I76846: Ada Eugenia BECK (3 Jun 1907

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"A Companion of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, 1066. Count Boulogne, Lens Also Earl of Bononia."

Children
Marie DE BOULOGNE b: ABT 1056
Eustache III Count DE BOULOGNE b: abt 1059 in Of Boulogne, Pas-De-Calais, France
Baudouin I DE BOULOGNE b: abt 1062 in Of Boulogne, Artois, France (Baudouin I de Bouillon )
Godfrey DE BOUILLON b: abt 1065 in of Bouillon, Belgium (Galfrid (Geoffrey) de Boulogne)

i. Eustache II, Count of Boulogne and Lens (d c1080)
m1. (c1036, sp) Goda of England (dau of Ethelred II 'the Unready', King of England)
m2. Ida of Lorraine (d 1113, dau of Godfrey II 'der Bartige', Duke of Upper and Lower Lorraine)

Eustace II, (d. 1093), count of Boulogne, was the husband of Goda, daughter of the English king Æthelred the Unready, and aunt of Edward the Confessor. He was the son of Eustace I.

Eustace paid a visit to England in 1051, and was honourably received at the Confessor's court. A brawl in which he and his servants became involved with the citizens of Dover led to a serious quarrel between the king and Earl Godwine.

The latter, to whose jurisdiction the men of Dover were subject, refused to punish them. His lack of respect to those in authority was made the excuse for outlawing himself and his family. In 1066 Eustace came to England with Duke William, and fought at the battle of Hastings.

In the following year, probably because he was dissatisfied with his share of the spoil, he assisted the Kentishmen in an attempt to seize Dover Castle. The conspiracy failed, and Eustace was sentenced to forfeit his English fiefs.

Subsequently he was reconciled to the Conqueror, who restored a portion of the confiscated lands.

Eustace died in 1093, and was succeeded by his son, Eustace III.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

"Those Flemings who had followed Count Eustace II of Boulogne to England in 1066 and received their territories there from William of Normandy, were now being offered large tracts of Scotland because their Lady had become that country’s Queen.

In England, Henry II’s reign was marked by acts of oppression against those Flemings who had supported Stephen of Blois. Flemish noblemen were compelled to flee back across the Channel for their own safety and many of their humbler followers were forcibly removed to farming colonies such as those in Pembrokeshire, far from both the seats of English power and the cross-Channel ports from which help might have come. The East Midlands Boulonnais instituted a second wave of immigration into Scotland, where they joined their relatives already there, and were joyfully received by their royal kinsmen, successively kings of Scotland, Malcolm the Maiden and William the Lion. The latter’s choice of heraldic device, of necessity an innovatory one since he was not heir to any Boulonnais territory, underscores the sudden fashion for lions. But the tinctures were those of Boulogne. That curious device the tressure, found only in the armorials of Flanders and Scotland must have been adopted from the former country to mark the Charlemagnic descent from Queen Maud through her grandfather, Count Lambert of Lens.

In Scotland the seed of the Eustaces had ruled untroubled since the marriage of Maud de Lens to David I. Supported by descendants of her own house of Boulogne and their kinsmen, men such as Walter the Fleming (now Seton), Gilbert of Ghent/ Alost (now Lindsay), Robert de Comines ISt Pol (now Comyn and Buchan), Arnulf de Hesdin (now Stewart and Graham), the counts of Louvain (now Bruce), the hereditary advocates of Bethune (now Beaton), the hereditary castellans of Lille (now Lyle), and all their cadets and followers, her own descendants continued on the throne until the tragic untimely death of her great-great-grandson, Alexander II, in 1286, followed by the equally disastrous death at sea of his own heiress and granddaughter, the little Maid of Norway, in 1290.

It has not been sufficiently understood that the wars of the Scottish succession were intimately concerned with an insistence by the Boulonnais there that their own blood should continue on the throne. For Flemings had married Flemings and by now south and east Scotland was largely populated by men and women whose ancestors had come from Gent, Guines, Ardres, Comines, St Omer, St Pol, Hesdin, Lille, Tournai, Douai, Bethune, Boulogne. The 1290 break in the Scottish-Boulonnais succession provided the English monarchy with a heaven-sent opportunity to annul the Charlemagnic descent. Stepping in as friend and mediator, Edward I flung his armed weight behind John Baliol - a man who, although undoubtedly a Fleming, was not descended in the male line from the old comital house of the Eustaces. Nor has it been properly appreciated that the Ragman Rolls of the 1290s, by which an allegiance to Edward I had to be sworn by men described by later historians as “Scottish nobles”, were simply lists of important people of Flemish ancestry wherever they might be found; in fact many of the names are recognisable as belonging to Boulonnais living in the East Midlands, among them the Seatons of Rutland and descendants of the Lincolnshire Gilbert of Ghent."

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"page 89, DANIEL CARROLL BRENT, (5--4), of "Richland," Stafford Co., Va., d. Jan. 21, 1814; member of the House of Delegates; m. Jan.3, 1782, Ann Fenton Lee, dau. of Thomas Ludwell and Mary (Aylett)Lee, of "Bellevue." (See Lee lineage.)."

Children
2 William Brent b: 13 JAN 1783 d: 13 MAY 1848 + Winifred Beale Lee b: 3 FEB 1790 d: 26 SEP 1833
2 Thomas Ludwell Lee Brent b: 9 AUG 1784 d: 6 OCT 1847 + Francisca ?? b: Abt 1795 d: Abt 1859
2 Adelaide Brent b: 25 DEC 1786 d: 12 OCT 1825 + ?? Elwes
2 Eleanor Carroll Brent b: 11 OCT 1787 d: MAR 1846 + John Douglas Simms
2 George Lee Brent b: AUG 1793
2 Mary Aylett Brent b: 3 OCT 1795 + James G. Taliaferro
Sources: "Colonial Families of the United States of America, Brent Family"

Marriage 2 Euphan Wallace

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Josiah d. 1818 ^[S1422]

My Southern Family

Ada Eugenia BECK

3 Jun 1907 - 12 Aug 1991

ID Number: I76846

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EUSTACHE II de BOULOGNE Count of Boulogne and Len

ABT 1006 - 1093

ID Number: I28867

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Daniel Carroll BRENT

1759 - 21 Jan 1814

ID Number: I32783

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Alexander MARR

ABT 1770 - ____

ID Number: I30413

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Josiah MOSELEY

ABT 1760 - 1818

ID Number: I84083

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Elizabeth SAUNDERS-MURPHY

1749 - 17 Mar 1772

ID Number: I99621

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Mary Caroline WEAVER

1849 - ____

ID Number: I43017

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ELIZABETH WINDSOR

ABT 1590 - ____

ID Number: I103353

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