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2 unusual facts about Eustace II, Count of Boulogne


Eustace of Boulogne

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

Goda of England

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


Eustace II, Count of Boulogne

Eustace has been portrayed on screen by Leslie Bradley in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) and by Joby Blanshard in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest (1966), part of the series Theatre 625.

In the following year, probably because he was dissatisfied with his share of the spoil, he assisted the Kentishmen in an attempt to seize Dover Castle.

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

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