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Emma of Blois
d. 1003
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Died
1003
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Emma of Blois ruled Aquitaine as regent for her young son and founded great abbeys at Bourgueil and Maillezais; she brought the blood of Blois and, behind it, of Vermandois into Aquitaine.
Research notes
EMMA of BLOIS (c.950-1003), daughter of Theobald I of Blois; wife of William IV Fierebras (I99955); mother of William V (our line). Opens the Counts of BLOIS; her mother LOOPS onto the Vermandois Herbertians already in the tree. Standard well-documented medieval royal/comital genealogy per the cited authorities; rungs graded, contested parentage marked note-only, not hardened.