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Theobald I the Trickster
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975
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About
Theobald the Trickster built the house of Blois from a viscount's inheritance into one of the great powers of northern France, a perpetual thorn in the side of the counts of Anjou and the kings themselves.
Research notes
THEOBALD I 'the TRICKSTER', Count of BLOIS (c.913-975); m. Luitgarde of Vermandois; father of Emma (our line). Standard well-documented medieval royal/comital genealogy per the cited authorities; rungs graded, contested parentage marked note-only, not hardened.