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From: "Peter Stewart" < >
Subject: Re: EXTENDED PEDIGREE OF COUNTS OF BOULOGNE-SUR-MER
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:53:16 GMT
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> Dear Newsgroup ~
>
> Dr. Heather Tanner's recent book, Families, Friends and Allies -
> Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, c. 879-1160
> (Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2004), states the following in footnote 39 on
> page 79:
>
> "Although Rigaux thinks that Eustache I was the brother of Arnulf II of
> Ternois, his death in 1047 strongly suggests that he was Baldwin's son,
> not brother. Rigaux's genealogy does not include Baldwin of Boulogne,
> which overlooks the evidence of the 988 charter for St. Peter's Gent
> issued by Baldwin IV."
>
> As we can see, Dr. Tanner accepts Count Baldwin as the father of Count
> Eustache I of Boulogne. As she is the current authority on the Counts
> of Boulogne, I see no reason to doubt her conclusions.
The 988 charter in question was issued by Count Balduin and his mother Quuen
Susanna ("ego Balduinus marchysus cum matre mea Susanna regina"). This is
the famous document where she first occurs with that name, and more
mysteriously with that title, still existing in the original and dated
before she had married King Robert II.
It was clearly issued in the wake of her first husband Count Arnulf II's
death, probably immediately after his obsequies for which the neighbouring
counts and important nobles had gathered in Ghent. The only evidence
relating to a Count Balduin, apart from the principal who was still a child,
is the subscription "Signum Balduini comitis". Pace Heather Tanner, this is
not definite evidence for a Count Balduin of Boulogne.
Peter Stewart
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