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400 400 ST. IDA had rocovored his health and fallon in love with his nurse, to whom ho was shortly afterwards married. The king presented them on the occasion with estates worthy of their rank, and ap- pointed Egbert dake and governor of all the Saxons between the Bhino and the Weser, at the same time charging him with the defence of the northern frontier of the empire against the heathen Danes. One of the first halting-places of the young couple within their now domains was Hertzfeld on the Lippe, where they rested one night in a pleasant wood. Here Ida had a dream, in which an angel told her to bnild a chnrch on that spot, and this she afterwards did. Their resi- dence was at Hovestadt or Drevenik, in Westphalia. They had a son, Liadolph (see St. Hadumada), and a daughter, Ilardwido or Hadwic, abbess of Herford, which was the first monastery built on Saxon ground. Warinus, abbot of Cor- yei, has been said to be their son, but this is not certain. Oiesebrecht calls him a brother of Egbert. Egbert died a few years after his marriage, and Ida buried him in the great church they had built at Herzfeld, and thenceforth became a religious re- cluse, devoting herself to works of charity and devotion. She built herself a small oratory attached to the church, and in it she placed a marble tomb for herself, and, until she should be laid there, she filled it twice a day with food for the poor. At her death, which is generally placed in the same year as that of Charlemagne (814), she was universally venerated as a saint, and the miracles she wrought were so striking that in the following century (the 10th) a solemn translation of her body was mode, and a church belonging to the Monastery of Herford was consecrated in the joint names of St. Mary and St. Ida. Her Life by Uflfing was written in the 10th century, when her worship was already very popular. Her name is in the Auciaria to Usuard, by Greven and Molanus, and in the German Martyr- ology, by Walasser and Canisius. Pertz, Monumenta Germanise Scriptoren, ii. 5G9, 681. Surius, VUsr SS.y pp. 663-666. AA.8S, Falke, Traditionum Corbeien- slum J p. 361. Leibnitz, Script, Serum Brunstoicenaiumy i. 171. Clarus, Die Heiliyc Mathilde, St. or B. Ida (o), April 13. +1113. Countess of Boulogne in Picardy, and of Namur. Mother of the Kings of Jerusalem. Patron of Bonlogne-sur- mer. Daughter of Grodfrey, duke of Lorraine, a descendant of Charlemagne. Second wife of Eustace II., oount c^ Boulogne, whose first wife was Mary of Scotland, daughter of St. Maboarst. Eustace and Ida had three sons — Eustace III., count of Boulogne, Grod^y of Bouillon, and Baldwin, suooeasively kings of Jerusalem. Ida brought up and educated all her children with the greatest care, and founded several churches and monasteries. Eustace III. was among the noblemen of Boulogne who joined William of Normandy in the invasion of England. He died in 1070. Ida survived him more than forty years. She was very enthusiastic for the Crusade. To enable her sons to go as became their rank, she sold and mortgaged a great part of her property. She received from Otbert, bishop of Li6ge, 1300 marks of silver and three marks of gold for Bouillon, reserving the right to buy it back. Then, with her children's consent, she sold her estates of Genappes and Boisy, in Brabant. In Le Mire's Oriylnes Ben,y p. 70 (Euen's Collectio)^ is the diploma of B. Ida. For her soul, that of her father, and her husband. Count Eustace, she gives to the monks of Hafflingham five "mansos" of land in her estate of Grenassia, her sons Godfrey, Eustace, and Baldwin co-operating, 1096. Baillet, from her Life written a few years after her death. Le Glay, HisL des Conies de Flandres, i. L>4. William of Malmes- bury, iv. 2. Le Mire, Annales, Moreri, Die. HisLf tom. 5, folio 2110. Lappen- berg, Saxon Kinys, ii. 300 and 457. Biog, Nationale de Belgifjue, Giese- brecht, iii. B. Ida (6) of Spanheim, Jutta (2). B. Ida (7) of Hohenfels and Span- heim, March 1 and Oct. 29. Ida married