marry Sibylla and returned home. In Sancerre, Stephen built a six-towered castle on the local hill and strengthened the fortifications of the town of Sancerre itself.
In 1155, he granted the Customs of Lorris to the merchants of the town and probably seven others He was the de facto leader among a group of powerful baronial rebels against King Philip Augustus between 1181 and 1185.
In 1184, he and a band of Brabançon mercenaries were defeated by the king and his Confrères de la Paix, an organisation of warriors formed in 1182 in Le Puy dedicated to curbing feudal warfare.
He died before 21 October 1190 at the Siege of Acre, and Theobald died there a few months later in January 1191.
