Count Eustace BOULOGNE, III
 Another name for Eustace was BOULOGNE Count.
Ancestral File Number: 8XJK-4V.
General Notes:
Count of BOULOGNE.
BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Stephen Kingof England 1135- Apr 1141, Nov 1141- 1154, Count of Mortain, Mar Matilda Daughter of Eustace III of Boulogne...Mary Daughter of Malcolm III King of Scotland Mar Eustace III Count of Boulogne Died 1125."
The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch XXI, p431:
[1214] "It was about July first that Louis set out to raise the siege of La Roche-au-Moine, and on the 27th the decisive battle of Bouvines was fought in the north before John had resolved on his next move. The coalition, on which John had laboured so long and from which he hoped so much, was at last in the field. The emperor Otto IV, the Counts of Flanders, Bologne, Holland, Brabant, and Limburg, the Duke of Lorraine, and others, each from motives of his own, had joined their forces with the English under the Earl of Salisbury, to overthrow the king of France. To oppose this combination Philip had only his vassals of northern France, without foreign allies and with a part of his force detached to watch the movements of the English king on the Loire. The odds seemed to be decidedly against him, but the allies, attacking at a disadvantage the French army which they believed in retreat, were totally defeated near Bouvines. The Earl of Salisbury and the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne with many others were taken prisoners, and the triumph of Philip was as complete as his danger had been great..."
ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJK-4V.
Marriage Information:
Eustace married Countess Mary Scotland BOULOGNE, daughter of King Malcolm Canmore SCOTLAND, III and Queen Saint Margaret Cerdic SCOTLAND, in 1102. (Countess Mary Scotland BOULOGNE was born about 1084 in , , Scotland, died on 31 May 1116 and was buried in Bermondsey, London, England.)
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