Stephen Henry of Blois

Stephen Henry (c. 1045–1102) was Count of Blois and Chartres from 1089 and a leader of the First Crusade. He commanded a crusader army and directed the siege of Antioch, but on 2 June 1098 he retreated and persuaded Emperor Alexios I Komnenos to turn back rather than relieve the city.

Disgraced and urged on by his wife Adela, he took the cross again in 1101 and reached Jerusalem. In 1102 he fought for Baldwin I at the Second Battle of Ramla, was captured, and executed on 19 May, probably at Ascalon.