Eleanor of Champagne ¹

  General Notes:

She was the daughter of Stephen II, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy, daughter of the king of England. She married Ralph I, Count of Vermandois and became mother of Hugh II of Vermandois (1127 to 1212), count of Vermandois and of Valois, then monk in 1160.

Eleonor's marriage with Ralph I was dissolved at the request of Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose sister Petronilla of Aquitaine was in love with Raoul.[1] This led to a war with Theobald II of Champagne, who was Eleanor's brother. The war lasted two years (1142\endash 1144) and ended with the occupation of Champagne by the royal army. Eleanor died in 1147.

Eleanor married Raoul "Ralph" I, Count of Vermandois, son of Prince Hugh Magnus Prince of France, Duke of France & Burgundy, Marquis d'Orleans, Comte d'Amiens, Chaumont, Paris, Valois, & Vermandois and Adelheid de Vermandois, in 1125. (Raoul "Ralph" I, Count of Vermandois died on 14 Oct 1142.)