Walter d'Avesnes II

• Preferred Name: Walter d'Avesnes II
  
• Alternate Name: Walter D'Avesnes II
  
• Alternate Name: Gauthier d'Avesne
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: JUN 1245 in Avesnes, Calais, France at LATI: N0.549 LONG: E0.9724
  
• Birth: 8 JAN 1181 in Avesnes, Nord, France at LATI: N0.2514 LONG: E0.3756
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Seigneur d’Avesnes, Condé, Leuze, Landrecies; Guise et Trélon; comte de Blois (1218, par sa femme).
  
• FSID: GVSX-2YW
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Walter II of Avesnes (b. 1170 - d.1244) was lord of Avesnes, Leuze, of Condé and Guise, and through his marriage to Margaret of Blois, he became count of Blois and Chartres. He was the son of James of Avesnes, and Adèle, lady of Guise.
  
  Walter fought alongside Count Ferdinand of Flanders at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, then left to fight in the Holy Land. Taken prisoner, he was ransomed by the Knights Templar and helped construct the Pilgrim Castle, in 1218, donating 1,000 Saracen bezants towards its construction.
  
  With the income from Guise lands, he began work on modernizing his castles. He also built a castle Englancourt to control the road through the count of Hainaut.
  
  «b»Family«/b»
  Walter married Margaret, Countess of Blois and Chartres, daughter of Theobald V, Count of Blois, count of Blois and Chartres, and Alix of France.
  
  «b»Their children:«/b»
  1.) Theobald, died young
  
  2.) Mary, Countess of Blois († 1241), married Hugh I, Count of Blois, (1196 † 1248).
  
  3.) Isabelle, married John, lord of Oisy and Montreuil
  
  === !BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Ste ===
  !BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
  
  === THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.5, 167, 186; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.26;
  
  === !#552-v2-T47; Gautier II d'Avesnes, Coun ===
  !#552-v2-T47; Gautier II d'Avesnes, Count de Blois de Guise etc, 1191/1243;
  
  Born: about 1173; North West Europe.
  Deceased: about 1244.
  
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