Eustace, also rendered
Eustis, ( ) is the rendition in English of two phonetically similar
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given names:
*Εὔσταχυς (''Eústachys'') meaning "fruitful", "fecund";
Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Eustace
/ref> literally "abundant in grain
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"; its Latin
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equivalents are ''Fæcundus/Fecundus''
*Εὐστάθιος (''Eustáthios'') meaning "steadfast", "stable"; literally "possessing good stability"; its exact Latin
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equivalents are ''Constans
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Equivalents in other languages include Ostap Ostap ( uk, Остап) is a Ukrainian male given name. Its Russian counterpart is Evstafiy. It derives from the Greek name Eustathius.
People with this name include:
*Ostap Bender, a fictional character from the Russian novel ''The Twelve Chai ...
(Ukrainian, Russian), Eustachy Eustachy is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko (1768–1844), Polish general and politician
*Eustachy Sapieha (1881–1963), Polish nobleman, prince, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and deputy to t ...
(Polish), Yevstaphiy (Russian), Eustachio (Italian), Eustache or Eustathe (French), Eustaquio (Spanish), Eustáquio (Portuguese), Eustàquio (Valencian), Ustes (Guyanese) and Eustice (English). The originally Hebrew
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name Ethan or Eitan can also mean "steadfast" or "stable".
The Greek ''Eústachys'' is no longer used; ''Eustáthios/Ευστάθιος'' (usually transliterated ''Efstáthios'') on the other hand is still popular and often used in the informal or diminutive Στάθης (''Státhis'').
Notable people with the name
Given name
Ancient era
*Saint Eustace
Saint Eustace (Latinized Eustachius or Eustathius, Greek Εὐστάθιος Πλακίδας ''Eustathios Plakidas'') is revered as a Christian martyr.
According to legend, he was martyred in AD 118, at the command of emperor Hadrian.
Eusta ...
(died 118), Christian martyr
*Eustace or Eustathius of Mtskheta
Eustathius or Eustace of Mtskheta (Evstat'i Mtskhet'eli; ka, ევსტათი მცხეთელი) (died 550) is an Orthodox Christian saint, executed for his apostasy from Zoroastrianism by the Sasanian military authorities in Cauca ...
(died c. 550), Orthodox Christian saint
*Eustace of Luxeuil
Eustace of Luxeuil (c. 560 – c. 626), also known as Eustasius, was the second abbot of Luxeuil from 611. He succeeded his teacher Columbanus, to whom he had been a favorite disciple and monk. He had been the head of the monastic school.
Life
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(Eustasius) (c. 560 – c. 629), saint and Abbot of Luxeuil
Medieval era
*Eustace I of Boulogne
Eustace I, Count of Boulogne, was a nobleman and founder of the Boulogne branch of the House of Flanders. He held the county of Boulogne from 1024 until his death in 1047.
Life
Eustace was the elder son of Count Baldwin II of Boulogne and Adelin ...
(died 1049), father of Eustace II
*Eustace II of Boulogne
Eustace II, (), also known as Eustace aux Grenons ("Eustace with long moustaches"),Heather J. Tanner, 'Eustace (II), count of Boulogne (d. c.1087)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. was Count of Boulogne fro ...
(c. 1015–1020 – c. 1087), companion of William the Conqueror, fought at the Battle of Hastings
*Eustace III of Boulogne
Eustace III (c. 1050 – c. 1125) was the count of Boulogne from 1087 succeeding his father, Eustace II. He joined the First Crusade, being present at Nicaea, Dorylaeum, Antioch, and Jerusalem. After fighting in the battle of Ascalon, he returne ...
(before 1060 – c. 1125), rebelled against King William II of England, son of Eustace II
*Eustace IV of Boulogne
Eustace IV (c. 1129/1131 17 August 1153) ruled the County of Boulogne from 1146 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Stephen of England and Countess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English throne on Henry I's death in ...
(c. 1129 – 1153), eldest son of King Stephen of England
*Eustace (Bishop of Ely)
Eustace (died 1215) was the twenty-third Lord Chancellor of England, from 1197 to 1198. He was also Dean of Salisbury and Bishop of Ely.
Early life
Eustace was probably French or Norman by birth, and was educated at Paris. He was a student with ...
(died 1215), Lord Chancellor of England
*Eustace de Balliol
Eustace de Balliol (or Eustace de Helicourt) (died c. 1209) was the cousin and successor of Bernard II de Balliol, lord of Balliol and Barnard Castle. He was the lord of Château de Hélicourt, Hélicourt in Picardy, an estate near the chief seat ...
(died c. 1209), Lord of Balliol
*Eustace Chapuys
Eustace Chapuys (; c. 1490/92 – 21 January 1556), the son of Louis Chapuys and Guigonne Dupuys, was a Savoyard diplomat who served Charles V as Imperial ambassador to England from 1529 until 1545 and is best known for his extensive and detaile ...
(c. 1490/2 – 1556), Ambassador for the Holy Roman Empire in the English Court during the reign of Henry VIII
*Eustace of Fauconberg
Eustace of Fauconberg was a medieval English Bishop of London from 1221 to 1228 and was also Lord High Treasurer.
Biography
Eustace was the son of Walter de Fauconberg of Rise-in-Holderness in the East Riding of the English county of Yorkshire. ...
(died 1228), Bishop of London and Lord High Treasurer
*Eustace Folville
Eustace Folville (died 1347 aged almost 60) is credited with killing/assassinating the unpopular Sir Roger de Beler, Baron of the Exchequer and henchman of the despised Hugh le Despencer and ineffective King Edward II. He was the most active memb ...
(died 1346), English outlaw
*Eustace fitz John
Eustace fitz John (died 1157), Constable of Chester, was a powerful magnate in northern England during the reigns of Henry I, Stephen and Henry II. From a relatively humble background in South East England, Eustace made his career serving Henry I ...
(died 1157), magnate in northern England
*Eustace Grenier
Eustace I Granier, also known as Eustace Grenier or Eustace Garnier, called in Latin ''Eustachius Granarius'' in the charters (born around 1070 and died on 15 June 1123), was a Flemish crusader who took part in the First Crusade. He became lord o ...
(died 1123), crusader lord and Constable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
*Eustace the Monk
Eustace the Monk ( fro, Eustache le Moine; c. 1170 – 24 August 1217), born Eustace Busket,Knight 1997,. was a mercenary and pirate, in the tradition of medieval outlaws. The birthplace of Eustace was not far from Boulogne. A 1243 document m ...
(c. 1170–1217), mercenary and pirate
*Eustace de Vesci
Eustace de Vesci (1169–1216) was an English lord of Alnwick Castle, and a ''Magna Carta'' surety. He also held lands in Sprouston, Roxburghshire, Scotland as brother in-law to King Alexander II of Scotland. Eustace was a leader during the Baro ...
(1169–1216), English lord of Alnwick Castle, leader of the First Baron's War against King John I of England
* Eustace of Vilnius (died 1347), saint and martyr of the Russian Orthodox Church
* Eustathius of Ethiopia (1273-1352), Ethiopian saint who advocated for Sabbath observance
Modern era
* Eustace Akwei, Ghanaian doctor and politician
*Lord Eustace Cecil
Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry (Gascoyne-)Cecil (24 April 1834 – 3 July 1921) was a British, Conservative Party politician.
Cecil was the youngest son of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury by his first wife Frances Gascoyne and was ed ...
(1834–1921), British politician
*Eustace Conway
Eustace Robinson Conway IV (born September 15, 1961) is an American naturalist and the subject of the book ''The Last American Man'' by Elizabeth Gilbert. He has also been the subject of ''Adventures in the Simple Life'' by Sarah Vowell on the w ...
, American naturalist
* Eustace John, Governor-General of Nevis
*Eustace Lycett
Eustace Lycett (December 21, 1914 – November 16, 2006) was a British special effects artist who worked on attractions at Disneyland from the 1960s, such as Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and Rocket to the Moon, as well as contributing to Disn ...
(1914–2006), British special effects artist
*Eustace Miles
Eustace Hamilton Miles (22 September 1868 – 20 December 1948) was a British real tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, restaurateur, and a diet guru who made his name selling health products and health advice to Edward ...
(1868–1948), British real tennis player
*Eustace Mullins
Eustace Clarence Mullins Jr. (March 9, 1923 – February 2, 2010) was an American white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, propagandist, Holocaust denier, and writer. A disciple of the poet Ezra Pound,
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* Eustace George Willis, British politician
Surname
Eustace is a Dalcassian
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*Adam Eustace
Adam Eustace (born 9 January 1979 in Gloucester, England) is an English rugby union footballer. A former pupil of St Peter's High School in Gloucester, his regular position is as a lock. He re-signed to Gloucester Rugby in the summer of 2008, h ...
(born 1979), English rugby union player
*Alan Eustace
Robert Alan Eustace (born 1956/1957) is an American computer scientist who served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google until retiring in 2015. On October 24, 2014, he made a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baum ...
, American computer scientist
*Arnhim Eustace
Arnhim Ulric Eustace (born 5 October 1944) is a Vincentian retired politician and economist. He served as the third Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and is the former Leader of the Opposition and former president of the New D ...
(born 1944), Vincentian politician, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Arthur Eustace (born 1926), New Zealand former sprinter, athletics coach and administrator
*Bartholomew J. Eustace
Bartholomew Joseph Eustace (October 9, 1887 – December 11, 1956) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Camden in New Jersey from 1938 until his death.
Biography
Early life
Bartholo ...
(1887–1956), American Roman Catholic bishop
*Cristina Eustace
Cristina Eustace (born as Cristina Yasmin Rascón Meléndez on May 25, 1979, in the city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua) is a Mexican people, Mexican singer. She was also the winner of the Objetivo Fama (Fifth Season), fifth season of Objetiv ...
(born 1979), Mexican singer
*Dudley Eustace
Dudley Eustace is a British businessman, having many executive functions in Dutch companies. He is well known for his restructuring work being finance director of Philips and Ahold.
Eustace is currently the Chairman of Aegon and VNU, now called ...
, English businessman, director of Dutch companies
*Frank Eustace
Frank John Eustace (November 7, 1873 – October 16, 1932), was a Major League Baseball catcher for the Louisville Colonels
The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that also played in the American Association (AA) througho ...
(1873–1932), American baseball player
*James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass
James FitzEustace of Harristown, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass
(1530–1585)
James FitzEustace, the eldest son of Rowland Eustace, 2nd Viscount Baltinglass and Joan, daughter of James Butler, 8th Baron Dunboyne. He was born in 1530 and died in Spain in ...
(1530–1585), Anglo-Irish Catholic noble rebel
*Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, ''The Mother and the Whore'', is c ...
(1938–1981), French filmmaker
* John Chetwode Eustace (c.1762–1815), Anglo-Irish Catholic priest and antiquary
*John Eustace
John Mark Eustace (born 3 November 1979) is an English professional association football, football Coach (sports), coach and former Football player, player who is head coach of club Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City.
During his playing car ...
(born 1979), English football player
* John Thomas Eustace (1825-1919), politician of the Cape Colony
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* Sir Joseph Lambert Eustace (1908–1996), Vincentian educator, businessman and politician
*Katharine Eustace
Katharine Eustace (born 16 April 1975) is a New Zealand skeleton racer. She is a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
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(born 1975), New Zealand skeleton racer
*Mary Jo Eustace
Mary Josephine "Mary Jo" Eustace (born May 1, 1962) is a Canadian actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, model, author, and sous-chef best known as co-host of the Canadian cooking TV series '' What's for Dinner?''.
Early life
Eustace was born and ...
(born 1962), Canadian actress, singer and sous chef
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* Peter Eustace (born 1944), English football player
*Robert Eustace
Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton (1854–1943), an English doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation. He also wrote as Eustace Robert Rawlings. Eustace often collaborated with oth ...
, pen name of Eustace Robert Barton (1854–1943), English doctor and author
*Rowland Eustace, 2nd Viscount Baltinglass
Roland Eustace, 2nd Viscount Baltinglass of Harristown, County Kildare, Ireland, was born in 1505 and died in 1578. He was the son of Sir Thomas Eustace (1480–1549), 1st Viscount Baltinglass and Margaret Talbot, daughter of Sir Peter Talbot of ...
(1505–1578), Anglo-Irish Catholic noble
* Scott Eustace (born 1975), English footballer
*Stuart Eustace
Stuart Malcolm Eustace, born 3 May 1979 in Birmingham, is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper who started playing Twenty20 cricket in 2005 for Warwickshire. He has also played Minor Counties cricket for Devon
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(born 1979), English cricketer
*Thomas Eustace, 1st Viscount Baltinglass
Thomas Eustace, 1st Viscount Baltinglass (-1549) was an Anglo-Irish noble who achieved wealth and influence by prudently remaining loyal to the English Crown. He was born circa 1480 at Caslemartin, County Kildare.
Family
He was the son of ...
(c.1480–1549), Anglo-Irish Catholic noble loyalist
*Tim Eustace
Timothy James Eustace, commonly known as Tim Eustace (born December 27, 1956) is an American chiropractor and Democratic Party politician from Maywood, New Jersey who served in the New Jersey General Assembly, representing the 38th Legislative ...
(born 1956), American chiropractor and politician
Fictional characters
*Eustace Bagge
This is a list of characters from the Cartoon Network animated series, ''Courage the Cowardly Dog''.
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Courage
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, the farmer from the 1999 TV series
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''Courage the Cowardly Dog
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* Sir Eustace Brackenstall, ''The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
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'' by Arthur Conan Doyle
* Eustace Caradoc, Lord Miltoun, in John Galsworthy's novel ''The Patrician'' (1911)
*Commissioner Eustace Dolan, ''The Spirit
The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940, as the main feature of a 16-page, tabloid (paper size), tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book insert distributed in the Sunday editio ...
'' 1940s comic strip character
* Ethne Eustace, ''The Four Feathers
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*Eustace Clarence Scrubb
Eustace Clarence Scrubb is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's ''Chronicles of Narnia''. He appears in ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', ''The Silver Chair'', and ''The Last Battle''. In ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', he is accompanie ...
, from ''The Chronicles of Narnia
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*Eustace Strytch, from '' The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius''
*Eustace Tilley
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, ''The New Yorker'' magazine character
* Eustace Wooster, cousin of Bertie Wooster
Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is a fictional character in the comedic Jeeves stories created by British author P. G. Wodehouse. An amiable English gentleman and one of the "idle rich", Bertie appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose intelligenc ...
, in P.G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jee ...
's ''The Inimitable Jeeves
''The Inimitable Jeeves'' by P.G. Wodehouse was the first of the Jeeves novels, although not originally conceived as a single narrative, being assembled from a number of short stories featuring the same characters. The book was first published ...
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See also
* Eustice, a surname
* Maurice Eustace (disambiguation)
References
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