Biography of Eustace Flanders III Count Boulogne -1125

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Eustace Flanders III Count Boulogne was born to [his father] Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne and [his mother] Ida Ardennes Countess Boulogne.

Before 1047 [his father] Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne (age 31) and Goda Wessex Countess Boulogne (age 42) were married. She by marriage Countess Boulogne. She the daughter of King Æthelred II of England and Emma aka Ælfgyfu of Normandy Queen Consort England (age 61). He the son of [his grandfather] Eustace Flanders I Count Boulogne and [his grandmother] Matilda Reginar Countess Boulogne. They were fourth cousin twice removed.

In 1049 [his grandfather] Eustace Flanders I Count Boulogne died. His son [his father] Eustace (age 34) succeeded II Count Boulogne.

14th October 1066 Battle of Hastings

                    On 14th October 1066 the Norman army led by King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 38) defeated the English army of King Harold II of England (age 44) at the 14th October 1066 Battle of Hastings fought at Senlac Hill Hastings. Aimery Thouars (age 42), Ralph de Gael 2nd Earl East Anglia (age 24), [his father] Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne (age 51), William Fitzosbern 1st Earl Hereford (age 46), Geoffrey Chateaudun II Count Mortain III Count Perche, William Warenne 1st Earl of Surrey, Raoul Tosny, Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan (age 26), Hugh Grandesmil (age 34), Roger "The Great" Montgomery 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (possibly), Robert Mortain Count Mortain 1st Earl Cornwall (age 35) and Bishop Odo of Bayeux fought for William.
                
                    King Harold II of England was killed. Earl Wessex, Earl Hereford extinct.
                
                    Leofwine Godwinson 2nd Earl Kent (age 31) was killed. Earl Kent extinct.
                
                    His brothers Gyrth Godwinson Earl East Anglia (age 34) and Engenulphe Aigle (age 56) were killed.

Battle of Cassel

                    On 22nd February 1071 Battle of Cassel was fought between uncle Robert "The Frisian" I Count Flanders (age 38) and nephew Arnulf III Count Flanders (age 16), supported by his mother Richilde Countess Flanders and Hainault and King Philip I of France (age 18), over the succession of Flanders.
                
                    Arnulf III Count Flanders was killed. His brother Baldwin (age 15) succeeded II Count Hainault. Robert "The Frisian" I Count Flanders was appointed I Count Flanders.
                
                    William Fitzosbern 1st Earl Hereford (age 51) was killed. His son Roger succeeded 2nd Earl Hereford.
                
                    [his father] Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne (age 56) and his son Eustace Flanders III Count Boulogne fought for Robert. During the battle Robert "The Frisian" I Count Flanders and Richilde Countess Flanders and Hainault were captured, and subsequently exchanged for each other.

Before 1087 [his father] Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne (age 71) and [his mother] Ida Ardennes Countess Boulogne were married. She by marriage Countess Boulogne. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Godfrey "Bearded" Ardennes III Duke Lower Lorraine. He the son of [his grandfather] Eustace Flanders I Count Boulogne and [his grandmother] Matilda Reginar Countess Boulogne.

Around 1087 [his father] Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne (age 72) died. His son Eustace succeeded III Count Boulogne. [his wife] Mary Dunkeld Countess Boulogne (age 5) by marriage Countess Boulogne.

Around 1087 Eustace Flanders III Count Boulogne and Mary Dunkeld Countess Boulogne (age 5) were married. She the daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland (age 55) and Margaret Wessex Queen Consort Scotland (age 42). He the son of Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne (age 72) and Ida Ardennes Countess Boulogne.

1094 Murder of King Duncan

On 12th November 1094 [his brother-in-law] King Duncan II of Scotland (age 34) ambushed and killed in battle. His uncle Donald (age 62) succeeded III King Scotland.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1096. In this year held the King William (age 40) his court at Christmas in Windsor; and William Bishop of Durham died there on new-year's day; and on the octave of the Epiphany was the king and all his councillors at Salisbury. There Geoffry Bainard challenged William of Ou, the king's relative, maintaining that he had been in the conspiracy against the king. And he fought with him, and overcame him in single combat; and after he was overcome, the king gave orders to put out his eyes, and afterwards to emasculate him; and his steward, William by name, who was the son of his stepmother, the king commanded to be hanged on a gibbet. Then was also Eoda, Earl of Champagne, the king's son-in-law, and many others, deprived of their lands; whilst some were led to London, and there killed. This year also, at Easter, there was a very great stir through all this nation and many others, on account of Urban, who was declared Pope, though he had nothing of a see at Rome. And an immense multitude went forth with their wives and children, that they might make war upon the heathens. Through this expedition were the king and his brother, Earl Robert, reconciled; so that the king went over sea, and purchased all Normandy of him, on condition that they should be united. And the earl afterwards departed; and with him the Earl of Flanders (age 31), and the Earl of Boulogne, and also many other men of rank¹²³. And the Earl Robert, and they that went with him, passed the winter in Apulia; but of the people that went by Hungary many thousands miserably perished there and by the way. And many dragged themselves home rueful and hunger-bitten on the approach of winter. This was a very heavy-timed year through all England, both through the manifold tributes, and also through the very heavy-timed hunger that severely oppressed this earth in the course of the year. In this year also the principal men who held this land, frequently sent forces into Wales, and many men thereby grievously afflicted, producing no results but destruction of men and waste of money.

Note 123. Literally "head-men, or chiefs". The term is still retained with a slight variation in the north of Europe, as the "hetman" Platoff of celebrated memory.

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Before 15th October 1097 [his brother] Baldwin I King Jerusalem (age 39) and [his sister-in-law] Godehilde Tosny were married. He the son of [his father] Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne and [his mother] Ida Ardennes Countess Boulogne. They were half fourth cousin once removed.

In 1099 King Donald III of Scotland (age 67) died. He was buried at Dunfermline Abbey [Map] and subsequently reburied in Iona. His nephew [his brother-in-law] Edgar (age 25) succeeded I King Scotland.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1100. During the harvest of this same year also came the Earl Robert (age 49) home into Normandy, and the Earl Robert of Flanders (age 35), Eustace, Earl of Boulogne, from Jerusalem. And as soon as the Earl Robert came into Normandy, he was joyfully received by all his people; except those of the castles that were garrisoned with the King Henry's (age 32) men. Against them he had many contests and struggles.

Marriage of Henry I and Matilda

On 11th November 1100, three months after acceeding to the throne, King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 32) and [his sister-in-law] Matilda of Scotland (age 20) were married. She was crowned Queen Consort England. Baptised Edith she took the regnal name Matilda. The marriage brought together the houses of Normandy and Wessex; she was a great granddaughter of King Edmund I of England. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] King Malcolm III of Scotland and [his mother-in-law] Margaret Wessex Queen Consort Scotland. He the son of King William "Conqueror" I of England and Matilda Flanders Queen Consort England.

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On 25th December 1100 [his brother] Baldwin I King Jerusalem (age 42) was crowned I King Jerusalem.

Around 1105 [his daughter] Matilda Flanders was born to Eustace Flanders III Count Boulogne and [his wife] Mary Dunkeld Countess Boulogne (age 23). She married 1125 her half fourth cousin once removed King Stephen I England, son of Stephen Blois II Count Blois and Chartres and Adela Normandy Countess Blois, and had issue.

King Edgar of Scotland Dies King Alexander I Succeeds

On 8th January 1107 [his brother-in-law] King Edgar I of Scotland (age 33) died. His brother [his brother-in-law] Alexander (age 29) succeeded I King Scotland.

After 1111 [his brother-in-law] King David I of Scotland (age 27) and Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 37) were married. He by marriage Earl Huntingdon. She the daughter of Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon and Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon. He the son of [his father-in-law] King Malcolm III of Scotland and [his mother-in-law] Margaret Wessex Queen Consort Scotland.