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Données personnelles Count Eustace III of Boulogne 

• Il est né en l'an 1059 dans Boulogne, Pas-De-Calais, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France.
• Il est décédé en l'an 1125 dans Boulogne, Pas-De-Calais, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France, il avait 66 ans.
• Un enfant de Eustace II of Boulogne et Saint Ida of Lorraine

Famille de Count Eustace III of Boulogne

Il avait une relation avec Mary of Scotland.

Enfant(s):

1. Matilda of Boulonge  1105-1152 

Notes par Count Eustace III of Boulogne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_III,_Count_of_Boulogne

II (c. 1050 - c. 1125) was the count of Boulogne from 1087, succeeding his father Count Eustace II.^[1] His mother was Ida of Lorraine.

or: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">In 1088, Eustace supported the rebellion against William II of England in favour of Robert Curthose.^[2]

First Crusade" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade">First Crusade of 1096 along with his brothers Godfrey of Bouillon (duke of Lower Lotharingia) and Baldwin of Boulogne. It is unclear whether he travelled eastward with his brother Godfrey's or Robert Curthose's army. His contingent^[3] included Hugh II of Saint-Pol and his son Engelrand, Eustace I Granarius, lord of Sidon and Caesarea, Fulk of Guînes, and Hugh of Robecq (Rebecques), lord of Hebron. Throughout the crusade Eustace assisted Godfrey.^[4] Eustace was present at the Siege of Nicaea (May–June 1097), helped rescue Bohemund of Taranto's beleaguered troops at the Battle of Dorylaeum (July 1, 1097), defeated an enemy ambush during the Siege of Antioch and was one of the commanders during the capture of Antioch on June 3, 1098.^[5]

he conflict over the control of Antioch between Bohemund of Taranto and Raymond IV of Toulouse.^[6][7] Early December 1098 Eustace joined Raymond's attack on Maarrat al-Nu'man and an attack on Nablus in July 1099. He gained notoriety for his actions during the Siege of Jerusalem fighting relentlessly from a siege tower along with his brother Godfrey and the warriors they commanded. They were among the first to breach Jerusalem's city walls and participated in the ensuing massacre. Finally Eustace commanded a division of the crusader army during the Battle of Ascalon.^[8]

While his brothers stayed in the Holy Land, Eustace returned to administer his domains. To commemorate Eustace's crusading adventures the mint at Boulogne struck silver coins with a lion above the walls of Jerusalem stamped on the obverse.^[9]

serif;">Eustace married Mary, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter:

yles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515'); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">ion-line: none; color: #0645ad; background: none;" title="Matilda of Boulogne" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Boulogne">Matilda of Boulogne.x; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;">When his youngest brother king Baldwin I of Jerusalem died in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne. Eustace was at first uninterested, but was convinced to accept it; he travelled all the way to Apulia before learning that a distant relative, Baldwin of Bourcq, had been crowned in the meantime. Eustace returned to Boulogne and died about 1125.

y of Boulogne was inherited by his daughter, Matilda, and her husband Stephen de Blois, count of Mortain, afterwards king of England.

t-decoration-line: none; color: #0645ad; background: none;" title="Cluniac" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluniac">Cluniac house of Rumilly and was patron of the Knights Templar.^[10]

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