of Lower Lorraine. His birthplace was probably Boulogne-sur-Mer, although one 13th-century chronicler cites Baisy, a town in Lower Lorraine (Southern Belgium and Northern France). In 1076, Godfrey’s maternal uncle, Godfrey the Hunchback, who was childless, named him the heir to the duchy of Lower Lorraine, the county of Verdun, the margraviate of Antwerp, and the territories of Stenay and Bouillon. The French crusader Godfrey of Bouillon (ca. Godfrey of Bouillon, from a fresco painted by Giacomo Jaquerio in Saluzzo, northern Italy, in 1420 ca.
After 23 November, 1098, a number of the crusaders left Antioch with Raymond, but Godfrey of Bouillon and Robert, Count of Flanders, began to march on Jerusalem only at the end of February, 1099.
Biography. Godfrey I of Louvain founded Afflighem abbey by charter dated 1086 which also records the donation of property "juxta in villa Asca" made by "fraterque meus Godefridus". Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine and first King of Jerusalem, son of Eustache II, Count of Boulogne, and of Ida, daughter of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lower Lorraine; b. probably at Boulognesur-Mer, 1060; d. at Jerusalem, July 18, 1100 (according to a thirteenth-century chronicler, he was born at Baisy, in Brabant; see Haignere, Memoires lus a la Sorbonne, Paris, 1868, 213). The duchy of Lower Lorraine was important because it was a safety zone between France and Germany.
GODFREY OF BOUILLON (c. 1060–1100), a leader in the First Crusade, was the second son of Eustace II., count of Boulogne, by his marriage with Ida, daughter of Duke Godfrey II. 1060-1100) was one of the chief lay leaders of the First Crusade and the first ruler of the newly formed state of Jerusalem. He succeeded his brother in 1095 as Count of Leuven. During Godfrey's lifetime this region was part of the Holy Roman Empire..
Our Possible Kinship with Godfrey of Bouillon My mother was a descendant of Edward Southworth, the Pilgrim of Leiden, Holland, who may have belonged to the Southworth family of Samlesbury.
Godfrey of Bouillon was born around 1060 as the second son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida, daughter of the Lotharingian duke Godfrey the Bearded by his first wife, Doda. Godfrey of Bouillon was born around 1060 in either Boulogne-sur-Mer in France or Baisy, a city in the region of Brabant (part of present-day Belgium). Godfrey was the second son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida, daughter of Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine. He was in conflict with Richer Bishop of Liège over the county of Brugeron in 1095/96.