List of English Monarchs - House of Blois

House of Blois

Name Portrait Birth Marriages Death Claim
Stephen

22 December
1135–1154		 c. 1096
Blois
son of Stephen, Count of Blois, and Adela of Normandy		 Matilda of Boulogne
Westminster
1125
five children		 25 October 1154
Dover Castle
aged about 58 from dysentery		 grandson of William I
(appointment/ usurpation)

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