Eustace of Boulogne, Count/Earl of Boulogne^[1]

1130 - 1153  (23 years)

• Name	Eustace of Boulogne
  Suffix	Count/Earl of Boulogne
  Birth	1130	Blois, France
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	25 Dec 1152
  Death	16 Aug 1153	Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
  Burial	Faversham Abbey, Kent, England
  Notes	Acceded: 25 DEC 1152 Crowned King of England 1152. Earl of Huntingdon. The Complete Peerage vol.V,p.644. http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01400 http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PLANTAGENET.htm#Eustace%20of%20Blois%20(Count%20of%20Boulogne) http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps08/ps08_032.htm French EUSTACHE, count of Boulogne (from 1150) and eldest son of King Stephen of England and his wife Matilda, daughter and heiress of the previous count of Boulogne (Eustace III). Eustace IV did homage for Normandy (1137) to Louis VII, king of France, whose sister Constance he later married (1140), and he was several times used by the king as an opponent to the claims on the Norman duchy made by the counts of Anjou. At a council held in London on April 6, 1152, King Stephen induced some English barons to pay homage to his son Eustace as their future king, but Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, on the command of Pope Eugenius III, refused to crown him. Eustace, whom contemporaries respected only as a soldier, was killed while plundering the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. His death made possible a settlement of the civil war between Stephen and the empress Matilda. Stephen designated as his heir Matilda's son Henry of Anjou, afterward Henry II of England. As eldest son, he would have become King of England, but he was slain while plundering church lands near Bury St. His disrespect for the church may have stemmed from the refusal, in April of 1152, of Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, to recognize him as the future king Eustace m. 02-1140 at Paris, to Constance, Princess of France. He is buried in Faversham Abbey, Faversham, Kent. "Ancestral Roots..." (Balt., 1992) 169A: "Eustace had by unknown mistress: Eustache de Champagne, m. (1) Geoffrey de Mandeville, d.s.p., Earl of Essex, div.; m. (2) Anselme Candavaine, Count of Saint-Pol, d. 1164. She had three sons: Hugh, count of St. Pol, Engerrand, Guy. ...[Eustache de Champagne also] had Beatrice Candavaine, de Saint-Pol, m. as (3) wife, John I, Count of Ponthieu, d. 1191." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_Boulogne
  Person ID	I7558	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Stephen I of Blois, King of England,   b. Abt 1096, Blois, France d. 25 Oct 1154, Dover Castle, Kent, England (Age ~ 58 years)
  Mother	Matilda of Boulogne, Countess of Boulogne,   b. Abt May 1103, Boulogne Cathedral, France d. 3 May 1152, Hedingham Castle, Essex, England (Age ~ 48 years)
  Marriage	1125	Westminster, London, England
  Family ID	F2974	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Constance of Toulouse Capet, Countess Boulogne,   b. Abt 1128, Reims, France d. 16 Aug 1176, Rheims, Champagne-Ardenne, France (Age ~ 48 years)
  Marriage	Aft Feb 1140	Paris, France
  Children	1. Eustache of Champagne   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2976	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).