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{{ infobox nobility
| name        = Hugh I
| title       = ''[[jure uxoris]]'' [[Counts of Blois|Count of Blois]]
| image       = File:Hugues de Chatillon.jpg
| caption     = 
| noble family= [[House of Chatillon|Châtillon]] 
| father      = [[Walter III of Châtillon|Gaucher III of Châtillon]]
| mother      = [[Elisabeth of Saint-Pol]]
| spouse      = Agnes of Bar-le-Duc<br>(m. 1216; died {{circa|1225}})<br>{{marriage|[[Mary, Countess of Blois]]|1226|1241|end=d}}<br>Mahaut of Guînes
| issue       = {{plainlist|
* [[John I, Count of Blois]]
* [[Guy II of Châtillon]]
* [[Gaucher IV de Châtillon]]
* Hugh
* Basile
}}
| birth_date  = after 1197
| birth_place = 
| death_date  = {{death date|1248|4|9|df=y}}
| death_place = 
}}
'''Hugh I, Count of Blois''', also known as ''Hugh I of Châtillon'' ({{circa|1198}} – 9 April 1248)<ref name="Evergates223">Theodore Evergates, ''The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 223.</ref> was [[jure uxoris]] [[Count of Blois]] from 1230 to 1241, and [[Count of Saint Pol]] (as Hugh V) from 1226 to 1248.

Hugh was son of [[Walter III of Châtillon|Gaucher III of Châtillon]] and [[Elizabeth, Countess of Saint-Pol|Elisabeth]], daughter of [[Hugo IV, Count of Saint-Pol]].<ref name="Evergates223" /> He married Agnes of Bar-le-Duc, daughter of Thibaut I of Bar-le-Duc and Hermesend of Bar-sur-Seine, in 1216.<ref name="Evergates223" /> By 1225, Agnes was dead and Hugh married Marie.<ref name="Evergates223" />

In 1226, Hugh married [[Mary, Countess of Blois|Marie of Avesnes]], daughter of [[Walter II of Avesnes]] and [[Margaret of Blois]].<ref name="Evergates223" /> They had 5 children:
# [[John I, Count of Blois|John I]] (d. 1280), [[Count of Blois]]<ref name="Evergates254">Theodore Evergates, ''The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300'', 254.</ref>
# [[Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol|Guy III]] (d. 1289), [[Count of Saint Pol]]<ref name="Evergates254" />
# [[Gaucher IV de Châtillon|Gaucher IV]] (d. 1261), lord of Chatillon, [[Crécy]] and [[Crèvecœur-en-Brie|Crèvecœur]].<ref name="Evergates254" /> His son was: [[Gaucher V de Châtillon]].
# Hugh (d. 1255)<ref name="Evergates254" />
# Basile (d. 1280), became Abbess of Notre Dame du Val in 1248

Through his marriage Hugh became the first Count of Blois from the House of Châtillon. It marked the end of the first [[dynasty]] of Blois that lasted over 400 years. After the death of Marie, Hugh married Mahaut, sister of [[Baldwin III, Count of Guînes]].

In 1226 the [[Cistercian nuns|Cistercian nunnery]] Pont-aux-Dames in [[Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames|Couilly]] was founded by Hugh.<ref name="Lester157-158">Anne E. Lester, ''Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth Century Champagne'', (Cornell University Press, 2011), 157-158.</ref> Later Hugh, with the assistance of Philip Mécringes, founded a Cistercian nunnery at Troissy called ''L'Amour-Dieu'' in 1232.<ref name="Lester157-158" />

Hugh intended to follow the pious king [[Louis IX of France|Louis IX]] when he started on the [[Seventh Crusade]], but he died in 1248.<ref name="Lester157-158"  />

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://francebalade.free.fr/blois/ctblois2.htm Counts of Blois]

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{{succession box | before=[[Marie of Avesnes|Marie]] | title=[[Count of Blois]]<br>''with [[Marie of Avesnes|Marie]]'' | years=1230–1241 | after=[[John I, Count of Blois|John I]]  }}
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