Edelin ancestry
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Baldwin II, Count of Boulogne. His ancestors descended from
St. Angilbert, Count of Ponthieu and abbot of St. Richaire, who m. Bertha,
dau. of Charlemagne. Their sons and grandsons were Counts of Ponthieu and
then our line became Counts of Montruil, then finally the Counts of Boulogne.
Baldwin II's sons were
1. Eustace I Count of Boulogne, grandfather of Godfrey de Bouillon.
2. John DeBurgh de Conteville de Boulogne, Baron of Tonsburgh and Count
of Comines in Normandy, commanding general in William's conquest of England.
A grandson of John's was:
Adelin DeBurgh de Conteville. Adelin was the French pronunciation of "Aetheling",
meaning an Anglo-Saxon English prince. I do not know if Adelin was his title,
his Christian name, or his nickname. He was so called because his mother,
the aunt of King Stephen of England, was connected with the Anglo-Saxon
English royal lineage.
One of Adelin's sons was:
William Fitz Adelin DeBurgh de Conteville, of Yorkshire and Cumberland,
England. d. 1202. Sheriff of Cumberland, Royal Dapifer and Marshall to the
King.
The above is from a typed page I found in my grandmother's things, on which
my father or someone with the same handwriting had scrawled: "Rank
snobbery". The lineage of the Counts of Boulogne given above is indeed
accurate, and the linguistic connection between Aetheling and Edelin is
something I've heard from different places, and is plausible. But I have
no idea whether a lineage from Adelin to the Edelins, much less to our
specific line in D.C., has been discovered.
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