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Personal data Roger de Beaumont, Seigneur de Pont-Audemer 

• Alternative name: Roger DeBEAUMONT
• He was born about 1022 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France.Source 2
• Alternative: He was born in the year 1022 in Pont, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France.
• He died about 1094 in Abbey of Préaux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie (as a monk).Source 4
• Alternative: He died in the year 1094 in Préaux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France.
• He is buried in Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, France.
• A child of Humphrey de Pont Audemer, and Aubreye de la Haye,

Household of Roger de Beaumont, Seigneur de Pont-Audemer

He is married to Adeline de Meulan.

They got married in the year 1040 at Ile de France, France.

Child(ren):

1. Robert de Beaumont,  1046-1118 
2. Henry de Beaumont,  ± 1048-1119 

Notes about Roger de Beaumont, Seigneur de Pont-Audemer

Roger de Beaumont; Seigneur (feudal Lord) of Beaumont, Pontaudemer, Brionne and Vatteville, Normandy; married Adeline, sister of Hugh Count of Meulan and daughter by his 1st wife of Waleran Count of Meulan. [Burke's Peerage]s eldest son, Robert count of Meulan. That Roger took his name from Beaumont is a part of the general history of Normandy. It follows that Roger's descendants, the counts of Meulan, the Earls of Leicester, and the Earls of Warwick, all derive from Beaumont-le-Roger. [The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]NEUR of BEAUMONT AND PONT-AUDEMER, was eldest son of Humphrey. He appears to have remained faithful to the young Duke William during the disturbances of the earlier part of his reign, in the course of which he defeated and slew Roger de Tosny. He is said to have furnished 60 ships for the invasion of England. He did not accompany the expedition, but remained in Normandy as the principal adviser of the Duchess Maud, to whom the government of the duchy was entrusted. In 1071 the King committed Morcar as a prisoner to his custody. Up to the year 1082 he constantly appears as a witness to the charters of William the Conqueror. At the -time of the Domesday Survey, 1086, he held land in Dorset and co. Gloucester. About 1088 he founded the collegiate church of the Holy Trinity at Beaumont-le-Roger for canons of St. Frideswide of Oxford. He was a benefactor of St. Pierre-de-Préaux and of St. Wandrille.fter 1090 Roger became a monk at the Abbey of Préaux. He died some years later, and was buried there with his father. [Complete Peerage VII:522-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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