The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-26

A correspondent of the London AtbeHdUW
writes as follows
The hero of the first Crusade is said to have
been the son of a count of Bouillon. There
was a Eustace, Count of Boulogne, of Cuisines
and Terouenne, who figures largely in our an
nails. He visited England before the con-
quest, and married Coda, sister of Edward
the Confessor. Returning homewards with
his bride, he got into a discreditable squabble
with the people of Dover, and embroiled the
whole nation so effectually that Earl Goodwin
and his family were banished in 1851. In
this journey he was the precursor of Duke
William, whose subsequent visit, made while
Saxon influences were at discount, may
have been owing to his representations In
1906 he joined William in his memorable ex-
pedition, and, performing prodigies of valor
at Hastings, was rewarded with land in many
countries; much of it being the forfeited pro
perty of his old opponent Godwins family;
notably. Westerham, in Kent, and Witham, in
Essex. Besides his marriage with the widow ed
Coda or Godgifa, mentioned above, he sub
seQuently welded Ida of Lorraine, sister, and
apparently heiress, to Godfrey lie Bossu, Duke
of Lotharingia. He had three sons:--1.
Godfrey of Bouillion, Marquis of Anvers,
Duke of Brabant and Lasse Lorraine. and
King Of Jerusalem; ,. Baldwin, Count Of
Edessa, second King of Jerusalem g.
Eustace, Earl of Boulogne, the only one who
appears to have left issue. He married Maria
daughter of Malcolm, King of Scotland.
Matilda his daughter and heiress, married
Stephen, Earl of Blois, afterwards King of
England. King Stephen gave Witham,
which he thus inherited, with other immense
possessions, to the Templars. His only son,
Eustace, Earl of Boulogue, who died young,
also dealt in the same manner with other pro-
peIty derived from the same source. l do
not know the fate of the first Eustace He
opposed Williams Justiciaries in 1867. fled
from England, was reconciled, returned, and
lived to fight again in the reign of William
Rufus. In DOmesday he is always called
Count Eustace." Clear as all this may seem,
it is open to doubt. Mr. Wright, in his Ills
tory of Essex, calls Godfrey grandson of this
Eustace. The penny Cyclopedia" says (Y.,
POO that Godfrey's father was named Gus
tayus. None mention a wife, yet, according
to an entry in DOmesday, he appears to have
been married when young. In Domesday,
under the county of Surrey are mentioned
many possessions of Geoffrey de Vaudeville,
powerful Norman baron. He was Portreeve,
or Governor, of London for the Conqueror.
He possessed one hundred and eighteen lord
ships in various counties; had his headquar-
ters at Walden, in Essex, and founded the
monastery of Hurley, in Berks He was
grandfather of the first Earl of Sussex. This
is what Domesday records Of his possessions
at Aultone in the hundred Of Waletun, Sur
rey:-''De his hid: ten: Wesman vi hid: de
Goisfrido filio Count Eustachii. hanc ira: ded:
eli Goisfrid: de Mannevil Gu: fila sua" 1 read,
"Of these hides, Wiseman holds six hides from
Godfrey, son of Count Eustace, which land
Geoffrey de Vaudeville gave to him with his
daughter" If there is faith in records this
must refer to Godfrey of Bouillon; aud the
gift is evidently marriage portion. 1t is
curious to note the identity of Godfrey and
Geofrey. Both names are called Goisfrid.
The hundred of Waletun corresponds | be-
lieve. with the modern Wallington; but am
not aware if Aultone has been traced. The
survey was finished in 1856 The hero of
'Gorusalemme Liberata" was born about
1860 In 1881 he was fighting in Germany
for and against the Emperor Henry the
Fourth, who married his sister PraXeda,
started on the crusade 1896, reached Jerusa,
lem 1899, died 100. History is silent about
this marriage.