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Theobald de Blois, Comte de Champagne et Brie

Spanish: Conde Teobaldo III de Champagne, Comte de Champagne et Brie
Also Known As: "Thibaut III", "Count of Champagne & Brie"
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Birthplace: Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Death: May 24, 1201 (22)
Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
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Son of Henri I de Blois 'le Libéral', count of Champagne & Brie and Marie Capet de France, comtesse de Champagne
Husband of Blanche de Navarre, comtesse consort de Champagne
Father of Blanca de Champagne; Teobaldo I el Cantautor, rey de Navarra and Margarita de Navarra
Brother of Henri 'le Jeune' de Champagne, comte de Champagne; Scholastique de Champagne and Marie de Champagne

Occupation: Conde de Champagne, Count of Champagne from 1197 to his death., Greve i champagne och Brie, Count of Champagne, Comte de Troyes et de Meaux, Conde de Troyes y de Meaux, Conde de Champagne et Brie
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About Thibault III de Blois, comte de Champagne

Theobald III (French: Thibaut; 13 May 1179 – 24 May 1201) was Count of Champagne from 1197 to his death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_III,_Count_of_Champagne

Theobald was the younger son of Henry I of Champagne and Marie, a daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He succeeded as Count of Champagne in 1197 upon the death of his older brother Henry II.

Charters were written by him and Philip Augustus in September 1198 to dictate the rights of the Jews of the one vis-à-vis the other and to repay debts by Augustus to the count of Champagne for the employment of his Jews. These laws were reinforced subsequently in charters that were signed between 1198 and 1231.

In 1198, Pope Innocent III called the Fourth Crusade. There was little enthusiasm for the crusade at first, but on November 28, 1199 various nobles of France gathered at Theobald's court for a tournament (in his Ecry-sur-Aisne's castle), including the preacher Fulk of Neuilly. There, they "took the cross," and elected Theobald their leader, but he died the next year and was replaced by Boniface of Montferrat.

Theobald married Blanche of Navarre on July 1, 1199 at Chartres, and was succeeded by his posthumous son by Blanche of Navarre, Theobald IV. She was Theobald's dower thus receiving his seven castles (Epernay, Vertus, Sézanne, Chantemerle, Pont-sur-Seine, Nogent-sur-Seine and Méry-sur-Seine, and all the subsidiaries coming from these castles and castellaries at the Count's death. On May 24, 1201, she was to rule as regent for the following 21 years, during which the succession was contested by Theobald's nieces, Alice and Philippa.

He was buried beside his father at the Church of Saint Stephen, built at Troyes by the latter. On his tomb the inscriptions are:

  • Intent upon making amends for the injuries of the Cross and the land of the Crucified
  • He paved a way with expenses, an army, a fleet.
  • Seeking the terrestrial city, he finds the one celestial;
  • While he is obtaining his goal far away, he finds it at home.
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Thibault III de Blois, comte de Champagne's Timeline

1179
May 13, 1179
Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
1195
1195
1201
May 24, 1201
Age 22
Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
May 30, 1201
Pamplona, Navarre, Navarre, España (Spain)
1201
Age 21
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Navarra, Spain
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