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{{ infobox nobility
| name = Mary
| title = ''[[suo jure]]'' [[Counts of Blois|Countess of Blois]]
| image = Marie de belesme st-Pual 04545 du chesne.JPG
| caption = Seal
| noble family = [[House of Avesnes|Avesnes]]
| father = [[Walter II of Avesnes]]
| mother = [[Margaret, Countess of Blois|Margaret of Blois]]
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Hugh I of Châtillon]]|1226}}
| issue = {{plainlist|
* [[John I, Count of Blois|John I]]
* [[Guy II of Châtillon|Guy II]]
* [[Gaucher IV de Châtillon|Gaucher]]
* Hugh
* Basile
}}
| birth_date = 1200
| birth_place = 
| death_date = {{death year and age|1241|1200}}
| death_place = 
}}
'''Mary, Countess of Blois''', also known as ''Marie of Avesnes'', (1200–1241) was [[Count of Blois|countess of Blois]] from 1230 to 1241.

She was the daughter of [[Walter of Avesnes]] and [[Margaret, Countess of Blois|Margaret of Blois]].<ref name="Platelle284">('''FR''')Henri Platelle, ''Présence de l'au-delà: une vision médiévale du monde'', (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2004), 284.</ref>

In 1226, Mary married [[Hugh I of Châtillon]], a count from [[Châtillon-sur-Marne]], son of [[Gaucher III of Châtillon]] and [[Elisabeth of Saint-Pol]].<ref>Theodore Evergates, ''The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 223.</ref> They had five children:
# [[John I, Count of Blois|John I]] (died 1280), [[Count of Blois]]<ref name="Evergates254">Theodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, 254.</ref>
# [[Guy II of Châtillon|Guy II]] (died 1289), [[Count of Saint Pol]]<ref name="Evergates254" />
# [[Gaucher IV de Châtillon|Gaucher]] (died 1261), lord of [[Crécy]] and [[Crèvecœur-en-Brie|Crèvecœur]]<ref name="Evergates254" />
# Hugh (died 1255)<ref name="Evergates254" />
# Basile (died 1280), became Abbess of Notre Dame du Val in 1248.

Her eldest son, John, succeeded her in [[Blois]].<ref name="Evergates254" />

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

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