Hugh II of Blois died in 1307 without male issue, extinguishing the direct Châtillon line in the county. The denier coinage of his tenure reflects a lordship already in demographic and political decline — within a decade of his death, Blois had passed by inheritance to the house of Châtillon-Saint-Pol, beginning the county's gradual absorption into the French royal orbit.
Hugh II of Blois died in 1307 without male issue, extinguishing the direct Châtillon line in the county. The denier coinage of his tenure reflects a lordship already in demographic and political decline — within a decade of his death, Blois had passed by inheritance to the house of Châtillon-Saint-Pol, beginning the county's gradual absorption into the French royal orbit.