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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 956 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUSTACE IV . (d. 1153) became the See also:

heir-apparent to his See also:father's possessions by the See also:death of an See also:elder See also:brother before 1135. In 1137 he did See also:homage for See also:Normandy to See also:Louis VII. of See also:France, whose See also:sister, See also:Constance, he subsequently married. Eustace was knighted in 1147, at which date he was probably from sixteen to eighteen years of See also:age; and in 1151 he joined Louis in an abortive See also:raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the See also:title of the empress See also:Matilda, and was now defended by her See also:husband, See also:Geoffrey of See also:Anjou. At a See also:council held in See also:London on the 6th of See also:April 1152 See also:Stephen induced a small number of barons to do homage to Eustace as their future See also:king; but the See also:primate, See also:Theobald, and the other bishops declined to perform the See also:coronation ceremony on the ground that the See also:Roman See also:curia had declared against the claim of Eustace. The death of Eustace, which occurred during the next See also:year, was hailed with See also:general See also:satisfaction as opening the possibility of a peaceful See also:settlement between Stephen and his See also:rival, the See also:young See also:Henry of Anjou. The See also:Peterborough See also:Chronicle, not content with voicing this sentiment, gives Eustace a See also:bad s ecial discussions of See also:Eusebius' See also:separate See also:works, particularly of his See also:Church See also:History, and of his See also:character as an historian, cannot be referred to here. Elaborate See also:bibliographies will be found in See also:McGiffert's See also:translation, and in Preuschen's See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck. (A.C.

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