Elizabeth of Blois, Duchess of Apulia

[1] She was a daughter of Count Theobald IV of Blois, a niece of King Stephen of England and a great-granddaughter of William the Conqueror.

According to a surviving letter of Bernard to Roger II, dated to August 1140, the Sicilian envoys were expected soon to arrive in Montpellier.

[2] Elizabeth may have had a brief reunion with some of her family when her brother, Henry the Liberal, stopped in Palermo on his return voyage from the Second Crusade in late 1148.

[14][13] Their eldest daughter and her husband, Matilda and Hervé, succeeded to the lordship, but Elizabeth remained influential in the Perche-Gouët.

[11] Sometime after William's death, Elizabeth entered Fontevraud Abbey, where her sisters Margaret and Mary, widow of Duke Odo II of Burgundy, were already nuns.

[10] This probably took place between 1173, when she met her sister Matilda, wife of Count Rotrou IV of Perche, at Bonneval Abbey, and 1175, when Henry the Liberal made a grant to Fontevraud.

[18] Henry was persuaded by his brother, Archbishop William of Reims, to increase his original grant by 10 livres "because our sisters are nuns there".