ETIENNE de Blois, son of THIBAUT IV Comte de Blois & his wife Mathilde of Carinthia [Sponheim] (-Acre 1191). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Henricum comitem Trecensem palatinum…Theobaldum comitem Blesenem…Stephanum comitem de Sancerre quod Sacrum Cesaris est dictum…et Guillelmus" as the four sons of "comes Campanie Theobaldus"[2337]. William of Tyre names him and his father[2338]. Comte de Sancerre. Amaury I King of Jerusalem invited him to Palestine end 1170 offering him the hand of his daughter Sibylle. He landed in Summer 1171, but quickly broke off negotiations for the marriage and left Palestine for Constantinople. He was robbed by Mleh Lord of the Mountains [Armenia-Rupen] as he passed through Cilicia[2339]. Matthew Paris records the death at Acre in 1191 of "Theodbaldus Bloeensis comes, Stephanus frater eius comes"[2340]. He died of disease at the siege of Acre[2341].
m (1153) as her second husband, ALIX[Mathilde] de Donzy, widowof ANSEAUde Traînel, daughter of GEOFFROY [III] Seigneur de Donzy & his second wife Garna de Toucy (-1175). The Historia Gloriosi Regis Ludovici VII records that "Gaufridus de Giemago…filiam suam"married "Stephano de Sancerro", with Gien as her dowry[2342]. The primary source which confirms her name and first marriage has not so far been identified.
Comte Etienne [I] & his wife had three children: