Eustace II, Count of Boulogne

Eustace II ( frz: Eustache II de Boulogne, * 1020, † by 1085 ) wrote, even Eustace, Count of Boulogne.

He was the son of Count Eustace I of Boulogne ( Boulogne house ) and the Countess Matilda of Leuven. From his father he inherited after his death the county of Boulogne. 1054, on the death of his brother Lambert, he also inherited the county Lens.

In the Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066) he commanded (perhaps jointly with Roger II de Montgomery, whose participation is, however, not clearly demonstrated in the battle ) consisting of the Flemish and French fighters right wing of the Norman invasion army.

Some scholars see in Eustace II the patron of the Bayeux Tapestry and the carpet even as a gift for Odo of Bayeux, the Bishop of Bayeux and half brother of William the Conqueror, as a possible reparations for the attacks Eustach at Dover, which according to the conquest of England Odo's sphere of influence was ( 1067). This hypothesis is supported by the highlighting Eustach Odos and the carpet.

Eustace II was married to his second wife Ida of Lorraine († March 11, 1113 ), daughter of Duke Godfrey III. of Lower Lorraine, who got broth as dowry; his first wife, he married Goda of England, a daughter of King Æthelred II.

Progeny

  • Eustace III. († 1125 ), Count of Boulogne ∞ Mary of Scotland, daughter of King Malcolm III.
  • Baldwin I (* 1058, † 1118), Count of Verdun, Count of Edessa in 1098, King of Jerusalem 1100
  • Godfrey of Bouillon (* 1061, † 1100), Duke of Lower Lorraine 1089, first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099
  • Ida
  • Graf ( Boulogne )
  • Graf ( Lens)
  • House Boulogne
  • Born in the 11th century
  • Died in 1085
  • Man
Eustace I, Count of Boulogne Lambert II, Count of Lens Odo, Earl of Kent Duke of Bouillon Eustace III, Count of Boulogne Baldwin I of Jerusalem
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