Boulogne

Eustace de Boulogne

Married: Mahaut de Louvain

Children:
Occupation: Count of Boulogne

Notes:
Genealogia Comitum Buloniensium (ed. L. C. Bethmann) in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica vol 9 p301 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Hanc Mathildem duxit uxorem comes Eustacbius de Bolonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios, Eustachium et Lantbertum.
This roughly translates as:
This Mathilde was married to Count Eustace of Bologna, and by her he begot two sons, Eustace and Lambert.

The Complete Peerage vol 1 p352 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by Vicary Gibbs, 1910)
  [ADELAIDE or ADELIZ, sister of William the Conqueror] m., 2ndly, Lambert, (a) COUNT OF LENS in Artois, who d. s.p.m., being slain in 1054.
  (a) He was yr. s. of Eustace I, Count of Boulogne, by Mahaut, da. of Lambert I, Count of Louvain.

The Conqueror and his companions vol 1 p122 (James Robinson Planché, 1874)
  Adelaide, sister of the Conqueror, … married secondly, and in the first year of her widowhood, Lambert, Count of Lens, in Artois, and brother of Eustace II., Count of Boulogne

Death: 1049, when his son succeeded as count of Boulogne

Sources:

Judith of Lens

Birth: Cokayne states Judith's birth to be either 1054 or 1055, based the death of her mother's first husband, Enguerrand, on 25 October 1053 and the death of Judith's father in the summer of 1054. It has been pointed out, however, that Adelaide and Enguerrand's marriage had been condemned at the Council of Rheims in October 1049, so Adelaide could have been married to Lambert (and Judith possibly born) before Enguerrand's death.

Father: Lambert de Boulogne

Mother: Adelaide of Normandy

Married: Waltheof in 1070

Children:
Notes:
Judith was the niece of William the Conqueror.
Vita et Passio Waldevi comitis pp10-1 (ed. John Allen Giles, 1854).
Postmodum prædictus Waldevus regi concordatus, Judithæ neptis ejus connubio et magna regis amicitia donatus est. Pro nobilitate generis, et possessionum et proprietatum amplitudine, concessit ei rex Willelmus totam terram suam pacificam, liberam et solutam, eique dedit ducendam in uxorem neptem suam Juettam, filiam comitis Lamberti de Lens, sororem nobilis viri Stephani comitis de Albemarlia; cum qua rex ei contulit et concessit omnes libertates quæ sunt de honore de Huntendonia. In celebratione vero matrimonii et nuptiarum, nomine dotis contulit comes uxori suæ omnes terras suas a fluvio de Trente in austrum protensas. Quæ processu temporis de viro suo duas filias suscepit: Matildam videlicet et Aliceam. 
This is translated in Early sources of Scottish history, A.D. 500 to 1286 vol 2 p33 (Alan Orr Anderson, 1922)
Afterwards the aforesaid Waltheof, being reconciled with king [William], received as a gift the marriage of [the king’s] niece Judith, and the great friendship of the king. Because of the nobility of his race, and the extent of his possessions and properties, king William granted him all his land, in peace, in freedom, and without cost [solutam]; and gave him, to be his wife, his niece Ivetta, the daughter of count Lambert of Lens, and sister of the noble man Stephen, the count of Aumale. With her the king conferred upon and conceded to [Waltheof] all the liberties that belong to the honour of Huntingdon. And in the celebration of marriage and nuptials the earl conferred upon his wife, in name of dowry [nomine dotis] all his lands that extended from the river Trent towards the south [in austria]. In process of time she received from her husband two daughters; namely Matilda and Alice.

Judith denounced her husband in his trial for treason, that led to his execution.
Dictionary of national biography vol 59 pp265-7 (ed. Sidney Lee, 1899)
  WALTHEOF … After the Danes had left England he went to meet the king, who was encamped by the Tees in January 1070, submitted to him, took an oath of fealty, and was restored to his earldom (ORDERIC, p. 515). William gave him to wife his niece Judith, a daughter of his sister Adelaide, by Enguerrand, count of Ponthieu,
… In 1075 … Christmas he was brought to trial before the king at Winchester, on the charge of having been privy to, and having abetted, the late rebellion, his wife Judith informing against him. He allowed that he knew of the conspiracy, but flatly denied that he had in any way abetted it. Sentence was deferred, and he was committed to stricter custody at Winchester than before. In prison he passed his time in seeking to make his peace with God by prayers, watchings, fastings, and alms-giving, often weeping bitterly, and daily, it is said, reciting the whole psalter, which he had learned in his youth (ib. p. 536; FLOR. WIG.) He is also said to have besought the king to allow him to become a monk (Liber de Hyda, p. 294).
  Lanfranc expressed his conviction that the earl was innocent of treason and that his penitence was sincere (FLOR. WIG.) That he did take the oath of conspiracy seems as certain as that he speedily repented of doing so. It is probable that the other conspirators, with or without his assent, used his name to induce the Danes, with whom it would have great influence, to invade England; that he did not tell this to the king, and possibly was not aware of it; and that when William found that the Danish fleet had come, he thought far more seriously of Waltheof’s part in the conspiracy than before, and was led by his niece, the earl’s wife, to believe, truly or falsely, that her husband was the cause of their coming.
… Waltheof’s execution was an unprecedented event, and the Conqueror, who, though terrible in his punishments, never condemned any one else to death, must have been influenced in his case by some special consideration such as would be afforded by the belief that he was the main cause of a foreign invasion. The act of severity has been regarded as the turning point in William’s reign, and was believed to have been connected with his subsequent troubles and ill-success (FREEMAN, u.s. p. 605; ORDERIC, p. 544). Though his father was a Dane by birth, Waltheof was regarded as a champion of English freedom and a national hero, and his penitence and death caused him to be venerated by the English as a saint and martyr. His body was first buried hastily at the place of execution; a fortnight later the Conqueror, at Judith’s request, allowed Abbot Ulfcytel to remove it to Crowland, where it was buried in the chapter-house of the abbey.
…
  Waltheof left three daughters. The eldest, Matilda, married, first, Simon de Senlis, who was in consequence made earl of Northampton [q. v.]; by him she was mother of Waltheof (d. 1159) [q. v.]; she married, secondly, David I [q. v.] king of Scotland. The second, Judith, married Ralph of Toesny, the younger; and the third married Robert FitzRichard [see under CLARE, RICHARD DE, d. 1090?] (WILLIAM OF JUMIÈGES, viii. 37). His widow Judith founded a house of Benedictine nuns at Elstow, near Bedford (Monasticon, iii. 411).

After Waltheof's death, it is said that the king wanted her to marry Simon de St. Liz, but she refused. Simon later married Judith's daughter Maud.
Early sources of Scottish history, A.D. 500 to 1286 vol 2 p33 (Alan Orr Anderson, 1922)
  Life of Waltheof, C.A.N., ii, 123-124: “Of the countess. The countess Judith, earl Waltheof’s widow, after the death of her lord, along with her two daughters had the lordship [dominacionem] of the honour of Huntingdon, which had been conferred upon her in name of dowry [nomine dotis] And they lived there, until the king wished to give [Judith] in marriage to a certain knight, a native of France, called Simon Silvanectensis [or] of Senlis.” Judith refused, because Simon was somewhat lame. “And for this reason the king [William I] burst into indignation; and burning with the vehemence of his anger conferred the whole honour of Huntingdon, as having devolved upon the king’s hands, upon the said Simon. And thenceforward the same Simon was called the earl of Northampton and of Huntingdon: and for a long time he held the lands and possessions that pertain to them” (ibid, 124-125). This is probably a tendencial account.

Judith founded a house of Benedictine nuns at Elstow, near Bedford, in 1078.
Monasticon Anglicanum vol 3 p411 (William Dugdale, 1846)
ELSTOW, or Elnstowe Nunnery, about a mile and a half from Bedford was founded in the time of King William the Conqueror, by his niece Judith, wife to Waltheof earl of Huntingdon, and dedicated to the honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and St. Helen. Bishop Kennett dates the foundation about the year 1078.
  Among the entries of the lands of the countess Judith, in the Domesday Survey for Bedfordshire, two or three relate to the Nuns of Elstow. They held under the countess five hides a virgate and a half in Meldone, three hides at Winessamestede, and three hides and a half at Elnestou.

The Complete Peerage vol 6 pp639-40 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by Vicary Gibbs, 1926)
  1. WALTHEOF, … While attending the wedding of Ralph de Gael, Earl of Norfolk, at Exning in the spring or summer of 1075, he was enticed to join the conspiracy of the Earls of Norfolk and Hereford to seize England for themselves. He quickly repented, and by Lanfranc’s advice Went to Normandy and asked pardon of the King, who treated the matter lightly at the time; but at Christmas Waltheof was brought to trial at Westminster, his wife Judith being a witness.(c) He was imprisoned at Winchester, where on the resumption of the trial in May he was condemned and beheaded on St. Giles’s Hill, 31 May 1076, and hastily buried. He m., in 1070, Judith,(e) da. of Lambert, COUNT OF LENS, by Adelaide or Adeliz, sister of the Conqueror. He d. as aforesaid, s.p.m. 31 May 1076,(f) and a fortnight later the Abbot Ulfketel, at Judith’s request and by the King’s permission, removed his body to Crowland, where it was honourably entombed. His widow, who as “Judith the Countess” is recorded in Domesday Book to have held estates in many counties in 1086, most of them apparently gifts from the King, her unc1e,(a) held Huntingdon in dower.(b) She founded the Nunnery of Elstow, near Bedford.(c)
  (c) Vita et Passio Waldevi comitis (ed. Giles), p. 13.
  (e) Orderic, vol. ii, p. 221. On her parentage see ante, vol. i, sub AUMALE. She must have been born in 1054 or 1055, so that she would be under 17 when married to Waltheof.
  (f) He left 3 daughters: (1) Maud, who m., 1stly, Simon de Saint Liz or Senlis, and, 2ndly, David I, King of Scotland, both being Waltheof’s successors in title. (2) Judith or Alice, who m. Ralph de Toni the younger (Will. of Jumieges, bk. 8, c. 37). Alice is the name given in the Vita at Passio. Ralph de Toni and Alice his wife endowed a house of canons at Wastacre, Norfolk (Dugdale, Monasticon,vol. vi, p. 576). Alice widow of Ralph de Toni gave the Church of Walthamstow in Essex to Holy Trinity Priory (Christ Church), Aldgate (Idem, p. 152). Walthamstow was one of the manors held by Waltheof, and then by the Countess Judith. (3) A daughter said to have m. a Robert son of Richard (Will.of Jumieges). There is perhaps some confusion, for Maud, da. of Simon de St. Liz I, is said to have married a Robert son of Richard (see below).
  (a) Ellis, Intro. to Domesday Book, vol. i, p. 440.
  (b) Vita et Passio, p. 18.
  (c) Dugdale, Mon., vol. iii, p. 411 (quoting Leland, Collect., vol. i, pp. 41, 56); V.C.H. Beds, vol. i, p. 353. Gifts to the Abbey made by Judith are recorded in Domesday Book.

The Complete Peerage vol 9 p662 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by H. A. Doubleday, 1936)
      NORTHAMPTON
Domesday Book supplies us with no evidence in the case of Northampton corresponding with the details given of the pre-Conquest Earl’s third in Huntingdon;(e) in 1086 the Countess Judith had £7 of the issues of the borough of Northampton, but this does not appear to be her dower qua Countess, because the burgesses rendered to the sheriff £30 10s.(f)
  (e) Domesday Book, vol. i, fo. 203.
  (f) Idem, fo. 219.

The Complete Peerage vol 9 p706 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by H. A. Doubleday, 1936)
      NORTHUMBERLAND
  1. HENRY (of Scotland), EARL OF HUNTINGDON, only s. and h. ap. of David I, KING OF SCOTLAND, by Maud, eld. da. and coheir of Waltheof, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, HUNTINGDON and NORTHAMPTON, by Judith his wife, da. of Lambert, COUNT OF LENS, by the Conqueror’s sister Adelaide

Sources:

Lambert de Boulogne

Father: Eustace

Mother: Mahaut de Louvain

Married: Adelaide of Normandy

Children:
Occupation: Count of Lens
Lambert became count of Lens in 1047. Lens is located about 20 kilometers south-east of Béthune and the same distance north-west of Douai in the feudal county of Artois and the present-day French département of Pas-de-Calais. Lens emerges in primary sources as a separate county in the mid-11th century, held by Lambert, younger son of Eustache [I], count of Boulogne.  The process by which the county was acquired by the Boulogne family has not been ascertained.  After Lambert's death, the county of Lens reverted to his older brother Eustache.

Notes:
Genealogia Comitum Buloniensium (ed. L. C. Bethmann) in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS 9 p301 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Henricus senior genuit5 Lambertum comitem et Henricum fratrem eius et Mathildem sororem eorum. Hanc Mathildem duxit uxorem comes Eustacbius de Bolonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios, Eustachium et Lantbertum.
  5 Falsum. Henricus senior non pater fuit Lamberti atque Mathildis, sed frater.
This roughly translates as:
Henry the Elder begot5 count Lambert and his brother Henry and their sister Mathilde. This Mathilde was married to count Eustace of Bologna, and by her he begot two sons, Eustace and Lambert.
  5 False. Henry the Elder was not the father of Lambert and Mathilde, but the brother.

The Complete Peerage vol 1 p352 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by Vicary Gibbs, 1910)
  [ADELAIDE or ADELIZ, sister of William the Conqueror] m., 2ndly, Lambert, (a) COUNT OF LENS in Artois, who d. s.p.m., being slain in 1054.
  (a) He was yr. s. of Eustace I, Count of Boulogne, by Mahaut, da. of Lambert I, Count of Louvain.

The Conqueror and his companions vol 1 p122 (James Robinson Planché, 1874)
  Adelaide, sister of the Conqueror, … married secondly, and in the first year of her widowhood, Lambert, Count of Lens, in Artois, and brother of Eustace II., Count of Boulogne, and had by him a daughter, named Judith, whose hand was given by her uncle, William the Conqueror, to Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland. Count Lambert could scarcely have seen the birth of his child, for he was killed at Lille the following year, in a battle between Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and the Emperor Henry III.

Death: killed in the summer of 1054, at the battle of Lille
Lambert was at the battle supporting Baldwin V, Count of Flanders against Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.

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