Question about an English dynasty name

Zioneer

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Just a quick question, if Stephen of Blois wasn't the only English King of his line of descent, what would have been his dynasty's name or nickname? Like how the house of the Empress Matilda/her husband the Count of Anjou was the Angevin/Plantagenet house. What would the Blois be called?
 

Thande

Donor
It would most probably just be House of Blois, as I don't think a demonym variation existed like with Anjou/Angevin; the name doesn't lend itself well to that.
 

Thande

Donor
The demonym is Blesevin, I believe. It would be called the Blesevin Dynasty.

Hmmph, I thought there might be something like that but I couldn't find it anywhere...

Of course is 'Blesevin' modern French, because it might be different in Norman French.
 

Thande

Donor
As Stephen is Count of Boulogne it could be the Bolonian Dynasty.

If so it would be Boulognaise, although that sounds faintly ridiculous to our ears as it sounds like bolognaise as in pasta (the Italian city of Bologna coming from the same linguistic root as the French Boulogne).
 
As Stephen is Count of Boulogne it could be the Bolonian Dynasty.

Stephen wasn't Count of Boulogne. His wife was. He wasn't entitled to be named Count, for the same reason that Prince Philip is not King Philip I of England - men can't inherit titles from their wives.
 
Stephen wasn't Count of Boulogne. His wife was. He wasn't entitled to be named Count, for the same reason that Prince Philip is not King Philip I of England - men can't inherit titles from their wives.
At that time was quite normal for the husband to assume the title of his wife jure uxoris. And about Prince Philip is true who he is not King Philip II of England but Philip II of Spain, when he was married with Mary I, was King Philip I of Spain jure uxoris (the English gave him the matrimonial crown) and he was Philip II in Spain because his grandfather (Philip of Habsburg, duke of Burgundy and son of the Emperor Maximilian I) was King Philip I of Castile jure uxoris... Or about at the same time of Stephen both Louis XII of France first and then Henry II of England was jure uxoris Duke of Aquitaine when they was married with the Duchess Eleanor. Or think to the kingdoms of Jerusalem where husbands always assumed the titles of their wives if married heiresses (and this was also true for the Crown).
 
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