MARIE de Blois ([1136]-Montreuil 1182, bur Montreuil). She is named as daughter of King Stephen by Matthew Paris, when he records her marriage[638]. She succeeded her brother in 1159 as MARIE Ctss de Boulogne. Her future husband abducted her from her convent in 1160 and forced her to marry him. Pope Alexander III wrote to Henri Archbishop of Reims, dated 18 Dec 1161, regarding the abduction and marriage of "M. filius…comitis Flandrensis" and "monialem…abbatissam", but the document does not name the abbey from which she was abducted[639]. After the annulment of her marriage, she became a nun at the Benedictine nunnery of St Austrebert near Montreuil. m (before 1160, annulled 1169/70) as his first wife, MATTHIEU de Flandre [Lorraine], son of THIERRY I Count of Flanders & his second wife Sibylle d'Anjou ([1137]-killed in battle Driencourt 25 Dec 1173, bur Abbaye de Saint-Josse). He succeeded in 1160 as MATTHIEU Comte de Boulogne, in right of his wife. He led the Flemish contingent in support of Louis VII King of France against Henry II King of England and was mortally wounded by an arrow at the siege of the château de Driencourt in Normandy[640]. Comte Matthieu & his first wife had two children