General Notes

!William I and the Norman Conquest

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!Came to the court of his brother-in-law with a great retinue.  Here he would
meet with bishops and abbots, earls and knights, of French lineage.  Eustace
naturally thought that England was a tribute land for the Normans, and that the
Saxon was a born slave.  On his return to Boulogne, he had to rest at Dover.
Before entering the town he ordered his men to put on their hauberks; and at
the head of his followers he demanded quarters of the sturdy householders.  The
burghers resisted the insolent mandate; and one who refused entrance to the
foreigners was slain.  Then Count Eustace, when the cry of vengeance rose among
the people, made a furious onslaught with his spearmen upon the inhabitants,
and many fell under the French lances.  The burghers slew 19 of the Frenchmen.
King Edward was furious at the rude treatment of his relatives.   Civil war
seemed imminent, but was averted by the banishment of the queen's relatives for
their refusal to punish the people of Dover for defending their rights.
[Knight's Popular History of England, Vol. 1, p. 192]

Arnoul d'Ardre accompanied Count Eustache of Boulogne, probably his kinsman, to
the conquest of England in 1066, and held large estates under him in Cambridge
and Bedford in 1086 (Domesday). [Falaise Roll, p. 4]

Comte de Boulogne; son of Eustache I and Mahut of Louvain; m. 1050 Goda, dau.
of Ethelred II, king of England. He joined Duke William in the conquest of
England and is expressly named by William of Poitiers and personally depicted
as Eustatius on the Bayeux Tapestry. Guy, bishop of Amiens, author of CARMEN DE
BELLO, states that Harold's body was mutilated by Eustache, Walter Giffard,
Hugh de Montfort and "the heir of Ponthieu." The latter was Gui, count of
Ponthieu and Montreuil, who captured Harold on his visit to Normandy before the
conquest. Orderic Vital tells us that he was severely wounded at the duke's
side at Senlac, while advising him to retreat. For his services in the
engagement he received large grants of lands in various parts of England.
[Falaise Roll, p. 18]

Count of Boulogne; son of Eustace I, Count of Boulogne, and Maud of Louvain; m.
Ida de Bouillon; father of Eustace III and Geoffrey/Goisfrid. [GRS 3.03,
Automated Archives, CD#100]

A serious rebellion broke out in Kent. The rebels invited Count Eustace of
Boulogne to be their leader. Although a valiant supporter of William at the
Battle of Hastings, the count had subsequently quarreled with the king. Landing
at Dover with the aim of seizing both the port and the castle, Eustace attacked
the latter before promised reinforcements could arrive. The garrison beat off
the attack, the rebellion collapsed and Eustace sailed back to his country.
[Dover Castle, p. 21]

Count de Boulogne; at Battle of Hastings 1066; m. Ida de Bouillon; fatherd of
Geoffrey de Boulogne who m. Beatrice de Mandeville. [Charlemagne, Alfred the
Great, and Other Ancestors, Chart 3348c]