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With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the department, and the 4th of the region. Historically, the city was the capital of the County of Blois, created on 832 until its integration into the Royal domain in 1498, when Count Louis II of Orléans became King Louis XII of France.
Blois, city, capital of Loir-et-Cher département, Centre région, central France, on the Loire River northeast of Tours. First mentioned in the 6th century by Gregory of Tours, it was by the early Middle Ages seat of the powerful counts of Blois, from whom descended the Capetian kings of France.
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Jun 9, 2015 · Louis XII. Louis may have had Orleans in his name but he was a native Blésois, as the inhabitants of Blois are called. A century earlier, in 1391, his grandfather Duke Louis I d’Orléans, brother to then king Charles VI, had purchased the fortress of the Counts of Blois whose power had waned.
The following account of the Martyrs of Blois is taken from his historical work. It happened in the year 4931 (1171). At that time there lived in Blois about forty Jews. One of them, Isaac ben Eleazar, rode up to the river one Thursday, toward evening, shortly before Pesach.
Blois, feudal countship that rose to great importance in medieval France as its holders came to possess not only the city of Blois itself and its immediate vicinity, the Blésois, but also other domains. Under Robert the Strong (d. 866), duke of the entire region between the Seine and Loire rivers
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In the city of Blois, rumors spread that Jews committed murder in order to extract blood for Passover matzah. On May 26, 1171, two months after Passover — despite the lack of a corpse or other evidence– the 33 members of the Blois Jewish community, which included 17 women, were burned at the stake after they refused the chance to save ...
Stephen Henry (in French, Étienne Henri, in Medieval French, Estienne Henri; c. 1045 – 19 May 1102) was the Count of Blois and Count of Chartres. He led an army during the First Crusade , was at the surrender of the city of Nicaea , and directed the siege of Antioch .
