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Robert de BEAUMONT E of Leicester

• Death: 5 JUN 1118, Leicestershire, England
• Burial: Chapter House, Preaux

• Reference: 1031

• Marriage: 1096
• Divorce: Y

1. Waleran de BEAUMONT* C of Meulan
2. Robert de BEAUMONT E of Leicester
3. Elizabeth de BEAUMONT
4. Maud de BEAUMONT*

                                                                                                                              ___________________________
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                                                        _Thorold Seigneur de Pont-Audemer_|
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                      _Humfrey de Vieilles de Vieilles_|
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                     |                                 |                                   _UNKNOWN Sire de Crepon___________|___________________________
                     |                                 |_Avelina de Crepon________________|
                     |                                                                    |                                   ___________________________
                     |                                                                    |__________________________________|___________________________
 _Roger de BEAUMONT _|
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|                    |_Aubreye de La Haie______________|
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|--Robert de BEAUMONT E of Leicester
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|                                                       _Robert C of Meulan_______________|
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|                     _Waleran C of Meulan_____________|
|                    |                                 |                                                                      _Walter I C of Vexin_______
|                    |                                 |                                   _Walter II "the White" C of Vexin_|_Adele of Anjou____________
|                    |                                 |_Alix de Vexin____________________|
|                    |                                                                    |                                   _Bernard C of Senlis_______
|                    |                                                                    |_Adele of Senlis__________________|___________________________
|_Adeliza of Meulan__|
                     |                                                                                                        _Baldwin I Baron Tonsburgh_
                     |                                                                     _Baldwin II Baron Tonsburgh_______|___________________________
                     |                                  _Jean de BURGO Baron Tonsburgh____|
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                     |_Oda de BURGO ___________________|
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Notes

(151:25), (215:24).

Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Leicester, pp. 523-526). b. about 1046,

accompanied WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR (RIN 798) in the invasion of

England in 1066, and having greatly distinguished himself at the battle

of Hastings, was rewarded with vast possessions in England, receiving

ninety one great lordships or manors, mostly in Warwickshire. Upon the

death of his mother in 1081 he became Comte de Meulan in France.

After the death of THE CONQUERER he adhered to King William Rufus and

was in high favor at his court. He quarrelled with Robert of Normandy

about the castellanship of Brionne, for which he was imprisoned, but

later released through the intersession of his father. Robert succeeded

to the greater part of his father's lands in Normandy including Beaumont,

Pont-Audemer, Vatteville, and Brionne. This paternal inheritance, added

to his French compte and to his great possessions in counties Warwick

and Leicester, made him one of the most powerful vassals of the Crown.

After the death of William Rufus, he became one of the chief advisors to

KING HENRY I (RIN 789). Upon the death of Ivo de Grandmesnil (RIN 1365*)

[See his notes for the details leading up to this situation], Robert

became lord of those estates also. This gave him one quarter of the

town of Leicester, to which KING HENRY later added the remaining three

quarters. In 1104 Robert was one of the barons who adhered to KING

HENRY on his arrival in Normandy. He was present in THE KING's army at

Tenchebrai in 1106. In 1110 he was beseiged at Meulan by [the French

King] LOUIS VI (RIN 1531), who took the castle by storm, but in the

following year he retaliated by a rain on Paris, which he plundered.

"ROBERT DE BEAUMONT (or DE BELLOMONT), about 1107 was probably

created Earl of Leicester in England by KING HENRY I., and d. 5 June 1118,

aged nearly eighty years. (P) He m. (1) Godechilde de Toeni (RIN 5349*),

daughter of RALPH DE TOENI, Seigneur de Conches in Normandy; they had

no children and were divorced. [As explained in the note below, this is in

error.] (P) He m. (2), about 1096, ISABEL DE VERMANDOIS, daughter of

HUGH THE GREAT, Comte de Vermandois in France."

--- J Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy*, Boston, 1914, p 5

Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (TONY, p.760, in note e), says: "Godehut,

who m. Baldwin, s. of Eustace, Count of Boulogne. . . Orderic gives her as

1st husband Robert, Count of Meulan, which is a mistake."