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Earl of Bulloigne in Picardy. He married Goda, sister by the father's side to Edward the Confessor, and was father to the famous Godfrey of Bulloign, who won Jerusalem from the Saracens. This Eustace had large possessions in England at the time of the Survey.

Earls did not usually add their shires to their Christian names till about the time of Richard the Ist.

Seld. Tit. Hon. p. 636.

From Tonebrige in Kent, where he chiefly resided, and had the lands three miles round it every way. He is sometimes called Richard de Benefacta, or Benfield, Richard Fitz Gilbert, and Richard de Clare.

He was eldest son of Gilbert Crispin earl of Brion in Normandy, came into England with William the Conqueror, and was with him at the battle of Hastings, and for his services there, and propinquity of blood, was raised by him to great honours, and large possessions, and among the rest to the earldom of Clare; and he and William de Warren succeeded Odo bishop of Baieux, and William Fitz Osborn, as justiciaries of the realm.

Dugd. Orig. Brady's Int. 274.

He was sheriff of Kent, and one of the judges in the county court when the great cause between Lanfrank and Odo was tried. {{nop} Rh