Baudouin of Boulogne, archdeacon of Sudbury and Norwich

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BAUDOUIN de Boulogne (-after [1167/68]). Archdeacon of Sudbury [1143]-[1167/68]. "…Bald[uino] de Bolonia et Eustac[io] fratre eius…" witnessed a charter dated to [1145/47] under which Matilda Queen of England notified her donation to the church of Witham[563]. Archdeacon of Norwich 1164. [same person as...? BAUDOUIN “Richetala” (-after [1160]). “Faramus filius Willielmi Boloniæ” confirmed donation of land “in Belgehem [Balham], quæ pertinebat ad manerium de Clopham [Clapham]” to Okeburne Priory, Wiltshire [belonging to Bec] made by “Gaufridus filius comitis Eustacii de Bolonia avus meus, et Willielmus de Bolonia filius ipsius pater meus”, by undated charter consented to and witnessed by “fratres mei Eustacius et Simon. Hugo de Bosevilla et uxor eius, et filii ipsius Willielmi, et Robertus de Bosevilla, Baldvinus Richetala”[564]. Their consent to this confirmation suggests that all these named witnesses held an interest in the property, presumably by inheritance. If that is correct, they were all descended from Geoffroy de Boulogne. Baudouin Archdeacon of Sudbury is the only known descendant of Geoffroy called Baudouin. However, the name “Baldvinus Richetala” placed at the end of the list, far from Faramus’s other “fratres mei” and after the wife of Hugh de Bosvile (assuming that she was Faramus’s sister as suggested above), suggests a different relationship. The normal interpretation of the witness list name order, as transcribed by Dugdale, would be that Baudouin “Richetala” was the most junior of the surviving family members, maybe a different person from Faramus’s brother Baudouin (who would, in accordance with normal practice at the time, presumably have preceded his sister, whatever their relative ages). One possibility is that some distinction was introduced into the witness list because Baudouin was born from his father’s second marriage[565]. Another possibility is that he was an otherwise unrecorded first cousin of Faramus. The following document shows that Baudouin “Richetala” was still a member of Faramus’s retinue several years after the accession of King Henry II: “Pharamus” donated “terram de Piterleia” to Missenden, for the souls of “domini mei regis Henrici ert regine et puerorum suorum et...mea et uxoris mee et puerorum nostrorum”, by undated charter witnessed by “domina Matilda uxore mea...Baldwino Richetale...”[566].]