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The armies of Count Stephen of Blois participated in both the First Crusade of 1096 and the Crusade of 1101. Stephen apparently fled the battlefield at the Siege of Antioch and returned home. He was coerced by his wife, Adela of Normandy, to form another army to return to the Holy Land in 1101, accompanied by Count Stephen I of Burgundy.
References
- La Monte, John L. (January 1942). "The Lords of Le Puiset on the Crusades". Speculum. JSTOR 2856610
- Riley-Smith, Jonathan (1997). The First Crusaders, 1095-1131. University of Cambridge Press.
- Runciman, Steven (1951). A History of the Crusades, Vol. I. Cambridge University Press.
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