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9 unusual facts about Count of Boulogne


Brother Cadfael's Penance

Stephen's eldest son Eustace died in 1153 a month after the encounter at Wallingford, and his son William was settled in Normandy, not considered for succession after his father.

Chrishall

Following the Norman Conquest the area around Chrishall was given to Eustace of Boulogne who built and occupied a house on a hill to the south of the current church.

Eustace of Boulogne

Eustace III, Count of Boulogne, count of Boulogne, son of Eustace II of Boulogne and Ida of Lorraine

Eustace I, Count of Boulogne r.1045-1049, son of Count Baldwin II of Boulogne and Adelina of Holland

Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (c. 1015-1020 – c. 1087), count of Boulogne from 1049–1087 and companion of William the Conqueror

Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (c. 1130–1153), Count of Boulogne and son and heir of Stephen of England

Goda of England

She married secondly Eustace II, Count of Boulogne in 1035.

Lancaster Castle

Part of the agreement was that the King of Scotland would relinquish the Honour of Lancaster, which would be held by William, Stephen's son.

William of Blois

William I, Count of Boulogne (c.1137–1159), count of Boulogne from 1153–59, son of King Stephen of England


Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne

She outlived Madeleine by five years but died childless, after which the Counties of Auvergne and Boulogne as well as the barony of La Tour passed to Madeleine's daughter Catherine de' Medici and then to the French Crown.

Marie I, Countess of Boulogne

Marie I or Mary (1136 – 25 July 1182 in St Austrebert, Montreuil, France) was the suo jure Countess of Boulogne from 1159 to 1170.

Revolt of 1173–74

The Young King and his French mentor created a wide alliance against Henry II by promising land and revenues in England and Anjou to the Counts of Flanders, Boulogne, and Blois.


see also

Afonso III of Portugal

Pope Innocent IV then ordered Sancho II to be removed from the throne and be replaced by the Count of Boulogne.

Ida of Boulogne

Ida of Lorraine, Countess of Boulogne (c. 1040–1113), daughter of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine; wife of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne