Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne

English noble
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Eustace IV (c. 1129/1131  – 17 August 1153) ruled the County of Boulogne from 1146 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Stephen of England and Countess Matilda I of Boulogne.[2] When his father seized the English throne on Henry I's death in 1135, he became heir apparent to the English throne but predeceased his father.

Eustace IV
Count of Boulogne
Reign25 December 1146 – 17 August 1153[1]
PredecessorsMatilda I and Stephen
SuccessorWilliam I
Bornc. 1130[1]
Died17 August 1153 (aged c. 23)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1140)
HouseBlois
FatherStephen, King of England
MotherMatilda I, Countess of Boulogne

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Heather J. Tanner, Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, ed. B. Wheeler, John C. Parsons, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 153.
  2. Edmund King, Eustace, count of Boulogne, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004