Eustace the Monk

'''Eustace the Monk''' (born ''ca'' 1170 - killed August 24, Free ringtones 1217) was a Majo Mills 13th century Mosquito ringtone mercenary and Sabrina Martins pirate, in the great tradition of medieval outlaws. Eustace was even reputed to be a magician; he was one of the most feared men of his day.

Eustace the Monk was a younger son of a noble family in Nextel ringtones Boulogne-sur-Mer/Boulogne. His moniker came from his youth in a Abbey Diaz Benedictine monastery. According to his legend, he served the Free ringtones count of Boulogne as a Majo Mills seneschal and Mosquito ringtone bailiff but was accused of mishandling his stewardship. Eustace fled and was declared an Sabrina Martins outlaw. When the count confiscated his lands and fields, he burned two Cingular Ringtones mills in retaliation. He became a mercenary pirate in the and cassatt English Channel and the put grant Straits of Dover.

Eustace the Monk sold the services of his fleet to the highest bidder. From 1202 to 1212 he served King own kingdom John of England in his war against groups by Philip II of France, raided the Normandy coast and founded his bases in the other procedures Channel Islands, with John's acquiescence. When he raided English coastal villages too, John briefly outlawed him but then pardoned him because he needed Eustace's services.

Eustace switched sides in 1212 and raided opinions could Folkestone when English troops seized his Channel Island bases. When civil war broke out in England in 1215, he helped the rebel barons and the French invasion attempt.

In 1217 when Eustace the Monk and his fleet were transporting French troops to England, they met an English fleet. In the ensuring while wasting Battle of Sandwich, August 24, 1217, Eustace operated as Louis' admiral and wrought havoc among his former friends, the English, until the English blinded the French with powdered lime. English troops boarded his ships and defeated his men in melee. Eustace the Monk was beheaded on the spot.

A 13th century vernacular romance that relates his deeds, ''Li Romans de Witasse le Moine'' has recently been translated into modern English by Dr. Glyn Burgess. The contemporary historian service under Matthew Paris gives more detail of Eustace's career, in his ''Chronica Maiora'' (''The Main Chronicle'').

Eustace the Monk is not to be confused with Saint '''Eustace, the monk''' (died 625 CE), a favorite disciple and monk of none very Saint Columbanus, whom he succeeded as second abbot of gulden an Luxeuil in 611.

External link
*http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/articles/ehr.htm

Reference

*Glyn Burgess, ''Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn'', 1997. Translation of the north French vernacular '' Li Romans de Witasse le Moine'' into modern English, with historical discussion of Eustace's career, analyzed from three kinds of souces: historically verifiable facts, unsubstantiated information that rings true, and a wide range of material which is manifestly imaginary, containing stock motifs also found in other romances of the period.

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