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Blois ( / blwɑː / BLWAH; French: [blwa] ⓘ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, [3] on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. [4] With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the department, and the 4th of the region.
- County of Blois
The County of Blois was a feudal principality centred on...
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The Royal Château of Blois (French: Château Royal de Blois,...
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The House of Blois-Navarre, which was founded by Theobold I...
- County of Blois
63–135 m (207–443 ft) (avg. 73 m or 240 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Blois is a city in France on the Loire river, the prefecture of the Loir-et-Cher department . It is very famous for its Renaissance chateau which was for many years a royal ...
Counts of Blois. During the Middle Ages, the counts of Blois were among the most powerful vassals of the King of France . This title of nobility seems to have been created in 832 by Emperor Louis the Pious for Count William, the youngest son of Adrian, Count of Orléans. Over a few decades, the county was gathered to the royal lands of France ...
PortraitNameReignOther TitlesTheobald I of Blois, aka Theobald the ...940–977Count of Tours Count of Chartres Count of ...Son of Theobald the Elder and Richilde.Odo I of Blois (c. 950 – died in 996)977–996Count of Tours Count of Chartres Count of ...Second son of Count Theobald I and ...Theobald II of Blois (c. 983 – 11 July ...996–1004Count of Tours Count of Chartres Count of ...Elder son of Count Odo I, her reign was ...Odo II of Blois (c. 985 – 15 Nov.1004–1037Count of Tours Count of Chartres Count of ...Younger brother of Count Theobald II, he ...Website of the Diocese. The Diocese of Blois ( Latin: Dioecesis Blesensis; French: Diocèse de Blois) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese lies in western France, and encompasses the department of Loir-et-Cher. Since 2002 it has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tours .
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