Blanche of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany
Blanche of Navarre( 1226 – 12 August 1283), also known as Blanche of Champagne, was the daughter of Theobald the Troubador, King of Navarre and Count of Champagne, and his second wife Agnes of Beaujeu.
She was a member of the House of Champagne.
By her marriage to John I, Duke of Brittany, she became Duchess consort of Brittany.
Henry II, Count of Champagne
Henry II of Champagne( or Henry I of Jerusalem)( 29 July 1166 – 10 September 1197) was count of Champagne from 1181 to 1197, and ruler of Jerusalem from 1192 to 1197, although he never used the title of king.
Count of Champagne
The Count of Champagne was the ruler of the County of Champagne from 950 to 1316.
Champagne evolved from the county of Troyes in the late eleventh century and Hugh I was the first to officially use the title" Count of Champagne".
When Sancho VII of Navarre died childless in 1234, his nephew Count Theobald IV of Champagne became also King of Navarre.
The latter's greatgrandaughter Joan married King Philip IV of France.
Upon Joan's death in 1305, her son Louis became the last independent count of Champagne, with the title merging into the royal domain upon his accession to the French throne in 1314.
The titular counts of Champagne also inherited the post of seneschal of France.
Blanche of Artois
Blanche of Artois( 1248 – 2 May 1302) was a member of the Capetian House of Artois who, as queen dowager, held regency over the Kingdom of Navarre and the County of Champagne.
She was first married to Henry I of Navarre, after whose death she became regent in the name of their infant daughter, Joan I.
She passed on the regency of Navarre to Philip III of France, her cousin and her daughter's prospective father- in- law, but retained the administration of Champagne.
She later shared the government of Champagne with her second husband, the English prince Edmund Crouchback, until her daughter reached the age of majority.
Henry I, Count of Champagne
Henry I (December 1127 – March 16, 1181), known as the Liberal, was count of Champagne from 1152 to 1181.
He was the eldest son of Count Thibaut II of Champagne (who was also Count Thibaut IV of Blois) and his wife, Matilda of Carinthia.
Henry took part in the Second Crusade under the leadership of Louis VII of France.
He carried a letter of recommendation from Bernard of Clairvaux addressed to Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor; he is listed among the notables present at the assembly held by Baldwin III of Jerusalem at Acre on 24 June 1148.
On his father's death, Henry chose to take Champagne, leaving the family's older holdings (including Blois, Chartres, Sancerre, and Châteaudun) to his younger brothers.
At the time this may have been surprising, for the other territories were richer and better developed.
Henry must have foreseen the economic possibilities of Champagne, and it is during his rule that the county achieved its high place as one of the richest and strongest of the French principalities.
Henry established orderly rule over the nobles of Champagne, and could fairly reliably count on the aid of some 2,000 vassals, which just by itself made him a power few in France could equal.
This order in turn made Champagne a safe place for merchants to gather, and under the count's protection the Champagne Fairs became a central part of long-distance trade and finance in medieval Europe.
In addition, the count's court in Troyes became a renowned literary center.
Walter Map was among those who found hospitality there.
The scholar Stephen of Alinerre was among Henry's courtiers, becoming chancellor of the county in 1176.
In 1179 Henry went to Jerusalem again with a party of French knights including his relatives Peter of Courtenay (brother of Louis VII) and Philip of Dreux, bishop of Beauvais.
Henry returned towards Europe by the land route across Asia Minor, and was captured and held to ransom by Kilij Arslan II, Seljuk sultan of Rüm.
The ransom was paid by the Byzantine Emperor.
Henry died on 16 March 1181.
In 1164, Henry married Marie of France, daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
They had four children:
Henry built the collegiate church of Saint-Étienne in Troyes between 1157 and 1171, which he planned as a necropolis for the House of Blois.
He was buried there, as was his son Theobald III, but most of his descendants were buried elsewhere.
He died in 1181 and was succeeded by their eldest son Henry.
After Henry became king of Jerusalem, the younger son Theobald became count.
Scholastique of Champagne
Scholastique of Champagne (1172–1219) was the daughter of Marie, Countess of Champagne and Henry I, Count of Champagne.
Place of birth
The place of birth( POB) or birthplace is the place where a person was born.
This place is often used in legal documents, together with name and date of birth, to uniquely identify a person.
As a general rule with respect to passports, the place of birth is determined to be the country that currently has" sovereignty" over the actual place of birth, regardless of when the birth actually occurred.
The place of birth is not necessarily the place where the parents of the new baby live.
If the baby is born in a hospital in another place, that place is the place of birth.
In many countries, this also means that the government requires that the birth of the new baby is registered in the place of birth.
Some countries place less or no importance on the place of birth, instead using alternative geographical characteristics for the purpose of identity documents.
For example, Sweden has used the concept of" födelsehemortdomicile of birth") since 1947.
This means that the domicile of the baby's mother is the registered place of birth.
The location of the maternity ward or other physical birthplace is considered unimportant.
Similarly, Switzerland uses the concept of" Heimatortlieu d'origineluogo d'origineplace of origin" in German, French and Italian respectively).
A child born to Swiss parents is automatically assigned the place of origin of the parent with the same last name, so the child either gets their mother's or father's place of origin.
A child born to one Swiss parent and one foreign parent acquires the place of origin of their Swiss parent.
In a Swiss passport and identity card, the holder's place of origin is stated, not their place of birth.
In some countries( primarily in the Americas), the place of birth automatically determines the nationality of the baby, a practice often referred to by the Latin phrase" jus soli".
Almost all countries outside the Americas instead attribute nationality based on the nationality( ies) of the baby's parents( referred to as" jus sanguinis").
There can be some confusion regarding the place of birth if the birth takes place in an unusual way: when babies are born on an airplane or at sea, difficulties can arise.
The place of birth of such a person depends on the law of the countries involved, which include the nationality of the plane or ship, the nationality( ies) of the parents and/ or the location of the plane or ship( if the birth occurs in the territorial waters or airspace of a country).
Some administrative forms may request the applicant's" country of birth".
It is important to determine from the requester whether the information requested refers to the applicant's" place of birth" or" nationality at birth".
For US citizens born abroad who under the US Constitution acquire US citizenship at the time of birth, the nationality at birth will be USA( American), while the place of birth would be the country in which the actual birth takes place.
Where Was I
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Theobald III, Count of Champagne
Theobald III of Champagne( 13 May 1179 – 24 May 1201) was Count of Champagne from 1197 to his death.
He was the younger son of Henry I, Count of Champagne and Marie, a daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
He succeeded as Count of Champagne in 1197 upon the death of his older brother Henry II.
Charters were written by him and Philip II of France in September 1198 to dictate the rights of the Jews of the one" vis- à- vis" the other and to repay debts by Philip to the count of Champagne for the employment of his Jews.
These laws were reinforced subsequently in charters that were signed between 1198 and 1231.
In 1198, Pope Innocent III called the Fourth Crusade.
There was little enthusiasm for the crusade at first, but on 28 November 1199 various nobles of France gathered at Theobald's court for a tournament( in his castle at Ecry- sur- Aisne), including the preacher Fulk of Neuilly.
There, they" took the cross", and elected Theobald their leader, but he died in 1201 and was replaced by Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat.
Theobald married Blanche of Navarre on 1 July 1199 at Chartres.
They had two children:
As her dower, Blanche received Theobald's seven castles – Épernay, Vertus, Sézanne, Chantemerle, Pont- sur- Seine, Nogent- sur- Seine, and Méry- sur- Seine – and all the subsidiaries coming from these castles and castellaries at the Count's death.
Following Theobald's death on May 24, 1201, she was to rule as regent for the following 21 years, during which the succession was contested by Theobald's nieces, Alice and Philippa.
Theobald was buried beside his father, Henry, at the Church of Saint Stephen at Troyes.
Motherland (disambiguation)
Motherland is the place of one's birth, the place of one's ancestors, or the place of origin of an ethnic group.
Motherland may also refer to:

Question: Where did Scholastique Of Champagne's father die?