Matilda/Maud Of LOUVAIN

Family/Spouse: Eustace I. Eustace (son of Baldwin III Count Of BOULOGNE and ALEIDA) was born about 1004; died about 1049. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count In the Moselgau Frederick II Duke Of Lower LORRAINE. Frederick (son of Frederick I Of LUXEMBOURG and Ermentrude Of GLEIBERG) was born about 1005; died on 18 May 1065. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Count of Lens
• Fact: Count or Seigneur of Lens-Aumale

Lambert married Adelaide Of NORMANDY between 1053 and 1054. Adelaide (daughter of Robert I and Arlette DE FALAISE) was born about 1030 in Normandy, France; died in 1081/4- 1090. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Eustache "aux Gernons"
• Fact: 1054, Count of Boulogne and of Lens
• Fact: 14 Oct 1066, Was present in the Norman army at Battle of Hastings; A companion of William I, The Conqueror

Eustache married Godgifu in 1036. Godgifu (daughter of Ethelred II "The Ready" King Of ENGLAND and Emma Princess Of NORMANDY) was born about 1005 in Wessex, England; died in 1049. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eustache married Ida Of BOUILLON in Dec 1057. Ida (daughter of Geoffrey II "the Bearded" and Dada) was born about 1040 in Bass, Lower Lorraine, France; died on 13 Aug 1113. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: DODE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jutta married Duke of Lower Lorraine Waleran II Count Of Arlon And LIMBURG between 1060 and 1061. Waleran (son of Waleran I Count Of ARLON and Adelaide Of Upper LORRAINE) died between 1070 and 1082. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married Waltheof II in 1070. Waltheof (son of Siward Biornsson Earl Of NORTHUMBERLAND and Aelflaed II Of NORTHUMBERLAND) was born about 1045 in Northumberland, England; died on 31 May 1076 in Executed; was buried in Crowland, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Count of Edessa

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Count of Bologne, Duke of Lower Lorraine

Notes:

Name:
Domesday tenant 1086 at Carshalton, Surrey, a leader of the First Crusade, elected King of Jerusalem, but took the title Advocate of the Holy Sepulcher (as Godfrey I): succeeded by his next younger brother Baldwin, Count of Edessa, who became Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, d. 2 Apr 1118.

The book "Ancestral Roots" by Frederick Lewis Weis, has much to say about the name Godfrey or Geoffrey, his wife and son. They are on pages 152 and 153. I'm just going to quote a little of it:

While the holdings of Geoffrey de Mandeville were not nearly as great as those of Eustace of Boulogne, he was a very substantial landholder in 11 counties and his daughter a suitable match for "Godfrey", who had already inherited a great deal from his maternal uncle. that De Mandeville would have alienated property in order to give his daughter in marriage to a bastard son of Count Eustace, lacking any substantial prospects, is highly unlikely.

More recently, Johnson and Cronne, good historians but poor linguists, have used Round's article to "correct" Davis. The true identity of Geoffrey/Godfrey was recognized again by Miss Catherine Morton, who has been in touch with DHK and with Sir Anthony Wagner on this matter. Wagner (1975, p. 253, with an unfortunate misprint) mentions the "confusion" between "Godfrey and "Geoffrey." It was there asusmed that the confusion was ancient and that Eustace's son, Godofred, was genuinely a Godfrey. It should be emphasized, however, that actually the confusion is entirely modern due to the use of "Godfrey" to transcribe a name which is etymologically "Geoffrey" (the Germans use "Gottfried" both for the leader of the first crusade and for Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou--one may regard this either as desirable consistency or doubled error).

Wagner cites the views of Stephen Runiman, a historian of the crusades, pointing out that crusader sources make no suggestion of a wife for "Godfrey" and emphasizing his chastity. However, a wife and child left England would not necessarily have been known to such sources, nor was there anything notable in a Crusader leaving a wife behind, though certainly noteworthy if he brought a wife with him. Runciman's further suggestion that "Godfrey might have made some sort of "morganatic" alliance must be rejected. The concept is completely foreign to the period, save, perhaps, among the Welsh, and would, in any case, hardly apply to a marriage of "Godfrey/Geoffrey" with Beatrice de Mandeville, of family whose status was fully comparable to his own. It is extremely unlikely that "maritagium", the term used for Goisfrid's marriage, would be applied to a union which was in any way irregular. Runciman is looking back from the days of Godfrey's greatness, rather than realistically appraising the situation at the time of his marriage.

The child left by "Godfrey" in England was William de Boulogne, bearer of one of the oldest English surnames, for William was neither Count of Boulogne nor from Boulogne. He should appear with some frequency in the English records, for his son, Faramus, held extensive estates in widely separated parts of England (Somerset, Surrey, Essex, Oxford, Buckinghamshire, Suffolk, probably Kent and Northumberland.) William appears as a witness to a document of 1106 and in a couple of later documents. Perhaps he is a still-unrecognized William Fitz-Geoffrey of other documents.

the heir of Faramus was his daughter, Sybil, who married Enguerrand de Fiennes, whose heirs are the extant Fiennes family. However, Faramus had two younger brothers, Eustace and Simon, who witnessed his charter confirming land grants at Balham by Clapham made to the Abbey of Bec by their father and grandfather. The Eustace de Boulogne of that document may well be the Eustace de Boulogne who appears in a document of 1145-7 with his brother Baldwin de Boulogne, the King's chaplain, who could, therefore, be another brother of Faramus. Widicumbe and Ash, in Martock, which had been held by Count Eustace before the Norman conquest, passed to his heir, William, Count of Boulogne (son of King Stephen), who granted these properties to his cousin, Faramus de Boulogne, from the overlordship passed to the Fiennes family. The sub-holders, however, were Boulognes, and in 1227 the sub-holder was a second Faramus de Boulogne, son of Thomas. Presumably Thomas was a grandson or great-grandson of a brother of the first Faramus.

In later mediaval period, "de Boulogne" (de Bolonia, de Bononia) became "Boleyn" and still later "Bullen". Admiral Sir Charles Bullen, a hero of Trafalgar, and his relatives probably have a male line descent from "Godfrey"/Geoffrey, as may also the Somerset families of Ashe, Martock, Crewkerne, Widicumbe/Whitcomb; the Boulognes, alias Bamptons, of Oxford; the Bernes, of Kent; and perhaps the Rochesters and Lavers of Essex. An apparent female relationship connected the Boulognes of Somerset with the Beaumonts of Northumberland, and the Boulognes and Widicumbs of Yorkshire may be of the family.

However, the name Boulogne also came into England much later with merchants from the Boullonnais, and it is apparently from one such family that Queen Anne Boleyn derived. Much remains to be done before fully documented unbroken pedigrees can be established, but Godfrey's English wife and child can now be recognized.

Family/Spouse: Beatrice DE MANDEILLE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Count of Boulogne and Lens
• Fact: 1125, Went of 1st Crusade

Eustache married Mary Of SCOTLAND in 1102. Mary (daughter of Malcolm III CANMORE and St. Margaret Of SCOTLAND) was born about 1084 in Scotland; died on 31 May 1116 in St. Saviors Monastery, Bermondsey, Middlesex, England; was buried in Abbey Of St. Savior, Bermondsey, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Heinrich I, Count von Limburg-Arlon
• Fact: Pfalzgrave of the Rhine and of Lorraine
• Fact: Adherent to the Emperor Henry IV in his quarrel with his son

Notes:

Henry I (c.1059 ? c.1119) was the count of Limburg and Arlon from 1082 to his death and duke of Lower Lorraine between 1101 to 1106. He was the son of Waleran I of Limburg and Jutta, daughter of Frederick, Duke of Lower Lorraine.

He opposed Egilbert, Archbishop of Trier, and took back some property which the former Countess Adela had given to the church. Egilbert summoned him to return them, but he refused and was excommunicated. Egilbert took up arms and seriously defeated him.

As advocate of the abbey of Saint-Trond, a title he had inherited from his father, he intervened in the internal affairs of the abbey. The abbot Herman, named by Poppo, Bishop of Metz, and supported by Godfrey of Bouillon and Henry, fell out with the Emperor Henry IV and the abbey was transferred to the authority of Arnold, Count of Looz. Arnold forced Henry and Godfrey to withdraw from the monastery.

After many local nobles left on the First Crusade, among them Godfrey, Henry's power in the region of Belgia was greatly increased and he abused it, especially against the monasteries. The emperor intervened and took Limburg in July 1101. Henry was now forced to make submission and he was granted the duchy of Lower Lorraine, which Godfrey had abandoned on Crusade.

As duke, he fell into competition with Godfrey I of Louvain. He demonstrated little in the way of loyalty the emperor either. He joined Henry V against his father the emperor, but then turned back to the emperor's side. This was unfortunate for the duke, for the emperor died in 1106 and the partisans of Henry V attacked those of his father. The fields of Belgia were devastated, Limburg was taken, and Henry was imprisoned in Hildesheim. The duchy was transferred to Godfrey of Louvain.

Henry later escaped and tried to retake Limburg and Lower Lorrain. He failed and made peace with the new emperor and duke. He continued nevertheless to employ the ducal title as "Duke of Limburg," the first of a long line. He also readily joined revolts against Henry V, fighting at the side of Lothair, Duke of Saxony, at the victories of Andernach in 1114 and Welphesholt on 11 February 1115. He was succeeded by his son Waleran.

He married Adelaide of Podenstein (or Pottenstein) (1061 ? 1106), daughter of Boso of Podenstein and Judith of Schweinfurt, daughter of Otto III, Duke of Swabia. They had the aforementioned Waleran and three daughters. He may have been the father of Simon, Constable of Jerusalem after the First Crusade.

Family/Spouse: Adelaide VON BOTENSTEIN. Adelaide (daughter of Boto VON BOTENSTEIN and Judith VON SCHWEINFURT) was born about 1059 in Arlon, Luxenbourg, Belgium; died after 13 Aug 1106. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Ralph IV DE TOENI in 1103. Ralph (son of Ralph III DE TOENI and Isabel/ Elizabeth DE MONTFORT) died about 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Countess of Huntingdon and Northumberland

Maud married Simon DE SAINT LIZ in abt. 1090. Simon (son of Ranulph "the Rich" and ? UNKNOWN) was born in Normandy, France; died about 1111 in La Charite-Sur-Loir, Nievre, France; was buried in reinterred St. Neots, fRance. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married David I "The Saint" in 1113/4 in Scotland. David (son of Malcolm III CANMORE and St. Margaret Of SCOTLAND) was born between 1080 and 1082 in Scotland; died on 24 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England; was buried in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: ? UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Crowned: 22 Mar 1136, Westminster Abbey
• Death: 3 Jul 1151, Hedingham Castle, Kent

Matilda married Stephen of BLOIS about 1120. Stephen (son of Stephen III Of BLOIS and Adela Of ENGLAND) was born about 1095 in Blois, England; died on 25 Oct 1154 in St Martins Prior, Dover, England; was buried in Faversham Abbey, Faversham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]