- Source: Armies of Stephen of Blois on the First Crusade and the Crusade of 1101
The armies of Count Stephen of Blois participated in both the First crusade" target="_blank">Crusade of 1096 and the crusade" target="_blank">Crusade of 1101. Stephen apparently fled the battlefield at the Siege of Antioch and returned home. He was coerced by his wife, Adela of Normandy, to form another army to return to the Holy Land in 1101, accompanied by Count Stephen I of Burgundy.
The known members of the army, which numbered in the thousands, include the ones listed below, as reported in histories of the First crusade" target="_blank">Crusade and the crusade" target="_blank">Crusade of 1101. Unless otherwise noted, references are to the on-line database of Riley-Smith, et al, and the hyperlinks therein provide details including original sources. The names below are also referenced in the Riley-Smith tome, Appendix I: Preliminary List of Crusaders. Those references are not shown unless they appear elsewhere in the text of the afore mentioned book. Articles that are hyperlinked to a more detailed article in this encyclopædia rely on the latter for references.
First crusade" target="_blank">Crusade
The members of Stephen's first army are identified from a number of sources. Runciman names the following members of Stephen’s army that participated in the First crusade" target="_blank">Crusade::
Everald of Le Puits (Éverard III of Puiset, Viscount of Chartres)
Guerin Gueronat (Guernonatus), son of Hugh Guernonatus (see below)
Richard “Carus Asini” (Caro Asini)
Geoffrey Geurin
Alexander, chaplin and vice-legate to Stephen
Fulcher of Chartres, later chaplin to King Baldwin from 1097 until his death.
According to Riley-Smith, “...the entire ruling class of Chartres took the cross--the vidame and his brother, and the viscount--together with the provost and perhaps two canons of the cathedral, the castellans of Mondoubleau, Fréteval, Gallardon and Beaugency, and the prévôt of Blois...” These individuals included:
Nivelo of Fréteval
Garin of Gallardo
Hugh I of Gallardo
Hugh Guernonatus, the Prévôt of Blois, plus his son Guarin
Other members of the army included the following:
Hugh I of Le Puiset
Miles of Bray, Viscount of Troyes and Castellan of Bray, son of Milo I of Montlhéry
Odo I of Burgundy
Walbert, Castellan of Laon
Grimoald of Maule
Guy Pagan of Garlande, seneschal of King Philip I of France, who distinguished himself in the seizing of the Iron Bridge at Antioch
Odo of Beaugency, Standard-bearer of Stephen, uncle of William II of Nevers
Ralph of La Fontanelle, who travelled with Éverard III of Puiset
William Marchisi Filius, nephew of Bohemond of Taranto.
crusade" target="_blank">Crusade of 1101
The army of Stephen supporting the crusade" target="_blank">Crusade of 1101 included the following:
Baldwin of Grandpré
Dodo of Clermont-en-Argonne
Engelrand of Coucy, Bishop of Laon
Guy II the Red of Rochefort and his brother Milo I, Lord of Montlhéry, both part of the Lombard contingent
Hugh of Burgundy (Hugo III), Archbishop of Besançon, son of William I, Count of Burgundy
Hugh of Die, Archbishop of Lyons
Hugh Bardoul (Bardolf) II of Broyes
Joscelin I of Courtenay, later Count of Edessa.
Sources
Runciman, Steven, A History of the Crusades, Volume One: The First crusade" target="_blank">Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Cambridge University Press, London, 1951
Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The First Crusaders, 1095-1131, Cambridge University Press, London, 1997
Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The First crusade" target="_blank">Crusade and the Idea of Crusading, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986 (available on Google Books)
Prof. J. S. C. Riley-Smith, Prof, Jonathan Phillips, Dr. Alan V. Murray, Dr. Guy Perry, Dr. Nicholas Morton, A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land, 1099-1149 (available on-line)