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ROGER DE BELLOMONT, Lord of Pont Audemer, who gave name to the town of Beaumont in Normandy, He accompanied William the Conqueror on his successful expedition into England in 1066 and had a common in the army sent against Malcolm the Third, King of Scotland. The Abbey of Preaux in Normandy, the foundation of which had been laid by his father, he finished and endowed. Roger de Bellomont became a monk in the Abbey of Preaux, where he died and was buried. He married Adelina, only daughter of Walleran, Earl of Mellent, getting with her the Earldom of Mellent. He gave name to the town Beaumont Le Roger in Normandy. He persuaded the Norman Duke to invade England, and in fact accompanied him on that expedition. He succeeded to the family estates in Normandy, as Sire du Pont Audemer, Seigneur de Veulles, Preaux, Torville, and du Pnteaitorf, and Seigneur de Beaumont (or Bellomont), by which last name he came to be generally described. By his marriage he greatly increased the possessions and prestige of the family, and he rose to be one of the most powerful feudal noblemen of his age in Normandy. When William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, Roger de Beaumont furnished sixty armed vessels for the fleet and was left in charge of the government of Normandy when the Conqueror started on the expedition. He munificently endowed the Abbey of Preaux, of which late in life he became a monk; and dying in 1094 at advanced age, he was buried in this monastery at Pont Audemer. He married about 1040 Adeline de Meullant, daughter and eventually sole heiress of Waleran, Comte de Meullant, a great feudal nobleman of France.
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