Name Guy Count | Died February 12, 1289 | |
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Children Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol, Hugh II, Count of Blois Parents Hugh I, Count of Blois, Mary, Countess of Blois Grandchildren Mahaut of Chatillon, Guy I, Count of Blois Grandparents Walter III of Chatillon, Margaret, Countess of Blois | ||
Great grandchildren Blanche of Valois | ||
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.
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, 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 six children:
He joined the Eighth Crusade (1270) and the ill-fated Crusade of Aragón of Philip III of France.
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