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Hij is geboren rond 1104 in Leicester, Leicestershire, EnglandLeicester, Leicestershire.
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{geni:job_title} Comte, de Leicester, de Winchester, Vice-Roi, d'Angleterre, Sieur, de Pacy-sur-Eure
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{geni:job_title} Comte, de Meulan, de Beaumont, de Worcester, de Winchester

Hij is overleden op 5 april 1168 in Leicester Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
Hij is begraven rond april 1168 in Leicester Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
Een kind van Robert de Beaumont en Isabella Elizabeth de Vermandois
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Gezin van Robert "le Bossu" (Robert "le Bossu") "Robert the Hunchback" de Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester

Hij had een relatie met Amice (uta) (Waiet) Emma de Breteuil.

Kind(eren):

Marguerite de Beaumont ± 1136-± 1185
Robert "Blanchmains" de Beaumont ± 1135-1190

Notities over Robert "le Bossu" (Robert "le Bossu") "Robert the Hunchback" de Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester

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Source #1: T. Anna Leese, "Blood Royal: Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England, 1066-1399: The Normans and Plantagenets" (Heritage Books, Inc, 1996), p. 26

Source #2 - Weis, p. 58 - 2nd Earl of Leicester; knighted 1122; Justiciar of England, 1155-1168; see Complete Peerage IV 672-73 chart; V 736; VII 520, 527-30; IX 568-574 and note n 574.

Source #3: Marcellus Donald Alexander R. von Redlich, "Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, 1988 reprint of 1941 edition),
p. 125; 133-134

2rd Earl of Leicester, Steward of England and of Normandy, Justiciar.

Source #4: David Crouch, "The Reign of King Stephen: 1135 - 1154" (Harlow, England: Pearson Education Limited, 2000), p. 131.

"Count Waleran of Meulan left England in 1141 and transferred his allegiance to the Angevin side....he confided the oversight of his earldom of Worcester to his twin brother, the earl of Leicester, even though the earl was still a royalist."

Source #5: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168). The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists, in fact the only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French).

Robert was an English nobleman of French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont. There is no knowing whether they were identical or fraternal twins, but the fact that they are remarked on by contemporaries as twins indicates that they probably were in fact identical.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118 (upon which Robert inherited his father's second titles of Earl of Leicester). Their lands on either side of the Channel were committed to a group of guardians, led by their stepfather, William earl of Warenne or Surrey. They accompanied King Henry I to Normandy, to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119, when the king incited them to debate philosophy with the cardinals. Both twins were literate, and Abingdon abbey later claimed that Robert was schooled there, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy. A surviving treatise on astronomy (British Library ms Royal E xxv) carries a dedication "to Earl Robert of Leicester, that man of affairs and profound learning, most accomplished in matters of law" who can only be this Robert. On his death he left his own psalter to the abbey he founded at Leicester, which was still in its library in the late fifteenth century. The existence of this indicates that like many noblemen of his day, Robert followed the canonical hours in his chapel.

Career at the Norman Court
In 1120 Robert was declared of age and inherited most of his father's lands in England, while his twin brother took the French lands. However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Gael, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119. Robert spent a good deal of his time and resources over the next decade integrating the troublesome and independent barons of Breteuil into the greater complex of his estates. He did not join in his brother's great Norman rebellion against King Henry I in 1123-1124. He appears fitfully at the royal court despite his brother's imprisonment until 1129. Thereafter the twins were frequently to be found together at Henry I's court.

In 1135, the twins were present at King Henry's deathbed. Robert's actions in the succession period are unknown, but he clearly supported his brother's decision to join the court of the new king Stephen before Easter 1136. During the first two years of the reign Robert is found in Normandy fighting rival claimants for his honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals. From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141. Robert participated in his brother's political coup against the king's justiciar, Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury).

Civil War in England
The outbreak of civil war in England in September 1139 brought Robert into conflict with Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I and principal sponsor of the Empress Mathilda. His port of Wareham and estates in Dorset were seized by Gloucester in the first campaign of the war. In that campaign the king awarded Robert the city and castle of Hereford as a bid to establish the earl as his lieutenant in Herefordshire, which was in revolt. It is disputed by scholars whether this was an award of a second county to Earl Robert. Probably in late 1139, Earl Robert refounded his father's collegiate church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester as a major Augustinian abbey on the meadows outside the town's north gate, annexing the college's considerable endowment to the abbey.

The battle of Lincoln (2 February 1141) saw the capture and imprisonment of King Stephen. Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou. Earl Robert had been in Normandy since 1140 attempting to stem the Angevin invasion, and negotiated the terms of his brother's surrender. He quit Normandy soon after and his Norman estates were confiscated and used to reward Norman followers of the Empress. Earl Robert remained on his estates in England for the remainder of King Stephen's reign. Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester abbey till 1153. Earl Robert's principal activity between 1141 and 1149 was his private war with Ranulf II, Earl of Chester. Though details are obscure it seems clear enough that he waged a dogged war with his rival that in the end secured him control of northern Leicestershire and the strategic Chester castle of Mountsorrel. When Earl Robert of Gloucester died in 1147, Robert of Leicester led the movement among the greater earls of England to negotiate private treaties to establish peace in their areas, a process hastened by the Empress's departure to Normandy, and complete by 1149. During this time the earl also exercised supervision over his twin brother's earldom of Worcester, and in 1151 he intervened to frustrate the king's attempts to seize the city.

Earl Robert and Henry Plantagenet
The arrival in England of Duke Henry, son of the Empress Mathilda, in January 1153 was a great opportunity for Earl Robert. He was probably in negotiating with Henry in that spring and reached an agreement by which he would defect to him by May 1153, when the duke restored his Norman estates to the earl. The duke celebrated his Pentecost court at Leicester in June 1153, and he and the earl were constantly in company till the peaces settlement between the duke and the king at Winchester in November 1153. Earl Robert crossed with the duke to Normandy in January 1154 and resumed his Norman castles and honors. As part of the settlement his claim to be chief steward of England and Normandy was recognised by Henry.

Earl Robert began his career as chief justiciar of England probably as soon as King Henry II succeeded in October 1154. The office gave the earl supervision of the administration and legal process in England whether the king was present or absent in the realm. He appears in that capacity in numerous administrative acts, and had a junior colleague in the post in Richard de Lucy, another former servant of King Stephen. The earl filled the office for nearly fourteen years, and earned the respect of the emerging Angevin bureaucracy in England. His opinion was quoted by learned clerics, and his own learning was highly commended. He died on 5 April 1168, probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town. He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built. He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

Church Patronage
In addition to the abbey of St. Mary de Pré, in Leicester, the earl founded in England the Cistercian abbey of Garendon in 1133, the Fontevraldine house of Nuneaton between 1155 and 1160, the priory of Luffield, and the hospital of Brackley. He refounded the collegiate church of St Mary de Castro as a dependency of Leicester abbey around 1164, after suppressing it in 1139. Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his Norman abbey of Lyre. His principal Norman foundations were the priory of Le Désert in the forest of Breteuil and a major hospital in Breteuil itself. He was a generous benefactor of the Benedictine abbey of Lyre, the oldest monastic house in the honor of Breteuil.

Family and children
He married Amice de Gael, daughter of Raoul, senior of Gael et of Montfort. They had four children:

Hawise, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester;
Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester;
Isabel, who married with:
Simon II of St Liz, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton;
Gervase Paynel of Dudley.
Margaret, who married Ralph V de Tosny

References
thePeerage.com
"Beaumont, Robert de, Earl of Leicester", The Dictionary of National Biography, Rpt. in thePeerage.com
D. Crouch, The Beaumont Twins: the Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 1986).
D. Crouch, The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (London, 2000).
E. King, "Mountsorrel and its region in King Stephen's Reign", Huntington Library Quarterly, 44 (1980), 1-10.
Leicester Abbey, ed. J. Storey, J. Bourne and R. Buckley (Leicester, 2006).
British Library ms Royal E xxv.

Name Suffix: IV

Name Suffix: Iv, Earl Of Worcester, Count Of Meulan

Robert (called Bossu), 2nd earl of Leicester, stoutly adhering to King Henry I upon all occasions, was with that monarch at his decease in1135, and he afterwards staunchly supported the interests of his grandson, Henry II, upon whose accession to the throne his lordship was constituted Justice of England. He m. (1119) Amicia, dau. of Ralph de Waer, Earl of Norfolk, by whom he had a son, Robert, and two daus., one,the wife of Simon, Earl of Huntingdon, the other of William, Earl of Gloucester, The earl, who was a munificent benefactor to the church and founder of several religious houses, d. in 1167, having lived for fifteen years a canon regular in the abbey of Leicester, and was s. by his son, Robert. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 42, Bellomont, Earls of Leicester]
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Robert, Earl of Leicester, was the younger of the twin sons of Robertof Meulan, Henry I's chief adviser. While his brother, Waleran, was mercurial, even flashy, Robert was renowned for patience and circumspection. Very much under Waleran's shadow until the 1140's, Robert slowlybuilt up one of the largest baronies in England and a major politicalposition through alliances with other magnates and a growing network of vassals whose loyalty was secured by firm discipline. By 1154, Robert was perhaps the most powerful baron in England as well as being a political veteran whose reputation as an administrator, negotiator, andlawyer (in the words of Richard FitzNeal who knew him, 'a man of sound judgement, well educated and practised in legal affairs'). Something of an intellectual, his views on royal authority and treason were quoted by John of Salisbury in his "Policraticus" and he himself wrote on philosophy and astronomy. In 1155, Henry II harnessed both Robert'sterritorial power and his personal talents to the new regime by appointing him Justiciar, an office which he held, as the senior partner toRichard de Lucy, until his death.
Under his father's will, Robert received the family lands in England,including the earldom of Leicester, but in 1121 his marriage to Amice, heiress of Breteuil, brought him a strategically important fief in Normandy. Brought up in Henry I's court, by the early 1130s, Robert shared in the high favour bestowed on his family and their connections; he also witnessed fifteen royal charters between 1130 and 1135, a signof things to come. With the death of Henry I and the accession of Stephen, Robert shared in the heyday of Beaumont power, taking the opportunity to settle old scores with territorial rivals, such as the Tosnisin Normandy. In 1139 he helped his brother destroy Roger of Salisbury, receiving from Stephen the city and earldom of Hereford the following year. Robert's diplomatic skills were exercised in 1141 when he negotiated the division of the family lands so that he could retain his English estates as a supporter of Stephen and his brother Waleran the French lands as an adherent of the Angevins. Although remaining a closeassociate of King Stephen, Robert spent much of the rest of the reignsecuring his own position. Independent of the king, he formed treaties with Angevin magnates, such as Ranulf of Chester, in order to reduce the prospects of damage to his landed interests, especially in the Midlands. He was notorious for controlling his tenants over whom he lay the constant threat of disseisin. In 1153, he changed sides, soon becoming one of Henry FitzEmpress's chief counsellors and having his Norman estates restored.
As Justiciar, he acted as Henry's main adviser at court and his representative when the king was abroad. Although prominent in the Becket controversy, he avoided the excommunications of 1166, perhaps because the archbishop saw him as of independent mind, a possible mediator. Hisduties as Justiciar included presiding at the Exchequer; carrying outroyal writs; overseeing local royal officials; acting as a judge in hearing major pleas of the crown; paying troops; provisioning royal castles and palaces; and transporting treasure. Robert was a dominant figure in government and aristocracy, with unrivaled royal confidence andestates to match, stretching from Wales to East Anglia. Much of the later prestige attached to the Justiciarship derived from Robert's own reputation as a politician of unequalled experience; a royal servant of expertise and a baron of the highest lineage and unsurpassed wealth. Yet sometimes his dual role found him out. In c. 1167, he had obtained a special writ of exemption from demands on his lands under the Forest Laws. This caused outrage among the old Exchequer hands led by Nigel of Ely who insisted that anyone who sat at the Exchequer possessedex-officio exemption which did not require specific royal approval. It is one case of many where Earl Robert's first thought was to promote and protect his own property and interests while at the same time serving the king. FitzNeal described Robert as strong minded and diligent. Henry II recognised his quality and, again in FitzNeal's words, made him 'head not only of the Exchequer, but of the whole kingdom.'
Born to greatness, Robert acquired further greatness by doing well out of the civil war of Stephen's reign and was thus in an unrivalled position to exploit his opportunities when high office was thrust upon him. Robert has been called 'the model of the curial magnate' and his career, taken with those of his father and brother, expose how unrealistic is the historical cliché which pits kings against barons. Medieval realms only operated through intimate cooperation between ruler andthe most powerful of the ruled. Such relationships were inevitably attimes tense and could degenerate into acrimony and violent confrontation especially if, as under Stephen, the king was a poor manager of men. But such dislocation was the product of mutual dependency, not separation of interests. Robert did well out of kings and did well for kings: in him and those like him, we can see how effective medieval government operated to the desired benefit of all involved. Sectional interests as often as not united monarch and magnate as divided them. Twelfth century kings had no option or desire to base their rule on others than the natural leaders of society of whom few were more effective than Robert of Leicester who combined self-interest and loyalty to the material advantage of master and minister alike.
The earl founded the abbey of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester and other religious houses and by a charter confirmed the burgesses of Leicesterin the possession of their merchant guild and customs. His son Robertsucceeded to the earldom of Leicester and with other English barons assisted Prince Henry in his revolt against his father, the king, in 1773. For this participation, and also on a later occasion, he was imprisoned; but he enjoyed the favour of Richard I and died in Greece whilereturning from a pilgrimage in 1190. [Who's Who in Early Medieval England, Christopher Tyerman, Shepheard-Walwyn, Ltd., London, 1996; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 3, pp. 274-275, BEAUMONT]

Early Life and Education

Robert was an English nobleman of Norman-French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont. There is no knowing whether they were identical or fraternal twins, but the fact that they are remarked on by contemporaries as twins indicates that they probably were in fact identical.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118 (upon which Robert inherited his father's second titles of Earl of Leicester). Their lands on either side of the Channel were committed to a group of guardians, led by their stepfather, William earl of Warenne or Surrey. They accompanied King Henry I to Normandy, to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119, when the king incited them to debate philosophy with the cardinals. Both twins were literate, and Abingdon Abbey later claimed to have been Robert's school, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy. A surviving treatise on astronomy (British Library ms Royal E xxv) carries a dedication "to Earl Robert of Leicester, that man of affairs and profound learning, most accomplished in matters of law" who can only be this Robert. On his death he left his own psalter to the abbey he founded at Leicester, which was still in its library in the late fifteenth century. The existence of this indicates that like many noblemen of his day, Robert followed the canonical hours in his chapel.

[edit] Career at the Norman Court

In 1120 Robert was declared of age and inherited most of his father's lands in England, while his twin brother took the French lands. However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Montfort, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119. Robert spent a good deal of his time and resources over the next decade integrating the troublesome and independent barons of Breteuil into the greater complex of his estates. He did not join in his brother's great Norman rebellion against King Henry I in 1123-4. He appears fitfully at the royal court despite his brother's imprisonment until 1129. Thereafter the twins were frequently to be found together at Henry I's court.

In 1135, the twins were present at King Henry's deathbed. Robert's actions in the succession period are unknown, but he clearly supported his brother's decision to join the court of the new king Stephen before Easter 1136. During the first two years of the reign Robert is found in Normandy fighting rival claimants for his honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals. From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141. Robert participated in his brother's political coup against the king's justiciar, Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury).

[edit] Civil War in England

The outbreak of civil war in England in September 1139 brought Robert into conflict with Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I and principal sponsor of the Empress Matilda. His port of Wareham and estates in Dorset were seized by Gloucester in the first campaign of the war. In that campaign the king awarded Robert the city and castle of Hereford as a bid to establish the earl as his lieutenant in Herefordshire, which was in revolt. It is disputed by scholars whether this was an award of a second county to Earl Robert. Probably in late 1139, Earl Robert refounded his father's collegiate church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester as a major Augustinian abbey on the meadows outside the town's north gate, annexing the college's considerable endowment to the abbey.

The battle of Lincoln (2 February 1141) saw the capture and imprisonment of King Stephen. Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou. Earl Robert had been in Normandy] since 1140 attempting to stem the Angevin invasion, and negotiated the terms of his brother's surrender. He quit Normandy soon after and his Norman estates were confiscated and used to reward Norman followers of the Empress. Earl Robert remained on his estates in England for the remainder of King Stephen's reign. Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester Abbey till 1153. Earl Robert's principal activity between 1141 and 1149 was his private war with Ranulf II, Earl of Chester. Though details are obscure it seems clear enough that he waged a dogged war with his rival that in the end secured him control of northern Leicestershire and the strategic Chester castle of Mountsorrel. When Earl Robert of Gloucester died in 1147, Robert of Leicester led the movement among the greater earls of England to negotiate private treaties to establish peace in their areas, a process hastened by the Empress's departure to Normandy, and complete by 1149. During this time the earl also exercised supervision over his twin brother's earldom of Worcester, and in 1151 he intervened to frustrate the king's attempts to seize the city.

[edit] Earl Robert and Henry Plantagenet

The arrival in England of Duke Henry, son of the Empress Mathilda, in January 1153 was a great opportunity for Earl Robert. He was probably in negotiating with Henry in that spring and reached an agreement by which he would defect to him by May 1153, when the duke restored his Norman estates to the earl. The duke celebrated his Pentecost court at Leicester in June 1153, and he and the earl were constantly in company till the peaces settlement between the duke and the king at Winchester in November 1153. Earl Robert crossed with the duke to Normandy in January 1154 and resumed his Norman castles and honors. As part of the settlement his claim to be chief steward of England and Normandy was recognised by Henry.

Earl Robert began his career as chief justiciar of England probably as soon as Duke Henry succeeded as King Henry II in October 1154. The office gave the earl supervision of the administration and legal process in England whether the king was present or absent in the realm. He appears in that capacity in numerous administrative acts, and had a junior colleague in the post in Richard de Lucy, another former servant of King Stephen. The earl filled the office for nearly fourteen years, and earned the respect of the emerging Angevin bureaucracy in England. His opinion was quoted by learned clerics, and his own learning was highly commended.

He died on 5 April 1168, probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town. He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built. He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

[edit] Church Patronage

In addition to the abbey of St. Mary de Pré, in Leicester, the earl founded in England the Cistercian abbey of Garendon in 1133, the Fontevraldine priory at Nuneaton between 1155 and 1160, the priory of Luffield, and the hospital of Brackley. He refounded the collegiate church of St Mary de Castro as a dependency of Leicester abbey around 1164, after suppressing it in 1139. Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his Norman abbey of Lyre. His principal Norman foundations were the priory of Le Désert in the forest of Breteuil and a major hospital in Breteuil itself. He was a generous benefactor of the Benedictine abbey of Lyre, the oldest monastic house in the honor of Breteuil.

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Sir Robert de Beaumont, knighted in 1122, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England 1155-1168.

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester
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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168), also known as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Uneven" in French), was an English nobleman of French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois, the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death (upon which instance Robert inherited all of his father's hereditary titles, chiefly Earl of Leicester). They accompanied King Henry I among various missions, firstly to Normandy, then to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119. In 1135, the two twins were present at King Henry's deathbed; the monarch's death led to The Anarchy (under the weak rule of King Stephen), and Robert eventually captured his rival, Roger de Tosny. In June of 1139, the inseparable brothers led the actions against Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury) and Alexander (the Bishop of Lincoln); the former was killed in December of that year, while the latter survived for eight more years.

King Stephen had taken the two brothers as his personal advisors; the two brothers remained in his confidence for several decades. However, after Stephen's compromise with his cousin, Matilda (wherein Henry, Matilda's son, would succeed Stephen as king), the twins provided Henry, soon to be crowned Henry II of England, with "means for his struggle." Thereafter, the brothers were in the new monarch's confidence, as evidenced by Robert's appointment as chief justiciar and as a hereditary steward; eventually, he bought out Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk (another noble who enjoyed the confidence of the crown) and is considered the first Lord High Steward of England. Robert enjoyed a high status in Henry's court, even acting as head of the kingdom (in a vice-regal capacity) for a time. His name appeared at the top of the Constitutions of Clarendon, and he was present at the Council of Northampton.

He founded, in addition to St. Mary de Pré, the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley, and was a liberal benefactor to many other houses.

[edit]
Family and children
He married Amice de Montfort, daughter of Raoul, senior of Gael et of Montfort. They had four children:

Hawise, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester;
Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester;
Isabel, who married with:
Simon II of St Liz, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton;
Gervase Paynel of Dudley.
Margaret, who married Ralph V de Tosny
[edit]
References
thePeerage.com
"Beaumont, Robert de, Earl of Leicester", The Dictionary of National Biography, Rpt. in thePeerage.com

Preceded by:
— Lord High Steward
1154–1168 Succeeded by:
The Earl of Leicester
Preceded by:
Robert de Beaumont Earl of Leicester Succeeded by:
Robert Blanchemains

Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester
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Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Worcester (1104 – 9 April 1166, Preaux), was the son of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois, and the twin brother of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. He is also known as Waleran de Bellomonte, or William of Wigonia (Worcester).

Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Civil war
3 Family and children
4 See also
5 References
6 External link

[edit] Early life
After the death of his father he received as his share of the inheritance, the Norman estates at Meulan and Beaumont. He also held the manor of Vatteville on the left bank of the Seine. In September 1118 he remained faithful to King Henry I during the rebellion which broke out, but in 1123 he was drawn into a conspiracy with William Clito, son of Robert Curthose. He was defeated by William de Harcourt at the Battle of Bourgteronde on 26 March 1124, and fled to Brionne; on Henry's approach he withdrew to his castle at Beaumont. The King captured his castles at Brionne and Pont Audemar, the latter after a siege of seven weeks, and burnt his towns of Montfort, Brionne and Pont Audemar. Henry also deprived him of his title of Count of Meulan.

In the following year, 24 March 1125, he proceeded to the relief of his tower of Vatteville, with his three brothers-in-law, Hugh de Chateau Neuf, Hugh de Montfort and William, Lord of Breval. Very early in the morning they assaulted the entrenchments which the King had thrown up round the castle and they endeavoured to force a convoy of provisions through to the besieged. But Waleran and the two Hughs and about eighty men at arms were captured and imprisoned for five years, first at Rouen and then in England. The King had now destroyed all Waleran's castles except Beaumont, which he ordered him to deliver up, and Waleran, being a prisoner and realising that discretion was the better part of valour, and fearing to expose himself to greater peril if he refused, he sent a messenger to Morim, who had charge of his affairs, to give it up without delay. He was afterwards pardoned, but again rebelled, declaring for William of Normandy, nephew of King Henry. The Royalist forces captured his castles at Brienne and Pont Audemar. By 1135 he had regained the King's confidence, for he and his twin brother were both present at Henry's deathbed. He then took up Stephen's cause and in the spring of 1136 he went to Normandy and in the autumn of that year captured Roger de Toeni. He remained there until the following spring and then returned to England. The next year he was made Joint Lieutenant of Normandy, and soon after crossed the Channel again, in order to suppress a rising against the English government. Towaras the end of 1158 he returned to England and was then sent north to attack the Scots, driving them out of the castle of Wark. He was probably present at the Battle of the Standard at Northallerton when the Scots were completely defeated.

[edit] Civil war
By this time he had become chief adviser to the King and he defended him in his controversy with the Bishops of Salisbury and Ely at the Council of Oxford. Matters came to a crisis, a riot followed, the Bishop was seized and imprisoned. This was followed by civil war. Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester attacked Worcester in October 1139 on behalf of the Empress Maud; he destroyed a considerable portion of the city and carried off a large amount of plunder. On 13 November Waleran attacked and defeated John FitzHarold, who was serving under the Earl of Gloucester, then re-entered the city and captured many prisoners. He was commander-in-chief at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141. When he saw that the battle was lost he escaped, but the King, surrounded by a few of his knights, fought with great courage, but at last worn out by fatigue and deserted by all, he surrendered to his Cousin Robert and was taken to the Empress Maud, who imprisoned him at Bristol. Later in the year, with his brother Robert he negotiated peace with Geoffrey of Anjou.

He served under Geoffrey, Count of Anjou in the siege of Rouen in 1143/4; he afterwards captured and burnt Emandreville and the Church of St. Sever, where many of both sexes perished in the flames. The Empress Maud captured his castle at Worcester and granted it to William de Beauchamp.

In 1144 King Stephen rewarded him for his many services by creating him Earl of Worcester, and also granted him the town itself.

He went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and subsequently joined the disastrous Second Crusade in 1147. He took part in the attack on Lisbon, when the Moors were driven out of the city. On his return in 1149 he quarrelled with the King, and went so far as to offer the crown to Theobald, Stephen's brother, but this was declined. He then joined the party of the Empress Maud and held Worcester on her behalf. The King captured and burnt the town, but failed in his attempt on the castle. Two years later the King attacked again, Waleran was driven out and escaped to Normandy, where he was taken prisoner by his nephew Robert de Montfort, who confined him in the castle of Obec. He gained his release by a grant of some portion of his estate to his nephew. In 1154 he sctempted to take the castle of Montfort, but without success. The King then captured and burnt the city of Winchester which belonged to Waleran.

In 1157 we find him at Henry II's court and in May 1160 he was one of the witnesses to the treaty between Henry II and Louis VII of France; at this time he also witnessed the charter of the Abbey of Coggeshall.

[edit] Family and children
He married, firstly, Matilda de Blois, daughter of King Stephen of England and Matilda of Boulogne, Countess de Boulogne, circa March 1136. He married, secondly, Agnes de Montfort, daughter of Amaury III de Montfort, Count of Evreux, and Agnes de Garlande, in 1141.

He had children with Agnes de Montfort:

Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan.
Isabel de Beaumont (d. 10 May 1220), married twice:
ca 1161 Geoffroy, Sire of Mayenne;
ca 1170 Maurice II, Sire of Craon.
Amaury de Beaumont, senior of Gournay-sur-Marne.
Roger de Beaumont, Viscount d'Evreux.
Waleran de Beaumont, Lord of Montfort.
Etienne de Beaumont.
Hugh de Beaumont, Lord of Blinchefeld.
Marie de Beaumont, married Hugh Talbot, Baron of Cleuville, Lord of Hotot-sur-Mer.
Amice de Beaumont, married Henry, Baron de Ferrieres.
Duda de Beaumont, married William de Molines.

[edit] See also
The Anarchy

[edit] References
Cokayne, G.E.; Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed. 13 volumes in 14. 1910-1959. Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000.
Edward T. Beaumont, J.P. The Beaumonts in History. A.D. 850-1850. Oxfor

[edit] External link
Detailed Biography at thePeerage.com
Peerage of England
Preceded by:
New Creation Earl of Worcester
1138–1166 Succeeded by:
Extinct

1179: Crusader
Steward of England and Normandy

[Weis 58] knighted 1122; Justiciar of England, 1155-1168

Twin brother of Robert de Beaumont

Viceroy of England

[2057] WSHNGT.ASC file (Geo Washington Ahnentafel) # 545332

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Husband Sir, Robert Or Bossu II De Beaumont-[122841]

AKA: Robert De Belloment
Born: 1104 at: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: 5 Apr 1168 at: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): 18 Nov 1993 at: Jordan River Utah

Father: Sir, Robert De Beaumont De Meulan, Earl Of Leicester-[116240] (Abt 1049-1118)
Mother: Isabella Or Elizabeth Capet Or De Crépi, Countess of Leicester-[116237] (1081-1130)

SealP (LDS): 30 Mar 1993 Temple: Salt Lake Utah

Married: After Nov 1120 Place: Of, Leicestershire, England

Events 1. Occupation

Earl Of Leicester

Wife Amica De Gael-[122842]

AKA: Amica D' Uta (Gael Waiet) De Montfort
Born: 1100-1108 at: Of, Norfolk, England
Christened: at:
Died: 1168 at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 2 May 2001 (18) #23 at:

Father: Ralph III De Gael-[124701] (Abt 1074- )
Mother: Living

Events 1. Notes

Children 1 F Adela De Belvoir-[143341]

Born: Abt 1119 at: Of, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 3 May 2001 (25) #1 at:

2 F Isabel De Beaumont, Of Leicester-[139985]

Born: Abt 1121 at: Of, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: After May 1188 at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 3 May 2001 (25) #34 at:
SealP (LDS): 10 Mar 1995 at: Salt Lake Utah

Spouse: Simon II De St. Liz, Earl Of Huntington-[117086] (After 1103-1153) Marr: Abt 1137, Of, Leicestershire, England Spouse: Gervase Paynell-[122854] (Abt 1126- ) Marr: Abt 1154, Of, Huntingdonshire, England
3 M Sir, Robert III De Beaumont, Earl Of Leicester-[157617]

Born: 1121-1130 at: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: 31 Aug 1190 at: Durazzo, Greece
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 3 May 2001 (25) #9 at:

Spouse: Petronilla De Grentmesnil-[157618] (1134-1212) Marr: Abt 1155, Of, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 3 May 2001 (25) #9 at:
4 F Hawise De Paganel De Beaumont, Of Leicester-[125840]

AKA: Hawise De Paganel De Beaumont
Born: 1124 at: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: 24 Apr 1197 at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 3 May 2001 (25) #6 at:

Spouse: Roger III De Berkeley-[124454] (Abt 1094-1170) Marr: Of, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England Spouse: De Somery-[122972] (Abt 1113- ) Marr: Of, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Spouse: William Fitz Robert, Earl Of Gloucester-[170361] (Abt 1108-1183) Marr: 1150, Of, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Bapt.(LDS): 3 Sep 1992 at: JRIVE - Jordan River Utah
5 F Marguerite De Beaumont-[139984]

Born: 1125 at: Of, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: After 1185 at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): 20 Mar 1937 at:
SealP (LDS): Bef 1970 at:

Spouse: Ralph III De Toeni, Sn De Conches-[123388] (Abt 1088-1126) Marr: After 1155, Of, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
6 M Gervaise De Paganel, Baron Dudley-[125340]

Born: 1138 at: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: 1189 at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 3 May 2001 (25) #28 at:

Spouse: Felicia Dudley-[125081] (Abt 1141- ) Marr: Leicester, Leicestershire, England Spouse: Isabella De Leinster, Countess De Leinster-[125143] (Abt 1141- ) Marr: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
7 M William De Beaumont-[139987]

Born: Abt 1142 at: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): 3 May 1995 at: Bountiful Utah
SealP (LDS): 20 Sep 1995 at: Bountiful Utah

Spouse: Mary-[139988] (Abt 1191- ) Marr: 1215, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
8 M John De Beaumont-[139989]

Born: Abt 1144 at: Of, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 3 May 2001 (25) #40 at:
SealP (LDS): 16 Apr 1992 at: Las Vegas Nevada

9 M Geoffrey De Beaumont-[139990]

Born: Abt 1146 at: Of, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): Submitted 3 May 2001 (25) #28 at:
SealP (LDS): 16 Apr 1992 at: Las Vegas Nevada

Spouse: Felice Paganel-[139991] (Abt 1149- ) Marr: Of, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
10 M Henry De Beaumont-[139992]

Born: Abt 1148 at: Of, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Christened: at:
Died: at:
Buried: at:
Bapt.(LDS): 14 Mar 1995 at: Oakland California
SealP (LDS): 16 Apr 1992 at: Las Vegas Nevada

[BIGOD-Mel Morris,10Gen Anc.FTW]

OCCU 2nd Earl of Leicester...
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BOOTH.TAF (Compuserve), 142956;
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possbily Roger - COMYN4.TAF (Compuserve Roots), p. 3; E. Leicester, Justiciar
of England, twin of Waleran, C. Meulan - BOOTH.TAF (Compuserve), 142956

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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155-1168.

The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French).

Robert was an English nobleman of Norman-French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont. There is no knowing whether they were identical or fraternal twins, but the fact that they are remarked on by contemporaries as twins indicates that they probably were in fact identical.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118 (upon which Robert inherited his father's second titles of Earl of Leicester). Their lands on either side of the Channel were committed to a group of guardians, led by their stepfather, William earl of Warenne or Surrey. They accompanied King Henry I to Normandy, to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119, when the king incited them to debate philosophy with the cardinals. Both twins were literate, and Abingdon Abbey later claimed to have been Robert's school, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy. A surviving treatise on astronomy (British Library ms Royal E xxv) carries a dedication "to Earl Robert of Leicester, that man of affairs and profound learning, most accomplished in matters of law" who can only be this Robert. On his death he left his own psalter to the abbey he founded at Leicester, which was still in its library in the late fifteenth century. The existence of this indicates that like many noblemen of his day, Robert followed the canonical hours in his chapel.

In 1120 Robert was declared of age and inherited most of his father's lands in England, while his twin brother took the French lands. However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Montfort, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119. Robert spent a good deal of his time and resources over the next decade integrating the troublesome and independent barons of Breteuil into the greater complex of his estates. He did not join in his brother's great Norman rebellion against King Henry I in 1123-4. He appears fitfully at the royal court despite his brother's imprisonment until 1129. Thereafter the twins were frequently to be found together at Henry I's court.

Robert held lands throughout the country. In the 1120s and 1130s he tried to rationalise his estates in Leicestershire. Leicestershire estates of the See of Lincoln and the Earl of Chester were seized by force. This enhanced the integrity of Robert's block of estates in the central midlands, bounded by Nuneaton, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough.

In 1135, the twins were present at King Henry's deathbed. Robert's actions in the succession period are unknown, but he clearly supported his brother's decision to join the court of the new king Stephen before Easter 1136. During the first two years of the reign Robert is found in Normandy fighting rival claimants for his honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals. From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141. Robert participated in his brother's political coup against the king's justiciar, Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury).

The outbreak of civil war in England in September 1139 brought Robert into conflict with Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I and principal sponsor of the Empress Matilda. His port of Wareham and estates in Dorset were seized by Gloucester in the first campaign of the war. In that campaign the king awarded Robert the city and castle of Hereford as a bid to establish the earl as his lieutenant in Herefordshire, which was in revolt. It is disputed by scholars whether this was an award of a second county to Earl Robert. Probably in late 1139, Earl Robert refounded his father's collegiate church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester as a major Augustinian abbey on the meadows outside the town's north gate, annexing the college's considerable endowment to the abbey.

The battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 saw the capture and imprisonment of King Stephen. Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou. Earl Robert had been in Normandy] since 1140 attempting to stem the Angevin invasion, and negotiated the terms of his brother's surrender. He quit Normandy soon after and his Norman estates were confiscated and used to reward Norman followers of the Empress. Earl Robert remained on his estates in England for the remainder of King Stephen's reign. Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester Abbey till 1153. Earl Robert's principal activity between 1141 and 1149 was his private war with Ranulf II, Earl of Chester. Though details are obscure it seems clear enough that he waged a dogged war with his rival that in the end secured him control of northern Leicestershire and the strategic Chester castle of Mountsorrel. When Earl Robert of Gloucester died in 1147, Robert of Leicester led the movement among the greater earls of England to negotiate private treaties to establish peace in their areas, a process hastened by the Empress's departure to Normandy, and complete by 1149. During this time the earl also exercised supervision over his twin brother's earldom of Worcester, and in 1151 he intervened to frustrate the king's attempts to seize the city.

The arrival in England of Duke Henry, son of the Empress Mathilda, in January 1153 was a great opportunity for Earl Robert. He was probably in negotiation with Henry in that spring and reached an agreement by which he would defect to him by May 1153, when the duke restored his Norman estates to the earl. The duke celebrated his Pentecost court at Leicester in June 1153, and he and the earl were constantly in company till the peace settlement between the duke and the king at Winchester in November 1153. Earl Robert crossed with the duke to Normandy in January 1154 and resumed his Norman castles and honors. As part of the settlement his claim to be chief steward of England and Normandy was recognised by Henry.

Earl Robert began his career as chief justiciar of England probably as soon as Duke Henry succeeded as King Henry II in October 1154.[1] The office gave the earl supervision of the administration and legal process in England whether the king was present or absent in the realm. He appears in that capacity in numerous administrative acts, and had a junior colleague in the post in Richard de Lucy, another former servant of King Stephen. The earl filled the office for nearly fourteen years until his death,[1] and earned the respect of the emerging Angevin bureaucracy in England. His opinion was quoted by learned clerics, and his own learning was highly commended.

He died on 5 April 1168,[1] probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town. He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built. He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

In addition to the abbey of St. Mary de Pré, in Leicester, the earl founded in England the Cistercian abbey of Garendon in 1133, the Fontevraldine priory at Nuneaton between 1155 and 1160, the priory of Luffield, and the hospital of Brackley. He refounded the collegiate church of St Mary de Castro as a dependency of Leicester abbey around 1164, after suppressing it in 1139. Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his abbey of Lyre, in Normandy. His principal Norman foundations were the priory of Le Désert in the forest of Breteuil and a major hospital in Breteuil itself. He was a generous benefactor of the Benedictine abbey of Lyre, the oldest monastic house in the honor of Breteuil
] Notes
^ a b c Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 69

References
D. Crouch, The Beaumont Twins: the Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 1986).
D. Crouch, The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (London, 2000).
E. King, "Mountsorrel and its region in King Stephen's Reign", Huntington Library Quarterly, 44 (1980), 1-10.
Leicester Abbey, ed. J. Storey, J. Bourne and R. Buckley (Leicester, 2006).
Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
British Library ms Royal E xxv.

(Information from Wickipedia, online encyclopedia)

. By this marriage he acquired a large part of the FitzOsbern inheritance in Normandy and England. He died 5 April 1168, and was probably buried in St. Mary de Pré. Amice survived him, and is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton. [Complete Peerage VII:527-30, XIV:429, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

EARLDOM OF WORCESTER (I) 1138 to 1154? or 1161?
WALERAN, 1st son and heir of ROBERT (DE BEAUMONT), COUNT OF MEULAN and 1st EARL OF LEICESTER, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugh DE CREPI, styled "LEGRAND" (younger son of HENRY I, KING OF FRANCE), was born in 1104, with his twin brother Robert, afterwards 2nd Earl of Leicester. When the twins were only 3 or 4 years old, their father obtained the King's confirmation of his plan to divide his vast estates in England and Normandy between them after his death. He died 5 June 1118 and the two boys were brought up at Court by Henry I out of gratitude to their father. Waleran inherited the comti of Meulan in the French Vexin, with the castle and town of Meulan on the Seine. In accordance with the settlement, he received the Norman baronies, with the castles of Pontaudemer, Brionne and Beaumont aligned along the valley of the Risle, and the castle of Vatteville on the Seine, as well as the lands in the counties of Dorset and Gloucester which had been held by his grandfather, Roger de Beaumont. He remained faithful to Henry I in the rebellion which broke out in September 1118. In 1119, at the King's palace in Rouen, Waleran attested, as Count of Meulan, a charter issued by his brother, as Earl of Leicester, in favour of St. Nicaise de Meulan. In November 1119 they were with the King when he met Pope Calixtus at Gisors; but in 1123 Waleran was drawn into a conspiracy on behalf of William Clito, the son of Robert Curthose. The King took up arms in October, and captured the castles of Montfort and Pontaudemer before going into winter quarters. In March following Henry besieged the castle of Vatteville. Waleran succeeded in getting supplies through to the defenders, but on his way back to Beaumont he was intercepted by a royal force at Bourgtéroude on 26 March 1124. He charged at the head of 40 men-at-arms, but his horse was riddled with arrows and he was captured. He was imprisoned successively at Rouen, Bridgnorth and Wallingford till 1129, when the King set him free and gave him back all his lands and castles, except the castle of Pontaudemer. During the remainder of the reign Waleran was usually with the King in England or in Normandy, although in May 1131 he was in his own town of Meulan. He was with Henry when the King died, 1 December 1135, at the castle of Lions. Stephen hastened to secure his support. He gave Waleran the castle of Montfort-sur-Risle and betrothed his little two-year old daughter to the Count, to whom he also gave the City of Worcester. Waleran was at Westminster with the King at Easter 1136, after which he returned to Normandy and joined his brother Robert in fighting their hereditary enemy, Roger de Toeny, whom he eventually captured on 3 October near Vaudreuil. After a visit to England he returned to Normandy with Stephen in March 1137, but went back to England with the King before Christmas. Early in 1138 he drove the King of Scots from the siege of Wark Castle. In May he returned to Normandy, where he again fought against Roger de Toeny, who had been released by Stephen; and the Angevins having invaded Normandy in June, he marched against them in July and they retreated without fighting. It was probably in the latter part of 1138 that he was created EARL OF WORCESTER, perhaps as a reward for his exertions in Normandy. He was again in the Duchy before the end of the year, but returned to England before the summer and became the leader of the party opposed to the Chief Justiciar, the great Bishop Roger of Salisbury; and in June 1139 Waleran and his brother Robert took a leading part in the arrest of Roger and his kinsmen. In the autumn, when the Empress Maud landed in England, he accompanied Stephen to Arundel; and when the King allowed his rival to join the Earl of Gloucester at Bristol, he chose Waleran, with his own brother the Legate, to escort her. In November 1139, Waleran's city of Worcester having been burnt by Gloucester's troops, the Count marched to Worcester, which he reached on 30 November; and hearing that John, son of Harold of Sudeley, had gone over to the Empress, he made a raid on Sudeley. At the battle of Lincoln, 2 February 1140/1, he was one of the Commanders of the royal army who fled when the front was broken by the opening charge, leaving the King to be captured. However, he was one of the 3 Earls who remained faithful to Stephen during his captivity, and he joined the Queen when she recovered London in June; but before the end of 1141 he abandoned Stephen and came to terms with Geoffrey Plantagenet. He seems to have returned to England in the winter of 1141/42, but soon went back to Normandy and remained there. Early in 1144 he went to the aid of Geoffrey, who had taken the city of Rouen but had failed to take the tower. He acted as one of Geoffrey's Justiciars and attested his charters at Rouen. It was probably in the same year that he went on Pilgrimage to St. James of Compostela. In 1146 he took the cross on Palm Sunday with the King of France, his half-brother the Earl of Surrey and many others. The Crusaders set forth in June 1147 and Waleran seems to have accompinied the King of France. There is no record of his deeds in the Crusade, but on his way home in 1149 his ship was caught in a storm and wrecked off the south coast of France. However, the Count and his companions gained the shore by clinging to a couple of planks and some pieces of wreckage. Early in 1150 Geoffrey Plantagenet resigned the Duchy of Normandy to his son Henry; and Waleran acted as one of the young Duke's Justiciars. In 1150, 1151 and/or 1152 Stephen made futile attempts to take Worcester Castle. In 1152 Waleran's maternal uncle the Count of Vermandois died, leaving a son and daughter, who became his wards. In 1153 he was at Meulan; but in that year he was seized at a conference by his nephew, Robert de Montfort, who imprisoned him at Orbec; and he was compelled to surrender the castle of Montfort-sur-Risle to regain his freedom. Next year he besieged Montfort, but was put to flight by Robert. No evidence has been found that he returned to England after the accession of Henry II; or that he enjoyed the Earldom of Worcester under that monarch; and it seems likely that the King either refused to recognize the existence of that Earldom, a creation of King Stephen, or simply expropriated it. However, Waleran evidently remained on good terms with Henry, for he attested royal charters in Normandy. In 1160 he was one of the witnesses to the Treaty between Henry II and Louis VII concerning the marriage of their children; and when Henry's action in having the marriage celebrated prematurely led to a breach with the King of France, Waleran is said to have sided with Louis. In 1161 Henry seized the castles of the Count of Meulan and his other barons in Normandy, and if he had not already seized the Earldom of Worcester, he probably took this opportunity to do, so; for on 21 July 1162 Waleran granted a charter in favour of the Holy Trinity of Beaumont, and the legend on the counterseal is "Sigillum Galeranni Comitis Bellomontis," instead of "Wigornensis." Probably the breach between Henry and Waleran was only temporary. In 1166, when his end was approaching, he became a monk at Préaux. He founded the abbey of Bordesley in 1140 or 1141, and was a benefactor to the cathedral church of Worcester, the abbey of St. Peter at Gloucester and the priory of Leominster. In Normandy he founded the abbey of le Valasse about 1150, in fulfilment of a vow which he made on the occasion of his shipwreck; in 1135 the hospital of St. Giles at Pontaudemer; and in 1154 or 1155 a chapel in honour of the Virgin Mary before the gate of his castle at Vatteville. He was a benefactor to the abbeys of Jumiéges, le Bec, Préaux and Lire, to the priories of Corneville and Ecajeul, and to the collegiate church of Beaumont; and confirmed grants to the abbey of St. Wandrille. In France about 1144 he founded the chapel of St. James at Meulan, and he was a benefactor to the abbey of Gournay-sur-Marne and the priory of St. Nicaise of Meulan; in Chartres to the abbey of St. Pére and the priory of St. Pierre de Jouziers; and in Perche to the abbey of Tiron.
He married, 1stly, at Easter 1136, Maud, daughter of STEPHEN, KING OF ENGLAND, by Maud, suo jure COUNTESS OF BOULOGNE, elder daughter and coheir of EUSTACE, COUNT OF BOULOGNE. She, who was then only 2 years of age, died s.p. in childhood, probably in or before 1141, and was buried in the priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, on the south side of the altar. He married, 2ndly, probably in 1141, Agnes, daughter of AMAURI, COUNT OF EVREUX, by his 2nd wife, Agnes, niece of Stephen DE GARLANDE. As her marriage-portion she was given by her brother, Count Simon, the barony of Cournay-sur-Marne, in France, and the Haie de Lintot, near Lillebonne, in Normandy. She joined her husband in founding the abbey of le Valasse and in gifts to the abbey of Gournay. Waleran died 9 or 10 April 1166 at Préaux and was buried there. His widow died 15 December 1181. [Complete Peerage XII/2:829-37, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

On Leicester, Earldom of [Burke's Peerage, p. 1671]:

Robert de Beaumont, a companion in arms of William I (The Conqueror)at Hastings was granted after the Conquest much land in the Midlandsof England, but most of it was in Warwickshire rather thanLeicestershire. Indeed his younger brother became Earl of Warwick.Robert also held territory in Normandy and is usually referred to asCount of Meulan. He was a leading political figure in the reigns ofWilliam II and Henry I and on the death of one Ives de Grandmesnil inthe First Crusade, the funds for campaigning in which Ives had raisedfrom Robert on the security of his estates, [Robert] came into fullpossession of them, including a sizeable part of Leicester. The restof the town was granted him by Henry I and it is possible that hebecame Earl of Leicester. His son, another Robert, certainly calledhimself Earl of Leicester.

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[Descent from Battle of Hastings, Kenneth J. Hart] Earl of Leicester
and Judicar of England.
[AlanBWilson] see his list of refs. under: de BEAUMONT, Roger born c
1022 of Pontaudemer, Normandy.

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Robert de Bellomont, second Earl of Leicester, adhering to King Henry I upon all occasions, was with that monarch at his decease in 1135 and he afterwards as staunchly supported the interests of his grandson, Henry II, upon whose accession to the throne he was constituted Justice of England. He married Godehilde, daughter of Raoul de Toeni II, who bore him no children, and from whom he was separated by 1090. When between fifty and sixty years of age, he married Lady Elizabeth according to Crispin and Macary, and she, being young, was won over by WIlliam de Warren II, Earl of Warren and Surrey, so that she finally deserted him. Another source, Wurts, has him marrying Amicia Waer (Ware), daughter of Ralph de Waer, Earl of Norfolk, by whom he had a son and two daughters.

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{geni:occupation} 2nd Earl of Leicester, Chief Justiciar of England In office October 1155 – April 5, 1168, Comte de Meulan, de Beaumont, de Worcester, de Winchester, Knight

{geni:about_me} Robert II de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester was born in 1104 at Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He was the son of Robert I de Beaumont-le-Roger, 1st Earl of Leicester and Isabel de Vermandois. 2nd Earl of Leicester at England between 5 June 1118 and 1168.2,3 Robert II de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester married Amice de Montfort, daughter of seigneur de Montfort Ralph de Gaël, after 25 November 1120 at Brittany, France.4 Robert II de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester was knighted in 1122. The Charter to Salisbury, by King Henry I. In attendance 5 Earls: Chester, Gloucester, Surry, Leicester, and Warwick. On 8 September 1131 at Northampton, England.5 He was one of the 5 Earls who witnessed the Charter to Salisbury granted at the Northampton Council of Henry I on 8 September 1131 at Northampton, England.5 He was a staunch adherant of Henry I before 1135. He witnessed the death of Henri I "Beauclerc", roi d' Angleterre on 1 December 1135 at Castle of Lihun, Rouen, Normandy.6,7 Robert II de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester was appointed Justiciar of England on the accession of Henry II to the throne in 1155.8 Justiciar of England between 1155 and 1168.8 He died in 1168 at England at age 64 years.

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Robert (Earl of Leicester) Robert de Beaumont Leicester (de Beaumont(II)) (1104 - 1168)

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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155-1168.

The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French).

Early Life and Education

Robert was an English nobleman of Norman-French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont. There is no knowing whether they were identical or fraternal twins, but the fact that they are remarked on by contemporaries as twins indicates that they probably were in fact identical.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118 (upon which Robert inherited his father's second titles of Earl of Leicester). Their lands on either side of the Channel were committed to a group of guardians, led by their stepfather, William earl of Warenne or Surrey. They accompanied King Henry I to Normandy, to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119, when the king incited them to debate philosophy with the cardinals. Both twins were literate, and Abingdon Abbey later claimed to have been Robert's school, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy. A surviving treatise on astronomy (British Library ms Royal E xxv) carries a dedication "to Earl Robert of Leicester, that man of affairs and profound learning, most accomplished in matters of law" who can only be this Robert. On his death he left his own psalter to the abbey he founded at Leicester, which was still in its library in the late fifteenth century. The existence of this indicates that like many noblemen of his day, Robert followed the canonical hours in his chapel.

Career at the Norman Court

In 1120 Robert was declared of age and inherited most of his father's lands in England, while his twin brother took the French lands. However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Montfort, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119. Robert spent a good deal of his time and resources over the next decade integrating the troublesome and independent barons of Breteuil into the greater complex of his estates. He did not join in his brother's great Norman rebellion against King Henry I in 1123-4. He appears fitfully at the royal court despite his brother's imprisonment until 1129. Thereafter the twins were frequently to be found together at Henry I's court.

Robert held lands throughout the country. In the 1120s and 1130s he tried to rationalise his estates in Leicestershire. Leicestershire estates of the See of Lincoln and the Earl of Chester were seized by force. This enhanced the integrity of Robert's block of estates in the central midlands, bounded by Nuneaton, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough.

In 1135, the twins were present at King Henry's deathbed. Robert's actions in the succession period are unknown, but he clearly supported his brother's decision to join the court of the new king Stephen before Easter 1136. During the first two years of the reign Robert is found in Normandy fighting rival claimants for his honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals. From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141. Robert participated in his brother's political coup against the king's justiciar, Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury).

Civil War in England

The outbreak of civil war in England in September 1139 brought Robert into conflict with Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I and principal sponsor of the Empress Matilda. His port of Wareham and estates in Dorset were seized by Gloucester in the first campaign of the war. In that campaign the king awarded Robert the city and castle of Hereford as a bid to establish the earl as his lieutenant in Herefordshire, which was in revolt. It is disputed by scholars whether this was an award of a second county to Earl Robert. Probably in late 1139, Earl Robert refounded his father's collegiate church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester as a major Augustinian abbey on the meadows outside the town's north gate, annexing the college's considerable endowment to the abbey.

The battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 saw the capture and imprisonment of King Stephen. Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou. Earl Robert had been in Normandy] since 1140 attempting to stem the Angevin invasion, and negotiated the terms of his brother's surrender. He quit Normandy soon after and his Norman estates were confiscated and used to reward Norman followers of the Empress. Earl Robert remained on his estates in England for the remainder of King Stephen's reign. Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester Abbey till 1153. Earl Robert's principal activity between 1141 and 1149 was his private war with Ranulf II, Earl of Chester. Though details are obscure it seems clear enough that he waged a dogged war with his rival that in the end secured him control of northern Leicestershire and the strategic Chester castle of Mountsorrel. When Earl Robert of Gloucester died in 1147, Robert of Leicester led the movement among the greater earls of England to negotiate private treaties to establish peace in their areas, a process hastened by the Empress's departure to Normandy, and complete by 1149. During this time the earl also exercised supervision over his twin brother's earldom of Worcester, and in 1151 he intervened to frustrate the king's attempts to seize the city.

Earl Robert and Henry Plantagenet

The arrival in England of Duke Henry, son of the Empress Mathilda, in January 1153 was a great opportunity for Earl Robert. He was probably in negotiation with Henry in that spring and reached an agreement by which he would defect to him by May 1153, when the duke restored his Norman estates to the earl. The duke celebrated his Pentecost court at Leicester in June 1153, and he and the earl were constantly in company till the peace settlement between the duke and the king at Winchester in November 1153. Earl Robert crossed with the duke to Normandy in January 1154 and resumed his Norman castles and honors. As part of the settlement his claim to be chief steward of England and Normandy was recognised by Henry.

Earl Robert began his career as chief justiciar of England probably as soon as Duke Henry succeeded as King Henry II in October 1154.[1] The office gave the earl supervision of the administration and legal process in England whether the king was present or absent in the realm. He appears in that capacity in numerous administrative acts, and had a junior colleague in the post in Richard de Luci, another former servant of King Stephen. The earl filled the office for nearly fourteen years until his death,[1] and earned the respect of the emerging Angevin bureaucracy in England. His opinion was quoted by learned clerics, and his own learning was highly commended.

He died on 5 April 1168,[1] probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town. He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built. He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

Church Patronage

In addition to the abbey of St. Mary de Pré, in Leicester, the earl founded in England the Cistercian abbey of Garendon in 1133, the Fontevraldine priory at Nuneaton between 1155 and 1160, the priory of Luffield, and the hospital of Brackley. He refounded the collegiate church of St Mary de Castro as a dependency of Leicester abbey around 1164, after suppressing it in 1139. Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his abbey of Lyre, in Normandy. His principal Norman foundations were the priory of Le Désert in the forest of Breteuil and a major hospital in Breteuil itself. He was a generous benefactor of the Benedictine abbey of Lyre, the oldest monastic house in the honor of Breteuil.

Family and children

He married after 1120 Amice de Montfort, daughter of Ralph, senior of Gael and Montfort. They had four children:

1. Hawise de Beaumont, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester;

2. Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester;

3. Isabel, who married:

1. Simon II of St Liz, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton;

2. Gervase Paynel of Dudley.

4. Margaret, who married Ralph V de Toeni

Literary references

He is a minor character in The Holy Thief, and Brother Cadfael's Penance, of the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters.

Notes

1. ^ a b c Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 69

References

* D. Crouch, The Beaumont Twins: the Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 1986).

* D. Crouch, The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (London, 2000).

* E. King, "Mountsorrel and its region in King Stephen's Reign", Huntington Library Quarterly, 44 (1980), 1-10.

* Leicester Abbey, ed. J. Storey, J. Bourne and R. Buckley (Leicester, 2006).

* Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

* British Library ms Royal E xxv.

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WALERAN de Beaumont, son of ROBERT de Beaumont-le-Roger Comte de Meulan, Earl of Leicester & his wife Elisabeth de Vermandois [Capet] (1104-Préaux 9/10 Apr 1166, bur Préaux, monastery of Saint-Pierre). His parentage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis, who specifies that he was the twin of his brother Robert[2193]. He succeeded his father as Comte de Meulan, and to his fiefs in Normandy. He and his twin brother were brought up at the court of Henry I King of England[2194]. He rebelled against King Henry, with his brothers-in-law Hugues de Montfort, Hugues de Châteauneuf and Guillaume Louvel[2195], but was captured at the siege of Vatteville 26 Mar 1124. The king confiscated his lands and held him in prison for five years, successively at Rouen, Bridgenorth and Wallingford, until 1129. After the accession of King Stephen in 1135, Waléran supported the king who created him Earl of Worcester in 1138. However, he fled at the battle of Lincoln 2 Feb 1141 and came to an agreement with Geoffroy Comte d'Anjou who gave him the castle of Montfort-sur-Risle. "Gualeran comes Mellensis" confirmed his foundation of a chapel "at Watteville before the gates of his castle" by charter dated [1154/55], witnessed by his sons Robert and Gualeran and his wife Agnes[2196]. Robert of Torigny records that "Gualerannus comes Mellenti" became "monachus Pratelli" in 1166[2197].

Betrothed to (Easter 1136) MATHILDE de Blois, daughter of STEPHEN King of England & his wife Mathilde Ctss de Boulogne ([1133/34]-before 1141, bur Priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate Without, London). Daughter of King Stephen, Orderic Vitalis records her betrothal when she was "two years old" but does not name her[2198]. The Chronicon Valassense names "comes Mellenti Gualerannus" and "uxore sua regis Stephani familia"[2199]. William of Newburgh records her burial, together with that of her brother Baudouin, as "children of King Stephen and Queen" and wife of "comitis de Medlint", quoting the records of Holy Trinity[2200].

m (1141) AGNES de Montfort, daughter of AMAURY [III] de Montfort Comte d'Evreux & his second wife Agnès de Garlande (-15 Dec 1181). Robert of Torigny refers to the wife of "Gualerannus comes Mellenti" as "sorore Simonis comitis Ebroicensis" but does not name her[2201]. "G comes Mellenti et A comitissa uxor mea" donated property to Notre-Dame de la Trappe by undated charter[2202]. Her brother gave her Gournay-sur-Marne as her marriage portion[2203]. "Agnes comitissa Mell." donated property "haia de Lintot" to the monastery of Montvilliers for the soul of "Almarici comitis ebroicensis patris mei…[et]…comitis Mell. Gual. domini mei…et Roberti filii mei" by undated charter[2204]. "Gualeran comes Mellensis" confirmed his foundation of a chapel "at Watteville before the gates of his castle" by charter dated [1154/55], witnessed by his sons Robert and Gualeran and his wife Agnes[2205].

Comte Waléran & his wife had nine children

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Beaumont, Robert de, Earl of Leicester 1104-1168, justiciary of England, was son of the preceding, and a twin with his brother Waleran [see Beaumont, Waleran de]. He seems, however, to have been deemed the younger, and is spoken of as postnatus in the Testa de Nevill. He is stated to have been born in 1104 (Ord. Vit. xi. 6) when his father was advanced in years, a date fatal to the story in the Abingdon Chronicle (ii. 229), that he had been at the Benedictine monastery there as a boy, regis Willelmi tempore (ie. ante 1099). At his father's death (1118) he succeeded to his English fiefs (Ord. Vit. xii. 33), being apparently considered the younger of the twins, and Henry, in gratitude for his father's services, brought him up, with his brother, in the royal household, and gave him to wife Amicia, daughter of Ralph (de Wader), earl of Norfolk, by Emma, daughter of William (Fitz-Osbern), earl of Hereford, with the fief of Bréteuil for her dower (ib.). The twins accompanied Henry to Normandy, and to his interview with Pope Calixtus at Gisors (November 1119), where they are said to have astounded the cardinals by their learning. They were also present at his death-bed, 1 Dec. 1135 (ib. xiii. 19). In the anarchy that followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Toesny (ib. xiii. 22), whom he eventually captured by his brother's assistance. In December 1137 the twins returned to England with Stephen, as his chief advisers, and Robert began preparing for his great foundation, his Norman possessions being overrun (ib. xiii. 36) in his absence (1138), till he came to terms with Roger de Toesny (ib. xiii. 38). In June 1139 he took, with his brother, the lead in seizing the bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford (ib. xiii. 40), and on the outbreak of civil war was despatched with him, by Stephen, to escort the empress to Bristol (October 1139), and is said (but this is doubtful) to have received a grant of Hereford. He secured his interests with the Angevin party (ib. xiii. 43) after Stephen's defeat (2 Feb. 1141), and then devoted himself to raising, in the outskirts of Leicester, the noble abbey of St. Mary de Pré (de Pratis) for canons regular of the Austin order. Having bestowed on it rich endowments, including those of his father's foundation, he had it consecrated in 1143 by the bishop of Lincoln, whom he had contrived to reconcile. In 1152 he was still in Stephen's confidence, and exerted his influence to save his brother (Gervase, i. 148), but on Henry landing in 1153 he supplied him freely with means for his struggle (ib. i. 152), and attending him, shortly after his coronation (December 1154) was rewarded with his lasting confidence, and with the post of chief justiciar, in which capacity (capitalis justicia) he first appears 13 Jan. 1155 (Cart. Ant. W.), and again in 1156 (Rot. Pip. 2 Hen. II). He was now in the closest attendance on the court, and on the queen joining the king in Normandy (December 1158) he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, till the king's return 25 Jan. 1163, Richard de Luci [qv.], when in England, being associated with him in the government. He was present at the famous council of Clarendon (13-28 Jan. 1164), and his name heads the list of lay signatures to the constitutions (MS. Cott. Claud. B. fo. 26), to which he is said, by his friendly influence, to have procured Becket's assent (Gervase, i. 177). As with his father, in the question of investitures he loyally upheld the claims of the crown, while maintaining to the church and churchmen devotion even greater than his father's. In the great crisis at the council of Northampton (October 1164) he strove, with the Earl of Cornwall, to reconcile the primate with the king, pleading hard with Becket when they visited him (12 Oct.) at his house. The following day they were commissioned to pronounce to him the sentence of the court; but when Leicester, as chief justiciary, commenced his address, he was at once cut short by the primate, who rejected his jurisdiction (Gervase, i. 185; Rog. Hov. i. 222, 228; Materials, ii. 393, &c.). Early the next year (1165) he was again, on the king's departure, left in charge of the kingdom, and, on the Archbishop of Cologne arriving as an envoy from the emperor, refused to greet him on the ground that he was a schismatic (R. Dic. i. 318). He appears to have accompanied Henry to Normandy in the spring of 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it till his death, which took place in 1168 (Rog. Hov. i. 269; Ann. Wav.; Chron. Mailros.). It is said, in a chronicle of St. Mary de Pré (Mon. Ang. ut infra), that he himself became a canon regular of that abbey, and resided there fifteen years, till his death, when he was buried on the south side of the choir; but it is obvious that he cannot thus have entered the abbey. This earl was known as le Bossu (to distinguish him from his successors), and also, possibly, as le Goozen (Mon. Ang. 1830, vi. 467). He founded, in addition to St. Mary de Pré, the abbey of Garendon (Ann. Wav. 233), the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley (wrongly attributed by Dugdale to his father), and was a liberal benefactor to many other houses (see Dugdale). His charter confirming to his burgesses of Leicester their merchant-gild and customs is preserved at Leicester, and printed on p. 404 of the Appendix to the eighth report on Historical MSS., and copies of his charters of wood and pasture are printed in Mr. Thompson's essay (pp. 42-84). He is also said to have remitted the gavel-pence impost, but the story, though accepted by Mr. Thompson (p. 60) and Mr. Jeaffreson (Appendix to 8th Report, ut supra, pp. 404, 406-7), is probably false.

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Monarch Henry II

Preceded by The Earl of Leicester

Born 1104

Died April 5, 1168

Brackley

Nationality Norman-French

Spouse(s) Amice de Montfort

Relations Waleran de Beaumont, twin brother

Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester & Elizabeth de Vermandois, parents

Children Hawise, Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, Isabel, Margaret

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Robert Fitzhamon (died March 1107), or Robert FitzHamon, Sieur de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy, was Lord of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales.

As a kinsman of the Conqueror and one of the few Anglo-Norman barons to remain loyal to the two successive kings William Rufus and Henry I of England, he was a prominent figure in England and Normandy.

Not much is known about his earlier life, or his precise relationship to William I of England.

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Robert Fitzhamon (died March 1107), or Robert FitzHamon, Sieur de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy, was Lord of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales.

As a kinsman of the Conqueror and one of the few Anglo-Norman barons to remain loyal to the two successive kings William Rufus and Henry I of England, he was a prominent figure in England and Normandy.

Not much is known about his earlier life, or his precise relationship to William I of England.

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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester

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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155-1168.

The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French).

Early Life and Education

Robert was an English nobleman of Norman-French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont. There is no knowing whether they were identical or fraternal twins, but the fact that they are remarked on by contemporaries as twins indicates that they probably were in fact identical.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118 (upon which Robert inherited his father's second titles of Earl of Leicester). Their lands on either side of the Channel were committed to a group of guardians, led by their stepfather, William earl of Warenne or Surrey. They accompanied King Henry I to Normandy, to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119, when the king incited them to debate philosophy with the cardinals. Both twins were literate, and Abingdon Abbey later claimed to have been Robert's school, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy. A surviving treatise on astronomy (British Library ms Royal E xxv) carries a dedication "to Earl Robert of Leicester, that man of affairs and profound learning, most accomplished in matters of law" who can only be this Robert. On his death he left his own psalter to the abbey he founded at Leicester, which was still in its library in the late fifteenth century. The existence of this indicates that like many noblemen of his day, Robert followed the canonical hours in his chapel.

[edit]Career at the Norman Court

In 1120 Robert was declared of age and inherited most of his father's lands in England, while his twin brother took the French lands. However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Montfort, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119. Robert spent a good deal of his time and resources over the next decade integrating the troublesome and independent barons of Breteuil into the greater complex of his estates. He did not join in his brother's great Norman rebellion against King Henry I in 1123-4. He appears fitfully at the royal court despite his brother's imprisonment until 1129. Thereafter the twins were frequently to be found together at Henry I's court.

Robert held lands throughout the country. In the 1120s and 1130s he tried to rationalise his estates in Leicestershire. Leicestershire estates of the See of Lincoln and the Earl of Chester were seized by force. This enhanced the integrity of Robert's block of estates in the central midlands, bounded by Nuneaton, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough.

In 1135, the twins were present at King Henry's deathbed. Robert's actions in the succession period are unknown, but he clearly supported his brother's decision to join the court of the new king Stephen before Easter 1136. During the first two years of the reign Robert is found in Normandy fighting rival claimants for his honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals. From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141. Robert participated in his brother's political coup against the king's justiciar, Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury).

[edit]Civil War in England

The outbreak of civil war in England in September 1139 brought Robert into conflict with Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I and principal sponsor of the Empress Matilda. His port of Wareham and estates in Dorset were seized by Gloucester in the first campaign of the war. In that campaign the king awarded Robert the city and castle of Hereford as a bid to establish the earl as his lieutenant in Herefordshire, which was in revolt. It is disputed by scholars whether this was an award of a second county to Earl Robert. Probably in late 1139, Earl Robert refounded his father's collegiate church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester as a major Augustinian abbey on the meadows outside the town's north gate, annexing the college's considerable endowment to the abbey.

The battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 saw the capture and imprisonment of King Stephen. Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou. Earl Robert had been in Normandy] since 1140 attempting to stem the Angevin invasion, and negotiated the terms of his brother's surrender. He quit Normandy soon after and his Norman estates were confiscated and used to reward Norman followers of the Empress. Earl Robert remained on his estates in England for the remainder of King Stephen's reign. Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester Abbey till 1153. Earl Robert's principal activity between 1141 and 1149 was his private war with Ranulf II, Earl of Chester. Though details are obscure it seems clear enough that he waged a dogged war with his rival that in the end secured him control of northern Leicestershire and the strategic Chester castle of Mountsorrel. When Earl Robert of Gloucester died in 1147, Robert of Leicester led the movement among the greater earls of England to negotiate private treaties to establish peace in their areas, a process hastened by the Empress's departure to Normandy, and complete by 1149. During this time the earl also exercised supervision over his twin brother's earldom of Worcester, and in 1151 he intervened to frustrate the king's attempts to seize the city.

[edit]Earl Robert and Henry Plantagenet

The arrival in England of Duke Henry, son of the Empress Mathilda, in January 1153 was a great opportunity for Earl Robert. He was probably in negotiation with Henry in that spring and reached an agreement by which he would defect to him by May 1153, when the duke restored his Norman estates to the earl. The duke celebrated his Pentecost court at Leicester in June 1153, and he and the earl were constantly in company till the peace settlement between the duke and the king at Winchester in November 1153. Earl Robert crossed with the duke to Normandy in January 1154 and resumed his Norman castles and honors. As part of the settlement his claim to be chief steward of England and Normandy was recognised by Henry.

Earl Robert began his career as chief justiciar of England probably as soon as Duke Henry succeeded as King Henry II in October 1154.[1] The office gave the earl supervision of the administration and legal process in England whether the king was present or absent in the realm. He appears in that capacity in numerous administrative acts, and had a junior colleague in the post in Richard de Lucy, another former servant of King Stephen. The earl filled the office for nearly fourteen years until his death,[1] and earned the respect of the emerging Angevin bureaucracy in England. His opinion was quoted by learned clerics, and his own learning was highly commended.

He died on 5 April 1168,[1] probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town. He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built. He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

[edit]Church Patronage

In addition to the abbey of St. Mary de Pré, in Leicester, the earl founded in England the Cistercian abbey of Garendon in 1133, the Fontevraldine priory at Nuneaton between 1155 and 1160, the priory of Luffield, and the hospital of Brackley. He refounded the collegiate church of St Mary de Castro as a dependency of Leicester abbey around 1164, after suppressing it in 1139. Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his abbey of Lyre, in Normandy. His principal Norman foundations were the priory of Le Désert in the forest of Breteuil and a major hospital in Breteuil itself. He was a generous benefactor of the Benedictine abbey of Lyre, the oldest monastic house in the honor of Breteuil.

Family and children

He married after 1120 Amice de Montfort, daughter of Ralph, senior of Gael or Montfort. They had four children:

Hawise, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester;

Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester;

Isabel, who married with:

Simon II of St Liz, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton;

Gervase Paynel of Dudley.

Margaret, who married Ralph V de Toeni

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Robert II de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, married Amice de Montfort, daughter of seigneur de Montfort Ralph de Gaël, after 25 November 1120 in Brittany, France.

Robert was knighted in 1122.

Robert was one of the 5 Earls who witnessed the Charter to Salisbury granted at the Northampton Council of King Henry I on 8 September 1131 in Northampton.

Robert witnessed the death of King Henri I on 1 December 1135 at Castle of Lihun, Rouen, Normandy.

He was appointed Justiciar of England on the accession of Henry II to the throne in 1155. He was Justiciar between 1155 and 1168.

Robert died in 1168 in England at the age of 64 years.

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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155-1168.

The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French).

Early Life and Education

Robert was an English nobleman of Norman-French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont. There is no knowing whether they were identical or fraternal twins, but the fact that they are remarked on by contemporaries as twins indicates that they probably were in fact identical.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118 (upon which Robert inherited his father's second titles of Earl of Leicester). Their lands on either side of the Channel were committed to a group of guardians, led by their stepfather, William earl of Warenne or Surrey. They accompanied King Henry I to Normandy, to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119, when the king incited them to debate philosophy with the cardinals. Both twins were literate, and Abingdon Abbey later claimed to have been Robert's school, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy. A surviving treatise on astronomy (British Library ms Royal E xxv) carries a dedication "to Earl Robert of Leicester, that man of affairs and profound learning, most accomplished in matters of law" who can only be this Robert. On his death he left his own psalter to the abbey he founded at Leicester, which was still in its library in the late fifteenth century. The existence of this indicates that like many noblemen of his day, Robert followed the canonical hours in his chapel.

Career at the Norman Court

In 1120 Robert was declared of age and inherited most of his father's lands in England, while his twin brother took the French lands. However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Montfort, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119. Robert spent a good deal of his time and resources over the next decade integrating the troublesome and independent barons of Breteuil into the greater complex of his estates. He did not join in his brother's great Norman rebellion against King Henry I in 1123-4. He appears fitfully at the royal court despite his brother's imprisonment until 1129. Thereafter the twins were frequently to be found together at Henry I's court.

Robert held lands throughout the country. In the 1120s and 1130s he tried to rationalise his estates in Leicestershire. Leicestershire estates of the See of Lincoln and the Earl of Chester were seized by force. This enhanced the integrity of Robert's block of estates in the central midlands, bounded by Nuneaton, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough.

In 1135, the twins were present at King Henry's deathbed. Robert's actions in the succession period are unknown, but he clearly supported his brother's decision to join the court of the new king Stephen before Easter 1136. During the first two years of the reign Robert is found in Normandy fighting rival claimants for his honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals. From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141. Robert participated in his brother's political coup against the king's justiciar, Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury).

Civil War in England

The outbreak of civil war in England in September 1139 brought Robert into conflict with Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I and principal sponsor of the Empress Matilda. His port of Wareham and estates in Dorset were seized by Gloucester in the first campaign of the war. In that campaign the king awarded Robert the city and castle of Hereford as a bid to establish the earl as his lieutenant in Herefordshire, which was in revolt. It is disputed by scholars whether this was an award of a second county to Earl Robert. Probably in late 1139, Earl Robert refounded his father's collegiate church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester as a major Augustinian abbey on the meadows outside the town's north gate, annexing the college's considerable endowment to the abbey.

The battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 saw the capture and imprisonment of King Stephen. Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou. Earl Robert had been in Normandy] since 1140 attempting to stem the Angevin invasion, and negotiated the terms of his brother's surrender. He quit Normandy soon after and his Norman estates were confiscated and used to reward Norman followers of the Empress. Earl Robert remained on his estates in England for the remainder of King Stephen's reign. Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester Abbey till 1153. Earl Robert's principal activity between 1141 and 1149 was his private war with Ranulf II, Earl of Chester. Though details are obscure it seems clear enough that he waged a dogged war with his rival that in the end secured him control of northern Leicestershire and the strategic Chester castle of Mountsorrel. When Earl Robert of Gloucester died in 1147, Robert of Leicester led the movement among the greater earls of England to negotiate private treaties to establish peace in their areas, a process hastened by the Empress's departure to Normandy, and complete by 1149. During this time the earl also exercised supervision over his twin brother's earldom of Worcester, and in 1151 he intervened to frustrate the king's attempts to seize the city.

Earl Robert and Henry Plantagenet

The arrival in England of Duke Henry, son of the Empress Mathilda, in January 1153 was a great opportunity for Earl Robert. He was probably in negotiation with Henry in that spring and reached an agreement by which he would defect to him by May 1153, when the duke restored his Norman estates to the earl. The duke celebrated his Pentecost court at Leicester in June 1153, and he and the earl were constantly in company till the peace settlement between the duke and the king at Winchester in November 1153. Earl Robert crossed with the duke to Normandy in January 1154 and resumed his Norman castles and honors. As part of the settlement his claim to be chief steward of England and Normandy was recognised by Henry.

Earl Robert began his career as chief justiciar of England probably as soon as Duke Henry succeeded as King Henry II in October 1154.[1] The office gave the earl supervision of the administration and legal process in England whether the king was present or absent in the realm. He appears in that capacity in numerous administrative acts, and had a junior colleague in the post in Richard de Luci, another former servant of King Stephen. The earl filled the office for nearly fourteen years until his death,[1] and earned the respect of the emerging Angevin bureaucracy in England. His opinion was quoted by learned clerics, and his own learning was highly commended.

He died on 5 April 1168,[1] probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town. He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built. He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

Church Patronage

In addition to the abbey of St. Mary de Pré, in Leicester, the earl founded in England the Cistercian abbey of Garendon in 1133, the Fontevraldine priory at Nuneaton between 1155 and 1160, the priory of Luffield, and the hospital of Brackley. He refounded the collegiate church of St Mary de Castro as a dependency of Leicester abbey around 1164, after suppressing it in 1139. Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his abbey of Lyre, in Normandy. His principal Norman foundations were the priory of Le Désert in the forest of Breteuil and a major hospital in Breteuil itself. He was a generous benefactor of the Benedictine abbey of Lyre, the oldest monastic house in the honor of Breteuil.

Family and children

He married after 1120 Amice de Montfort, daughter of Ralph, senior of Gael and Montfort. They had four children:

1. Hawise de Beaumont, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester;

2. Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester;

3. Isabel, who married with:

1. Simon II of St Liz, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton;

2. Gervase Paynel of Dudley.

4. Margaret, who married Ralph V de Toeni

Source: Wikipedia

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Adopted into the royal household of Henry I after his father's death

-Was Justiciar of England

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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155-1168.

The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French).

Early Life and Education

Robert was an English nobleman of Norman-French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont. There is no knowing whether they were identical or fraternal twins, but the fact that they are remarked on by contemporaries as twins indicates that they probably were in fact identical.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118 (upon which Robert inherited his father's second titles of Earl of Leicester). Their lands on either side of the Channel were committed to a group of guardians, led by their stepfather, William earl of Warenne or Surrey. They accompanied King Henry I to Normandy, to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119, when the king incited them to debate philosophy with the cardinals. Both twins were literate, and Abingdon Abbey later claimed to have been Robert's school, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy. A surviving treatise on astronomy (British Library ms Royal E xxv) carries a dedication "to Earl Robert of Leicester, that man of affairs and profound learning, most accomplished in matters of law" who can only be this Robert. On his death he left his own psalter to the abbey he founded at Leicester, which was still in its library in the late fifteenth century. The existence of this indicates that like many noblemen of his day, Robert followed the canonical hours in his chapel.

Career at the Norman Court

In 1120 Robert was declared of age and inherited most of his father's lands in England, while his twin brother took the French lands. However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Montfort, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119. Robert spent a good deal of his time and resources over the next decade integrating the troublesome and independent barons of Breteuil into the greater complex of his estates. He did not join in his brother's great Norman rebellion against King Henry I in 1123-4. He appears fitfully at the royal court despite his brother's imprisonment until 1129. Thereafter the twins were frequently to be found together at Henry I's court.

Robert held lands throughout the country. In the 1120s and 1130s he tried to rationalise his estates in Leicestershire. Leicestershire estates of the See of Lincoln and the Earl of Chester were seized by force. This enhanced the integrity of Robert's block of estates in the central midlands, bounded by Nuneaton, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough.

In 1135, the twins were present at King Henry's deathbed. Robert's actions in the succession period are unknown, but he clearly supported his brother's decision to join the court of the new king Stephen before Easter 1136. During the first two years of the reign Robert is found in Normandy fighting rival claimants for his honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals. From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141. Robert participated in his brother's political coup against the king's justiciar, Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury).

Civil War in England

The outbreak of civil war in England in September 1139 brought Robert into conflict with Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I and principal sponsor of the Empress Matilda. His port of Wareham and estates in Dorset were seized by Gloucester in the first campaign of the war. In that campaign the king awarded Robert the city and castle of Hereford as a bid to establish the earl as his lieutenant in Herefordshire, which was in revolt. It is disputed by scholars whether this was an award of a second county to Earl Robert. Probably in late 1139, Earl Robert refounded his father's collegiate church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester as a major Augustinian abbey on the meadows outside the town's north gate, annexing the college's considerable endowment to the abbey.

The battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 saw the capture and imprisonment of King Stephen. Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou. Earl Robert had been in Normandy] since 1140 attempting to stem the Angevin invasion, and negotiated the terms of his brother's surrender. He quit Normandy soon after and his Norman estates were confiscated and used to reward Norman followers of the Empress. Earl Robert remained on his estates in England for the remainder of King Stephen's reign. Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester Abbey till 1153. Earl Robert's principal activity between 1141 and 1149 was his private war with Ranulf II, Earl of Chester. Though details are obscure it seems clear enough that he waged a dogged war with his rival that in the end secured him control of northern Leicestershire and the strategic Chester castle of Mountsorrel. When Earl Robert of Gloucester died in 1147, Robert of Leicester led the movement among the greater earls of England to negotiate private treaties to establish peace in their areas, a process hastened by the Empress's departure to Normandy, and complete by 1149. During this time the earl also exercised supervision over his twin brother's earldom of Worcester, and in 1151 he intervened to frustrate the king's attempts to seize the city.

Earl Robert and Henry Plantagenet

The arrival in England of Duke Henry, son of the Empress Mathilda, in January 1153 was a great opportunity for Earl Robert. He was probably in negotiation with Henry in that spring and reached an agreement by which he would defect to him by May 1153, when the duke restored his Norman estates to the earl. The duke celebrated his Pentecost court at Leicester in June 1153, and he and the earl were constantly in company till the peace settlement between the duke and the king at Winchester in November 1153. Earl Robert crossed with the duke to Normandy in January 1154 and resumed his Norman castles and honors. As part of the settlement his claim to be chief steward of England and Normandy was recognised by Henry.

Earl Robert began his career as chief justiciar of England probably as soon as Duke Henry succeeded as King Henry II in October 1154.[1] The office gave the earl supervision of the administration and legal process in England whether the king was present or absent in the realm. He appears in that capacity in numerous administrative acts, and had a junior colleague in the post in Richard de Lucy, another former servant of King Stephen. The earl filled the office for nearly fourteen years until his death,[1] and earned the respect of the emerging Angevin bureaucracy in England. His opinion was quoted by learned clerics, and his own learning was highly commended.

He died on 5 April 1168,[1] probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town. He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built. He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

Church Patronage

In addition to the abbey of St. Mary de Pré, in Leicester, the earl founded in England the Cistercian abbey of Garendon in 1133, the Fontevraldine priory at Nuneaton between 1155 and 1160, the priory of Luffield, and the hospital of Brackley. He refounded the collegiate church of St Mary de Castro as a dependency of Leicester abbey around 1164, after suppressing it in 1139. Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his abbey of Lyre, in Normandy. His principal Norman foundations were the priory of Le Désert in the forest of Breteuil and a major hospital in Breteuil itself. He was a generous benefactor of the Benedictine abbey of Lyre, the oldest monastic house in the honor of Breteuil.

Family and children

He married after 1120 Amice de Montfort, daughter of Ralph, senior of Gael or Montfort. They had four children:

Hawise de Beaumont, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester;

Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester;

Isabel, who married with:

Simon II of St Liz, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton;

Gervase Paynel of Dudley.

Margaret, who married Ralph V de Toeni

1. Earl of Worcester and Count of Meulan. Unknown GEDCOM info: MH:N194 Unknown GEDCOM info: E76CD3E9-9172-4E83-B7E4-F0AE8636741C

ROBERT BEAUMONT (1104 - 1168)
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Earl of Leicester

de Beaumont or de Bellomont
Twin
Waleran or Maleran, Count of Meulan
Baptized or 8 nov 1921
Endowed 4 jan 1922
AFN:V9VT-17 OR V9T7-17, May have been a typing error.

Earl of Leicester, Lord Chief Justice of England.

! (1) Count of Meulan, twin of Robert, (b.1104--CPv7p527, but) born not later
that 1097--Gnsv10p115 with proof; fot as a rebel in 1123--CPv8p211; d.
1166--CPv7p520; md Agnes de Montfort (1114)-1181 Dec 15; had Robert and
Isabel--CPv12.1-APPp29
(2) Waleran de Beaumont: (d. before October 13, 1204). Earl of Warwick.
Married #1. Margery de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and his wife
Margaret, daughter of Miles of Gloucester and he married #2. ca. 1196, Alice de
Harcourt, daughter of Robert de Harcourt of Bosworth, County Leicester and his
wife Isabel Camville, daughter of Richard Camville. Alice died after September
1212. Waleran was with Henry II in 1187/8 and was present at the coronation of
King Richard I at Westminster in 1189 and carried the right hand sword at King
John's coronation in 1199. He was a benefactor to hospitals and abbeys.--Adec,
FHL 929.273,C769w

!SOURCES:
1. Nichol's Lcstrs, vol 1 pt 1 p. 98 (GS #Q942.54 H2nic)
2. Wurts' Magna Charta vol 1-2 p. 85 (GS #942 D22w)
3. Dict of Nat'l Biog vol 4 p. 66-67 (GS # Ref 920.042 D561n)
4. Plantagenet Ancestry p. 100, 117 (GS #940 D25)
5. Baker's Nrthmp vol 1 p. 563 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)
6. The Battle Abbey Roll vol 1 p. 14, 148 (GS #942 D2bb)
7. Complete Peerage vol 7 p. 520 (GS #942 D24c)
8. Adjusted for Leland J. Hendrix (22 gg son to #1) 931 S. 100 E. Orem, Utah, 18 Apr 1968
9. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists 5563 (GS #974 D2w)
10. Americans of Royal Descent p. 34, 83, 119 (GS #973 D2ba)
11. Proving Your Pedigree p. 204 (GS #929.1 B439p)
12. Royal Anc Levi Tenney (GS #929.6 T157K)

Data From Lynn Jeffrey Bernhard, 2445 W 450 South #4, Springville UT 84663-4950
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Name Suffix: [Earl of Worcest
Ancestral File Number: V9T7-17

Name Suffix: [EARL OF LEICEST
Ancestral File Number: 8HRJ-6W

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Twin
Baptized or 13 Mar 1932
Endowed or 27 Jul 1932
From Genealogical Library book "House of Adam".

Robert Le Bossu De Beaumont
Spouse:Amice De Gael Et Montfort De Waiet

obert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 - 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155-1168.

The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French).

Early Life and Education
Robert was an English nobleman of Norman-French ancestry. He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was the twin brother of Waleran de Beaumont. There is no knowing whether they were identical or fraternal twins, but the fact that they are remarked on by contemporaries as twins indicates that they probably were in fact identical.

The two brothers, Robert and Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118 (upon which Robert inherited his father's second titles of Earl of Leicester). Their lands on either side of the Channel were committed to a group of guardians, led by their stepfather, William earl of Warenne or Surrey. They accompanied King Henry I to Normandy, to meet with Pope Callixtus II in 1119, when the king incited them to debate philosophy with the cardinals. Both twins were literate, and Abingdon Abbey later claimed to have been Robert's school, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy. A surviving treatise on astronomy (British Library ms Royal E xxv) carries a dedication "to Earl Robert of Leicester, that man of affairs and profound learning, most accomplished in matters of law" who can only be this Robert. On his death he left his own psalter to the abbey he founded at Leicester, which was still in its library in the late fifteenth century. The existence of this indicates that like many noblemen of his day, Robert followed the canonical hours in his chapel.

Career at the Norman Court
In 1120 Robert was declared of age and inherited most of his father's lands in England, while his twin brother took the French lands. However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Montfort, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119. Robert spent a good deal of his time and resources over the next decade integrating the troublesome and independent barons of Breteuil into the greater complex of his estates. He did not join in his brother's great Norman rebellion against King Henry I in 1123-4. He appears fitfully at the royal court despite his brother's imprisonment until 1129. Thereafter the twins were frequently to be found together at Henry I's court.

Robert held lands throughout the country. In the 1120s and 1130s he tried to rationalise his estates in Leicestershire. Leicestershire estates of the See of Lincoln and the Earl of Chester were seized by force. This enhanced the integrity of Robert's block of estates in the central midlands, bounded by Nuneaton, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough.

In 1135, the twins were present at King Henry's deathbed. Robert's actions in the succession period are unknown, but he clearly supported his brother's decision to join the court of the new king Stephen before Easter 1136. During the first two years of the reign Robert is found in Normandy fighting rival claimants for his honor of Breteuil. Military action allowed him to add the castle of Pont St-Pierre to his Norman estates in June 1136 at the expense of one of his rivals. From the end of 1137 Robert and his brother were increasingly caught up in the politics of the court of King Stephen in England, where Waleran secured an ascendancy which lasted till the beginning of 1141. Robert participated in his brother's political coup against the king's justiciar, Roger of Salisbury (the Bishop of Salisbury).

Civil War in England
The outbreak of civil war in England in September 1139 brought Robert into conflict with Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I and principal sponsor of the Empress Matilda. His port of Wareham and estates in Dorset were seized by Gloucester in the first campaign of the war. In that campaign the king awarded Robert the city and castle of Hereford as a bid to establish the earl as his lieutenant in Herefordshire, which was in revolt. It is disputed by scholars whether this was an award of a second county to Earl Robert. Probably in late 1139, Earl Robert refounded his father's collegiate church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester as a major Augustinian abbey on the meadows outside the town's north gate, annexing the college's considerable endowment to the abbey.

The battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 saw the capture and imprisonment of King Stephen. Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou. Earl Robert had been in Normandy] since 1140 attempting to stem the Angevin invasion, and negotiated the terms of his brother's surrender. He quit Normandy soon after and his Norman estates were confiscated and used to reward Norman followers of the Empress. Earl Robert remained on his estates in England for the remainder of King Stephen's reign. Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester Abbey till 1153. Earl Robert's principal activity between 1141 and 1149 was his private war with Ranulf II, Earl of Chester. Though details are obscure it seems clear enough that he waged a dogged war with his rival that in the end secured him control of northern Leicestershire and the strategic Chester castle of Mountsorrel. When Earl Robert of Gloucester died in 1147, Robert of Leicester led the movement among the greater earls of England to negotiate private treaties to establish peace in their areas, a process hastened by the Empress's departure to Normandy, and complete by 1149. During this time the earl also exercised supervision over his twin brother's earldom of Worcester, and in 1151 he intervened to frustrate the king's attempts to seize the city.

Earl Robert and Henry Plantagenet
The arrival in England of Duke Henry, son of the Empress Mathilda, in January 1153 was a great opportunity for Earl Robert. He was probably in negotiation with Henry in that spring and reached an agreement by which he would defect to him by May 1153, when the duke restored his Norman estates to the earl. The duke celebrated his Pentecost court at Leicester in June 1153, and he and the earl were constantly in company till the peace settlement between the duke and the king at Winchester in November 1153. Earl Robert crossed with the duke to Normandy in January 1154 and resumed his Norman castles and honors. As part of the settlement his claim to be chief steward of England and Normandy was recognised by Henry.

Earl Robert began his career as chief justiciar of England probably as soon as Duke Henry succeeded as King Henry II in October 1154.[1] The office gave the earl supervision of the administration and legal process in England whether the king was present or absent in the realm. He appears in that capacity in numerous administrative acts, and had a junior colleague in the post in Richard de Luci, another former servant of King Stephen. The earl filled the office for nearly fourteen years until his death,[1] and earned the respect of the emerging Angevin bureaucracy in England. His opinion was quoted by learned clerics, and his own learning was highly commended.

He died on 5 April 1168,[1] probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town. He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built. He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

Church Patronage
In addition to the abbey of St. Mary de Pré, in Leicester, the earl founded in England the Cistercian abbey of Garendon in 1133, the Fontevraldine priory at Nuneaton between 1155 and 1160, the priory of Luffield, and the hospital of Brackley. He refounded the collegiate church of St Mary de Castro as a dependency of Leicester abbey around 1164, after suppressing it in 1139. Around 1139 he refounded the collegiate church of Wareham as a priory of his abbey of Lyre, in Normandy. His principal Norman foundations were the priory of Le Désert in the forest of Breteuil and a major hospital in Breteuil itself. He was a generous benefactor of the Benedictine abbey of Lyre, the oldest monastic house in the honor of Breteuil.

Family and children
He married after 1120 Amice de Montfort, daughter of Ralph, senior of Gael and Montfort. They had four children:

Hawise de Beaumont, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester;
Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester;
Isabel, who married with:
Simon II of St Liz, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton;
Gervase Paynel of Dudley.
Margaret, who married Ralph V de Toeni

Literary references
He is a minor character in The Holy Thief, and Brother Cadfael's Penance, of the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters.

Notes
^ a b c Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 69

References
D. Crouch, The Beaumont Twins: the Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 1986).
D. Crouch, The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (London, 2000).
E. King, "Mountsorrel and its region in King Stephen's Reign", Huntington Library Quarterly, 44 (1980), 1-10.
Leicester Abbey, ed. J. Storey, J. Bourne and R. Buckley (Leicester, 2006).
Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
British Library ms Royal E xxv.

ROBERT BEAUMONT (1104 - 1168)
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2ND EARL OF LEICESTER; JUSTICIAR OF ENGLAND (1155-1168); KNIGHTED 1122; CHIEF
MINISTER TO HENRY I

EARL OF LEICESTER

2nd Earl of Leicester. Lord Justice of England. [BROOKES.GED]

Robert was a twin.

!SOURCES:
1. Nichol's Lcstrs, vol 1 pt 1 p. 98 (GS #Q942.54 H2nic)
2. Wurts' Magna Charta vol 1-2 p. 85 (GS #942 D22w)
3. Dict of Nat'l Biog vol 4 p. 66-67 (GS # Ref 920.042 D561n)
4. Plantagenet Ancestry p. 100, 117 (GS #940 D25)
5. Baker's Nrthmp vol 1 p. 563 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)
6. The Battle Abbey Roll vol 1 p. 14, 148 (GS #942 D2bb)
7. Complete Peerage vol 7 p. 520 (GS #942 D24c)
8. Adjusted for Leland J. Hendrix (22 gg son to #1) 931 S. 100 E. Orem, Utah, 18 Apr 1968
9. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists 5563 (GS #974 D2w)
10. Americans of Royal Descent p. 34, 83, 119 (GS #973 D2ba)
11. Proving Your Pedigree p. 204 (GS #929.1 B439p)
12. Royal Anc Levi Tenney (GS #929.6 T157K)

!SOURCES:
1. Nichol's Lcstrs, vol 1 pt 1 p. 98 (GS #Q942.54 H2nic)
2. Wurts' Magna Charta vol 1-2 p. 85 (GS #942 D22w)
3. Dict of Nat'l Biog vol 4 p. 66-67 (GS # Ref 920.042 D561n)
4. Plantagenet Ancestry p. 100, 117 (GS #940 D25)
5. Baker's Nrthmp vol 1 p. 563 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)
6. The Battle Abbey Roll vol 1 p. 14, 148 (GS #942 D2bb)
7. Complete Peerage vol 7 p. 520 (GS #942 D24c)
8. Adjusted for Leland J. Hendrix (22 gg son to #1) 931 S. 100 E. Orem, Utah, 18 Apr 1968
9. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists 5563 (GS #974 D2w)
10. Americans of Royal Descent p. 34, 83, 119 (GS #973 D2ba)
11. Proving Your Pedigree p. 204 (GS #929.1 B439p)
12. Royal Anc Levi Tenney (GS #929.6 T157K)
?? Line 1257: (New PAF RIN=9380)
1 TITL [EARL OF LEICESTER] [TWIN]/
Line 4636 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [EARL OF LEICESTER] [TWIN]/
Line 1781 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [EARL OF LEICESTER] [TWIN]/
Line 218 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [EARL OF LEICESTER] [TWIN]/
Line 159 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [EARL OF LEICESTER] [TWIN]/
Line 218 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [EARL OF LEICESTER] [TWIN]/

!SOURCES:
1. Nichol's Lcstrs, vol 1 pt 1 p. 98 (GS #Q942.54 H2nic)
2. Wurts' Magna Charta vol 1-2 p. 85 (GS #942 D22w)
3. Dict of Nat'l Biog vol 4 p. 66-67 (GS # Ref 920.042 D561n)
4. Plantagenet Ancestry p. 100, 117 (GS #940 D25)
5. Baker's Nrthmp vol 1 p. 563 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)
6. The Battle Abbey Roll vol 1 p. 14, 148 (GS #942 D2bb)
7. Complete Peerage vol 7 p. 520 (GS #942 D24c)
8. Adjusted for Leland J. Hendrix (22 gg son to #1) 931 S. 100 E. Orem, Utah, 18 Apr 1968
9. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists 5563 (GS #974 D2w)
10. Americans of Royal Descent p. 34, 83, 119 (GS #973 D2ba)
11. Proving Your Pedigree p. 204 (GS #929.1 B439p)
12. Royal Anc Levi Tenney (GS #929.6 T157K)

Twin
Baptized or 13 Mar 1932
Endowed or 27 Jul 1932
From Genealogical Library book "House of Adam".

Robert Le Bossu De Beaumont
Spouse:Amice De Gael Et Montfort De Waiet

de Beaumont or de Bellomont
Twin
Waleran or Maleran, Count of Meulan
Baptized or 8 nov 1921
Endowed 4 jan 1922
AFN:V9VT-17 OR V9T7-17, May have been a typing error.

!BIRTH: "Royal Ancestors" by Michel Call - Based on Call Family Pedigrees FHL
film 844805 & 844806, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT. Copy of
"Royal Ancestors" owned by Lynn Bernhard, Orem, UT.

Data From Lynn Jeffrey Bernhard, 2445 W 450 South #4, Springville UT 84663-4950
email - (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)

! (1) Count of Meulan, twin of Robert, (b.1104--CPv7p527, but) born not later
that 1097--Gnsv10p115 with proof; fot as a rebel in 1123--CPv8p211; d.
1166--CPv7p520; md Agnes de Montfort (1114)-1181 Dec 15; had Robert and
Isabel--CPv12.1-APPp29
(2) Waleran de Beaumont: (d. before October 13, 1204). Earl of Warwick.
Married #1. Margery de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and his wife
Margaret, daughter of Miles of Gloucester and he married #2. ca. 1196, Alicede
Harcourt, daughter of Robert de Harcourt of Bosworth, County Leicester and his
wife Isabel Camville, daughter of Richard Camville. Alice died after September
1212. Waleran was with Henry II in 1187/8 and was present at the coronationof
King Richard I at Westminster in 1189 and carried the right hand sword at King
John's coronation in 1199. He was a benefactor to hospitals and abbeys.--Adec,
FHL 929.273,C769w
?? Line 2150: (New PAF RIN=9445)
1 TITL [Earl of Worcester]
Line 4606 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [Earl of Worcester]
Line 2821 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [Earl of Worcester]
Line 188 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [Earl of Worcester]
Line 346 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [Earl of Worcester]
Line 188 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
TITL [Earl of Worcester]

! (1) Count of Meulan, twin of Robert, (b.1104--CPv7p527, but) born not later
that 1097--Gnsv10p115 with proof; fot as a rebel in 1123--CPv8p211; d.
1166--CPv7p520; md Agnes de Montfort (1114)-1181 Dec 15; had Robert and
Isabel--CPv12.1-APPp29
(2) Waleran de Beaumont: (d. before October 13, 1204). Earl of Warwick.
Married #1. Margery de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and his wife
Margaret, daughter of Miles of Gloucester and he married #2. ca. 1196, Alicede
Harcourt, daughter of Robert de Harcourt of Bosworth, County Leicester and his
wife Isabel Camville, daughter of Richard Camville. Alice died after September
1212. Waleran was with Henry II in 1187/8 and was present at the coronationof
King Richard I at Westminster in 1189 and carried the right hand sword at King
John's coronation in 1199. He was a benefactor to hospitals and abbeys.--Adec,
FHL 929.273,C769w

!SOURCES:
1. Nichol's Lcstrs, vol 1 pt 1 p. 98 (GS #Q942.54 H2nic)
2. Wurts' Magna Charta vol 1-2 p. 85 (GS #942 D22w)
3. Dict of Nat'l Biog vol 4 p. 66-67 (GS # Ref 920.042 D561n)
4. Plantagenet Ancestry p. 100, 117 (GS #940 D25)
5. Baker's Nrthmp vol 1 p. 563 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)
6. The Battle Abbey Roll vol 1 p. 14, 148 (GS #942 D2bb)
7. Complete Peerage vol 7 p. 520 (GS #942 D24c)
8. Adjusted for Leland J. Hendrix (22 gg son to #1) 931 S. 100 E. Orem, Utah, 18 Apr 1968
9. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists 5563 (GS #974 D2w)
10. Americans of Royal Descent p. 34, 83, 119 (GS #973 D2ba)
11. Proving Your Pedigree p. 204 (GS #929.1 B439p)
12. Royal Anc Levi Tenney (GS #929.6 T157K)

1 NAME Bossu //
2 GIVN Bossu
2 SURN
2 NICK Bossu

2ndEarl of Leicester.
For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site

from "Our Folk" by Albert D Hart, Jr.

Robert de Bellomont, 2nd son, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Lord of Breteuil andPoci, in France, was born in 1104. This nobleman stoutly adhered to HenryI upon all occasions, was with him at his decease in 1135, and heafterwards as staunchly supported the interests of Henry's grandson,Henry II, upon whose accession to the throne his lordship was constitutedJustice of England. He married Amicia, daughter and heir of Robert deWaer, Earl of Norfolk, by whom he had a son Robert and two daughters. TheEarl, who was a munificent benefactor of the church, and founder ofseveral religious houses, died in 1167, after having lived for fifteenyears a canon regular in the Abbey of Leicester. He was succeeded by hisson, Robert.

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Voorouders (en nakomelingen) van Robert "le Bossu" de Beaumont

Roger de Vieilles de Beaumont
1022-1066

Adeline Adelise de Meulan
1025-1081

Hugues Magnus "The Great" de Crépi
± 1057-1102

Adèle (Adelaide) de Vermandois
± 1065-1123

Robert de Beaumont
1046-1118

Isabella Elizabeth de Vermandois
± 1085-1147

Robert "le Bossu" de Beaumont
± 1104-1168

Amice (uta) (Waiet) Emma de Breteuil
± 1094-± 1168



				Marguerite de Beaumont ± 1136-± 1185		Robert "Blanchmains" de Beaumont ± 1135-1190

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Doopdag 18 november 1993

Doopdag 18 november 1993

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Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was van 30 april 1980 tot 30 april 2013 vorst van Nederland (ook wel Koninkrijk der Nederlanden genoemd)
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In het jaar 1993: Bron: Wikipedia
- Nederland had zo'n 15,2 miljoen inwoners.
- 3 januari » Bij zware gevechten tussen regeringstroepen en strijders van UNITA in het zuidwesten van Angola vallen enige honderden doden. De strijd concentreert zich in en rondom de stad Lubango.
- 25 januari » Togolese veiligheidstroepen schieten zeker twaalf mensen dood die in de hoofdstad Lomé deelnemen aan een betoging tegen de regering van president Étienne Eyadéma.
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- 3 augustus » Het Peruaanse Congres besluit dat de doodstraf mag worden toegepast op verdachten van terroristische activiteiten.
- 25 september » Drie Amerikaanse VN-soldaten komen in de Somalische hoofdstad Mogadishu om het leven als hun helikopter wordt getroffen door een granaat. De helikopter stort neer in een wijk die wordt beheerst door milities van krijgsheer Mohammed Farrah Aidid.
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1534 » Jan Matthijs (35), charismatisch leider van de wederdopers. Zijn volgelingen beschouwden hem als een profeet.
1574 » Catalina Tomàs (41), Spaans heilige
1684 » William Brouncker (~64), Brits wetenschapper
1697 » Karel XI van Zweden (41), koning van Zweden
1732 » Johann Christian Schieferdecker (52), Duits organist en componist
1765 » Edward Young (81), Engels dichter

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