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A Royal Son: Eustace, Count of Boulogne

11/23/2024

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Medieval illuminated manuscript image of a genealogy tracing from Henry I to Henry II with Stephen and Eustace in the middle
When England's King Henry I died in 1135, his nephew Stephen usurped the throne. Had Stephen's reign been an accepted success, his son Eustace would have been recognized as the next in line to become king, but that did not come to pass. Here, Christine recounts Eustace's story, from growing up during a period called 'The Anarchy' to the aftermath of learning he would never wear the crown.

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Further Reading
Marjorie Chibnall, The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother, and Lady of the English, Blackwell, (1991).

John Gillingham, Richard I, Yale University Press, (2002).

Catherine Hanley, Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior, Yale University Press, (2019).

Edmund King,  ‘Eustace, count of Boulogne (c. 1129-1153)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, (2013). 


----, King Stephen, Yale University Press, (2010).

Matthew Strickland, Henry the Young King, 1155-1183, Yale University Press, (2016).

W.L. Warren, Henry II, University of California Press, (1973).

Emma Slattery Williams, "Your guide to the Anarchy, the bloody battle between Stephen and Matilda", History Extra, (2021).

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Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1466-1467, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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