Stephen fell ill with a stomach disorder and died on 25 October at the local priory, being buried at Faversham Abbey with his wife Matilda and son Eustace.

He was the second son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida of Lorraine ( daughter of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine and his wife, Doda ).

While staying at his London club as he has been doing every morning for many years, Sir Eustace Pennefather, a known womanizer whose divorce from his current wife is pending, receives a complimentary box of chocolates through the post.

Disapproving of such modern marketing techniques, Sir Eustace is about to throw away the chocolates in disgust but changes his mind when he learns that Graham Bendix, another member of the club whom he hardly knows, has lost a bet with his wife Joan and now owes her a box of chocolates.

Not surprisingly, they come up with various suspects: Sir Eustace's estranged wife ; the father of a young lady whom Sir Eustace intended to marry after his divorce got through ; one of Sir Eustace's discarded mistresses ; and some more.

A series of calamities followed to test his faith: his wealth was stolen ; his servants died of a plague ; when the family took a sea voyage, the ship's captain kidnapped Eustace's wife Theopista ; and as Eustace crossed a river with his two sons Agapius and Theopistus, the children were taken away by a wolf and a lion.

He was then quickly restored to his former prestige and reunited with his family ; but when he demonstrated his new faith by refusing to make a pagan sacrifice, the emperor, Hadrian, condemned Eustace, his wife, and his sons to be roasted to death inside a bronze statue of a bull or an ox, in the year AD 118.

Behind the main altar at the Church of Sant ' Eustachio, Rome, this painting follows the narrative in the Golden Legend: For refusing to sacrifice to the gods, St. Eustace and his wife and sons are to be enclosed in a brazen bull which will be heated till they die.

# William de Vesci, Baron de Vesci, son of William de Vesci, son of Eustace de Vesci by his wife Margaret, natural daughter of King William the Lion.

Edith Thompson was born Edith Jessie Graydon on Christmas Day 1893, at 97 Norfolk Road in Dalston, London, the first of the five children of William Eustace Graydon ( 1867 – 1941 ), a clerk with the Imperial Tobacco Company, and his wife, Ethel Jessie Liles ( 1872 – 1938 ), the daughter of a police constable.

She was born in Boulogne, France, the daughter of Eustace III, Count of Boulogne and his wife Mary of Scotland, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret of Scotland.

Theresa describes Sir Eustace as a vicious abusive husband who regularly physically and verbally assaulted his wife, especially when he was drunk.

Among them the henpecked and love-starved Stanley Blunt ( Kenneth Connor ) and his prudish, overbearing wife, Evelyn ( June Whitfield ); a drunken, bowler-hatted mummy's boy, Eustace Tuttle ( Charles Hawtrey ); brash Scotsman, Bert Conway ( Jimmy Logan ); young and beautiful friends Marge and Lily ( Sally Geeson and Carol Hawkins respectively ); and Brother Bernard ( Bernard Bresslaw ), a timid young monk who has difficultly fitting into his new path of life.

In Sir Isumbras, the wife suffers no particular hardships when separated from her husband ; this is the romantic practice, but differentiates it from Saint Eustace, where the heroine lives a life of humble self-support, similar to the legends of Helena, mother of Constantine, and such romances as Emaré.

# Juliane de Fontrevault ( born c. 1090 ); married Eustace de Pacy in 1103.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

* Captain Eustace Jotham and Private John Francis Young were Victoria Cross winners in 1915 and 1918 and were born in Kidderminster

Among the slain crusaders were: Bishop Peter of Bethlehem, Stephen of Perche, brother to Count Geoffry, Renaud of Montmirail, brother of the Count of Nevers, Matthew of Wallincourt, Robert of Ronsoi, John of Friaise, Walter of Neuilli, Ferri of Yerres, John's brother, Eustace of Heumont and John's other brother, Baldwin of Neuville.

He and his brother Eustace fell into pecuniary straits, and were obliged to alienate their landed possessions.

Eustace and Ida were both descended from Louis II of France, and just within the prohibited seventh degree.

Edward and Eustace were former brothers-in-law and remained political allies.

After his army was beaten at Lincoln on 20 May 1217, and his naval forces ( led by Eustace the Monk ) were defeated off the coast of Sandwich on 24 August 1217, he was forced to make peace on English terms.

Her husbands were French, Dreux of the Vexin and Count Eustace of Boulogne.

Several Eustace residents were used as extras.

Dates are also given for the year that Susan, Edmund and Lucy were born ( 1928, 1930, 1932 respectively ) as well as Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole ( both born in 1933 ).

The latter two were the sons of his deceased youngest brother Colonel Eustace James Anthony Balfour.

The others were: Miss Lilian Lear, Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey ( Third Sea Lord ), Mr. Eustace Burrows ( cousin ), Major Herbert Cayzer ( uncle ), and The Rev.

The main conspirators, however, were Odo of Bayeux, Eustace III, Count of Boulogne, Robert de Mowbray, Geoffrey de Montbray, Earl Roger de Montgomery and other disaffected magnates.

Sir Eustace and the other knights were captured and executed.

In 1949, Lucy, Edmund, and Peter were having dinner with Eustace, Jill Pole, Polly Plummer and Digory Kirke, reminiscing about their days in Narnia when a Narnian-dressed figure appeared to them as a specter.

While the rings were retrieved, Lucy and the others got on a train to take Eustace and Jill to school, intending to use the rings on the way.

Both were waiting for Lucy, Eustace, Jill, Digory, and Polly at the station platform when the train crashed and killed them all, temporarily transporting Jill and Eustace to Narnia until the end of the world, upon which they make their way to the real Narnia, or heaven, and meet back up with Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Digory, and Polly.

Eustace calls his parents by their first names ( Harold and Alberta ); his parents are vegetarians, nonsmokers, teetotallers ( lifestyles which were very rare in 1940s Britain ), pacifists, and wear a special kind of underclothes.

Edmund shares with Eustace his own redemption story, observing that " you were only an ass, but I was a traitor.

John had pledged to compensate Eustace for the damages done to Ely during the interdict, which were estimated to have been around 1000 pounds.

He was ousted from the General Managership, after the Traffic Manager, Eustace Missenden, refused to become Acting General Manager, and threatened to resign if not confirmed as GM proper.

* 1686 – Eustace Budgell, English writer ( d. 1737 )

He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis ( 1502 ), The Sea Monster ( 1498 ), and Saint Eustace ( c. 1501 ), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.

Anthony Trollope makes two references to the abigail ( all lower case ) in The Eustace Diamonds, at the beginning of Chapter 42.

When Stephen's son and heir apparent Eustace died in 1153, the king reached an accommodation with Henry of Anjou ( who became Henry II ) to succeed Stephen and in which peace between them was guaranteed.

" In 1119, Henry's son-in-law, Eustace de Pacy, and Ralph Harnec, the constable of Ivry, exchanged their children as hostages.

When Eustace inexplicably blinded Harnec's son, Harnec demanded vengeance.

Baldwin died without heirs in 1118, during a campaign against Egypt, and the kingdom was offered to his brother Eustace III of Boulogne, who had accompanied Baldwin and Godfrey on the crusade.

Eustace was uninterested, and instead the crown passed to Baldwin's relative, probably a cousin, Baldwin of Le Bourg, who had previously succeeded him in Edessa.

The Imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys became her close adviser, and interceded, unsuccessfully, on her behalf at court.

Margaret also gave Malcolm two daughters, Edith, who married Henry I of England, and Mary, who married Eustace III of Boulogne.

The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from tales of outlaws, such as Hereward the Wake, Eustace the Monk, Fulk FitzWarin and William Wallace.

Leslie Charteris features Detective Inspector ( later DCI ) Claud Eustace Teal of Scotland Yard in several of his Saint novels, a character who reappeared in various dramatic incarnations of the series, notably on television by Ivor Dean.

Another recurring character, Scotland Yard Inspector Claud Eustace Teal, could be found attempting to put The Saint behind bars, although in some books they work in partnership.

Burl Barer reveals that an obscure early work, Daredevil, not only featured a heroic lead who shared " Saintly " traits ( down to driving the same brand of automobile ) but also shared his adventures with Inspector Claud Eustace Teal — a character later a regular in Saint books.

Stephen became increasingly concerned with ensuring that his son, Eustace, would inherit his throne after him.

The king attempted to convince the church to agree to crown Eustace to reinforce his claim: Pope Eugene III refused and Stephen found himself in a sequence of increasingly bitter arguments with his senior clergy.

Stephen began to examine a negotiated peace, a process hastened by the sudden death of Eustace.

As part of this deal, Louis recognised Stephen's son Eustace as Duke of Normandy in exchange for Eustace giving fealty to the French king.

Stephen's eldest son was Eustace and the king wanted to confirm him as his successor, although chroniclers recorded that Eustace was infamous for levying heavy taxes and extorting money from those on his lands.