Editing Stephen, Count of Blois (section)

==Family==
Stephen married [[Adela of Normandy]],{{sfn|Evergates|2007|p=248}} a daughter of [[William the Conqueror]], around 1090 in [[Chartres]]. Their children were:
# [[William, Count of Sully]]{{sfn|Evergates|2007|p=248}}
# [[Theobald II, Count of Blois]]{{sfn|Evergates|2007|p=248}}
# Odo, who died young
# [[Stephen, King of England]]{{sfn|Evergates|2007|p=248}}
# Matilda,<ref>{{Citation |last=Johns |first=Susan M. |title=Countesses |date=2003 |work=Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm |pages=53–80 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt155jbk1.9?seq=5 |access-date=2024-11-29 |publisher=Manchester University Press}}</ref>  married [[Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester]]. Both drowned on 25 November 1120 in the ''[[White Ship]]'' disaster.
# [[Agnes of Blois|Agnes]], married [[Hugh III of Le Puiset]]{{sfn|Evergates|2016|p=x}}
#[[Eleanor of Champagne|Eleanor]] (died 1147) married [[Ralph I, Count of Vermandois]]; they were divorced in 1142.
# Alix (c. 1095 – 1145) married Renaud III of Joigni (d. 1134) and had issue
# Adelaide, married [[Milo II of Montlhéry]], Viscount of Troyes (divorced 1115)
# [[Henry, Bishop of Winchester]] (c. 1096 – 1171){{sfn|Evergates|2007|p=248}}
# Humbert, died young

A late 14th century source gives Stephen an illegitimate daughter Emma, wife of [[Herbert of Winchester]] and mother of [[William of York]], [[archbishop of York]],{{sfn|Davis|1967|p=172}} but recent research suggests a different parentage for her.<ref name=WilliamDNB>Burton "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9606 William of York (d. 1154)]" ''"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"''</ref>