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Source: "Northern France Artois, Boulogne, Guines, Saint-Pol" family histories.

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Titre	"Northern France Artois, Boulogne, Guines, Saint-Pol" family histories.

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EUSTACE I Count of Boulogne

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In Chapter 2, page 21/94 of this document begins the description of Boulogne, and the Counts of Flanders, and their cadet branch, the House of Boulogne.

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Chapter 2, page 21: "A. COMTES de BOULOGNE" "The county of Boulogne on the North Sea coast developed under the control of the counts of Flanders. The history of the county before its capture by Flanders has not been traced. The first Flemish count of Boulogne was Adalolf, who succeeded his fatherBaudouin II Count of Flanders in Boulogne in 918. After Adalolf died in 933, his brother Arnoul I Count of Flanders seized Boulogne and disinherited his nephews[414]. Adalolf and his immediate successors acquired control over Thérouanne, Fauquemberghesand Saint-Omer in the northern part of Ternois, but these territories were seized by Baudouin IV Count of Flanders in the early 1000s. Isolated references have been found to counts of Boulogne in the late 10th and early 11th centuries but these inidividuals have not been connected to the family of Adalolf, as shown below. Eustache [I] emerged as comte de Boulogne in the 1040s, and Boulogne continued to be held by his family until the 1120s, when it passed by marriage to a branch of the counts of Blois. A younger brother of Eustache [II] Comte de Boulogne briefly held the county of Lens in the mid-11th century, before it was incorporated into Flanders..."

Chapter 2, page 21:
"A. COMTES de BOULOGNE"

"The county of Boulogne on the North Sea coast developed under the control of the counts of Flanders. The history of the county before its capture by Flanders has not been traced. The first Flemish count of Boulogne was Adalolf, who succeeded his fatherBaudouin II Count of Flanders in Boulogne in 918. After Adalolf died in 933, his brother Arnoul I Count of Flanders seized Boulogne and disinherited his nephews[414]. Adalolf and his immediate successors acquired control over Thérouanne, Fauquemberghesand Saint-Omer in the northern part of Ternois, but these territories were seized by Baudouin IV Count of Flanders in the early 1000s. Isolated references have been found to counts of Boulogne in the late 10th and early 11th centuries but these inidividuals have not been connected to the family of Adalolf, as shown below. Eustache [I] emerged as comte de Boulogne in the 1040s, and Boulogne continued to be held by his family until the 1120s, when it passed by marriage to a branch of the counts of Blois. A younger brother of Eustache [II] Comte de Boulogne briefly held the county of Lens in the mid-11th century, before it was incorporated into Flanders..."