Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol explained

Guy III
Count of Saint-Pol
Noble Family:	Châtillon
Father:	Hugh I, Count of Blois
Mother:	Mary, Countess of Blois
Issue:	Hugh II Guy IV Jacques Beatrix Jeanne
Death Date:	1289

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
• 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.

Notes and References

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. Web site: Archived copy . 2020-01-05 . 2016-03-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160308205352/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591306344.html . dead .
3. M. A. Pollock, Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296, (The Boydell Press, 2015), 184.