Count/Earl Eustace OF BLOIS Of Boulogne 2
- Born: 1130/1131 1
- Marriage (1): Constance Capet Of Toulouse after Feb 1140 in Paris, , , FRA 1
- Died: 16 Aug 1153, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England aged 23 1
 General Notes:
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.
Noted events in his life were:
• Title, 25 Dec 1152. 1 King of England
• Title. 1 Earl of Huntingdon
Eustace married Constance Capet Of Toulouse, daughter of King Louis Capet VI The Fat of France and Adelaide DE MAURIENNE of Savoy, after Feb 1140 in Paris, , , FRA.1 (Constance Capet Of Toulouse was born about 1128 1 and died on 16 Aug 1176 in Reims, , Champagne-Ardenne, FRA 1.)
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