Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol

Guy III

Count of Saint-Pol

Coat of arms of the Counts of Blois-Châtillon

Died| 1289
Noble family| Châtillon
Spouse(s)|

Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

(m. 1255; died 1288)​

Issue|

* Hugh II
* Guy IV
* Jacques
* Beatrix
* Jeanne

Father| Hugh I, Count of Blois
Mother| Mary, Countess of Blois

Guy III of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol (died 1289) was a French nobleman, and was a younger son of Hugh I, Count of Blois, and Mary, Countess of Blois.[1]

While his elder brother John I of Châtillon succeeded to their mother's County of Blois, Guy was given their father's county of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise at his death in 1248.

On January 16, 1255, he married Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois,[2] daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen, and thereafter was a supporter of his brother-in-law Henry III against Guelders. They had:

* Hugh II, Count of Blois.[3]
* Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol.
* Jacques, lord of Leuze-Châtillon.
* Beatrix (d. 1304), married John I of Brienne, Count of Eu[3]
* Jeanne, married Guillaume III de Chauvigny, Lord of Châteauroux

He joined the Eighth Crusade (1270) and the ill-fated Crusade of Aragón of Philip III of France.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Theodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 254.
2. ^ "Maude of Brabant (1224–1288)." Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002. Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ a b M. A. Pollock, Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296, (The Boydell Press, 2015), 184.

Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol

House of Châtillon

Died: 1289

Preceded by

Hugh V

|  Count of Saint Pol
1248-1289  | Succeeded by

Hugh VI
*[m.]: married