Thibaud III comté de Blois et Champagne

   Another name for Thibaud was Theobald III Count of Blois & Champagne.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ⁶⁹⁵
Theobald succeeded to the honours and possessions of his father, but, losing Tours to Geoffrey Martell, he died of grief in 1047. His son, Stephen, subsequently recovered Tours; and his grandson, Stephen was king of England.

~Remains, Historical and Literary, Connect with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. XCVII, Adlington, and Legh of Adlington, p. 83

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Thibaut de Blois was the son of Eudes II comté de Blois and his second wife Ermengard d'Auvergne. He married Gersende du Maine, daughter of Heribert I comté du Maine.

"The Liber Modernorum Regum Francorum names "Tetbaudus et Stephanus" as the two sons of comté Eudes, specifying that Thibaut succeeded in "Carnotensem et Turonensem" [Hugonis Floriacensis, Liber qui Modernorum Regum Francorum continet Actus 10, MGH SS IX, p. 388]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Theobaldi filii Odonis Campaniensis" when recording that he lost Tours in 1041 [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1041, MGH SS XXIII, p. 786]. "Odo comes filius [Odonis comitis]" confirmed a donation of his father by charter dated to (1032/37), subscribed by "Tetbaldi filii eius, matris eius Ermengardis…Hervei vicecomitis" [Marmoutier-Dunois IV, p. 5]. The Actus pontificum Cenomannis records that "Atho marchisius" left Maine in the hands of "Gaufridi de Meduana", also naming "uxor eiusdem marchisii Garcendis…filia Herberti Cenomannorum…comitis…Evigila Canem" and specifying that she had married firstly "Theobaldo duci Campanie" and that he had repudiated her [Actus pontificum Cenomannis, p. 377]."

Thibaud married Garsende du Maine, daughter of Heribert I "Eveillechien", comte du Maine and Unknown, before 1045.¹⁸⁰ (Garsende du Maine was born about 1023 in Amiens, Somme, France and died about 1100.)