Geoffrey Fitz Eustace^[1]

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• Name	, Geoffrey Fitz Eustace
  Birth	18 Sep 1060	Boulogne, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Jul 1100	Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  Death	18 Jul 1100	Jerusalem, Israel
  WAC	21 Jun 1935	ARIZO   [2]
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  Father	BOULOGNE, Count Eustace II ,   b. 1030, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Franced. 1093, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 63 years)
  Mother	BOUILLON, Countess Ida de ,   b. Abt 1040, Lorraine, France Lorraine, Franced. 13 Aug 1113, Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	Dec 1057
  Family ID	F16433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	PERCY, Manfred de ,   b. 1000, Italy Italy
  Family ID	F16434	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MANDEVILLE, Beatrix de ,   b. 1061, Rycott, Oxfordshire, England Rycott, Oxfordshire, Englandd. 19 Apr 1097, Richling, Essex, England (Age 36 years)
  Children	3 sons and 1 daughter
  + 1. BOULOGNE, William de ,   b. Abt 1080, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Franced. Aug 1129, Rycote, Oxfordshire, England (Age 49 years)   2. NORMANDY, Sylvia ,   b. Jul 1088, Bournonville, Lorraine, France Bournonville, Lorraine, Franced. 15 Aug 1126, Boulogne-sur-mer, Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 38 years)   3. BOULOGNE, Eustace de ,   b. Abt 1090, Anjou, France Anjou, Franced. Aft 1100 (Age > 11 years)   4. BOULOGNE, Faramus de ,   b. Abt 1100, France Franced. DECEASED
  Family ID	F15906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  From Colby: ". . . Galfred and other associates and their families joined forces with Ralph the Ganger, son of a Norwegian Viking who was leading his people to a warmer climate. The emigrants sailed up the River Loire and settled in the province of Maen in Normandy. Here Manfred and his family adopted the name "Percy". "Brave Galfred to Normandy with vent'rous Rolla came; And, from his Norman castles won, assumed the Percy name." Note: The above quotations infer that Ralph the Ganger was the son of Rollo (R1, see "Ancestry of Rollo The Viking), and that Manfred and Galfred came in Rollo's original expedition into what he called Normandy. However this is apparently not the case. Manfred is listed as being born in the year 972. Rollo resigned as the first Duke of Normandy in the year 927. Therefore, either the date of Manfred's birth is incorrect, Thomas Percy was incorrect in stating that Galfred came to Normandy with Rollo, or the Rolla Thomas Percy mentioned is a different man. He assisted Rollo the Dane in the conquest of Normandy in the ninth century. His name or his father's name could have been Bustace. BIRTH: Also shown as Born , , Buckinghamshire, England. Fitz (pronounced "fits") is a prefix in patronymic surnames of Norman origin, that is to say originating in the 11th century. The word is a Norman French noun meaning "son of", from Latin filius (son), plus genitive case of the father's forename Geoffrey is the illegitimate son of EUSTACHE [II] Comte de Boulogne & his mistress --- (died after 1100).  His parentage is confirmed by an undated charter under which his grandson “Faramus filius Willielmi Boloniæ” confirmed donations to Okeburn Priory, Wiltshire by “Gaufridus filius comitis Eustacii de Bolonia avus meus, et Willielmus de Bolonia filius ipsius pater meus”[319].  Murray[320] suggests that Geoffrey may have been born legitimate because (1) his descendants were known as "de Boulogne", (2) he married well, and (3) he was given the first name of his father's older brother.  Murray further suggests that, if this is correct, he would have been Comte Eustache's son by Godgifu of England, whose marriage may have been annulled for consanguinity, which would have resulted in the bastardisation of their children.  Geoffroy was mentioned in a writ of William I King of England dated [1066/71].  Lord of Carshalton.  Domesday Book records land held from “Geoffrey son of Count Eustace” in Carshalton, Surrey, adding that "Geoffrey de Mandeville gave him this land with his daughter"[321].  William I King of England confirmed the donations in Balham and Walton by "Godfrey son of Count Eustace on behalf of his wife Beatrice, with the consent of Geoffrey de Mandeville", by charter dated to [1076/84][322].  He held the manor of Coton, Cambridgeshire from his father in 1086[323].

  
  

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  [S72] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Galfrid; Male; Birth: About 1050 Of Of Bucks, , , England; Baptism: 05 AUG 1995 SDIEG; Endowment: 30 JAN 1997 SDIEG; Sealing to Parents: 10 JUN 1997 SDIEG; Bustace /; Father: Bustace; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church to request LDS temple ordinances. Search performed using PAF Insight on 24 Sep 2004