AthelingEustace of Boulogne attacks Dover
A Norman ally turns on the king and the men of Kent rise with him.
What the record says
Eustace, who had fought at Hastings, crossed with a small force and tried to seize Dover castle with Kentish support while the king was in Normandy. The garrison held and Eustace lost his English lands, though he was later reconciled.
Certainty
| Fact | Value | Certainty |
|---|---|---|
| Date | 1 October 1067 | Exact |
| How sure we are | High | Of this record as a whole |
People
Eustace, Odo.
Related events
- William sails for Normandy
The new king spends most of 1067 across the Channel, leaving Odo and fitzOsbern to govern.
Sources
Where this is recorded
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Avalon Project)
- William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi, ed. R. H. C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall, Oxford Medieval Texts, 1998
- Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester
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