Person:Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (1)
Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
b.est 1046
d.5 Jun 1118 Leicestershire, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. est 1040
  1. Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
  2. William de Beaumont
  3. Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick
  4. Aubreye de Beaumont
Spouse and Children
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m. Apr 1096
  1. Aubreye de Beaumont
  2. Adeline de Beaumont
  3. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester
  4. Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester
  5. Isabelle de Beaumont
  6. Agnes de Beaumont
  7. Maud de Beaumont
  8. Hugh de Beaumont, Earl of Bedford
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Facts and Events
Name[15] Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
Gender Male
Birth[16] est 1046
Marriage Apr 1096 Normandie, Franceto Elizabeth , of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester
Other  Speculative child?: Eleanor Beaumont (3) 
with Elizabeth , of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester
Death[1] 5 Jun 1118 Leicestershire, England
Burial[16] aft 5 Jun 1118 Les Préaux, Eure, Francemonastery of Saint-Pierre


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Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (between 1040 and 1050 – 5 June 1118) was a powerful English and French nobleman, revered as one of the wisest men of his age. Chroniclers speak highly of his eloquence, his learning, and three kings of England valued his counsel.

He accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066, where his service earned him more than 91 lordships and manors. When his mother died in 1081, Robert inherited the title of Count of Meulan in Normandy, also the title of Viscount Ivry and Lord of Norton. He paid homage to Philip I of France for these estates and sat as French Peer in the Parliament held at Poissy.

At the Battle of Hastings Robert was appointed leader of the infantry on the right wing of the army.

He and his brother Henry were members of the Royal hunting party in the New Forest, when William Rufus received his mysterious death wound, 2 August 1100. He then pledged allegiance to William Rufus' brother, Henry I of England, who created him Earl of Leicester in 1107.

On the death of William Rufus, William, Count of Évreux and Ralph de Conches made an incursion into Robert's Norman estates, on the pretence that they had suffered injury through some advice that Robert had given to the King; their raid was very successful for they collected a vast booty.

According to Henry of Huntingdon, Robert died of shame after "a certain earl carried off the lady he had espoused, either by some intrigue or by force and stratagem." His wife Isabella remarried in 1118 to William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey.

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References
  1. ↑ Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
  2.   Complete Peerage vol 7 p. 522-530, vol 4 Ch III (GS #942 D24c).
  3.   Burke's Peerage 1831 p. 43, 44 (GS #942 D22bua).
  4.   Col Fam of L.I., N.Y. & Conn p. 2456, 2457, 2475 (GS #929.273 S383s).
  5.   Americans of Royal Descent p. 34, 75, 83, 178, 199 (GS #Ref 73 D2ba).
  6.   Royal Ancestry of Kevu Tenney p. 51 (GS #929.6 T257k).
  7.   Ancestral Roots of 60 N.E. Colonists p. 65, 69 (GS #974 D2w).
  8.   Plantagenet Ancestry p. 88, 100, 112, 117 (GS #Q940 D2t).
  9.   Proving Your Pedigree p. 206 (GS #929.1 B239p).
  10.   Nichol's Lcstrs vol 1 pt 1 p. 98 (GS #Q942.54 H2nic).
  11.   Baker's Nrthmp vol 1 p. 414, 563 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba).
  12.   Wurts' Magna Charta vol 1 p. 185 (GS #942 D22w).
  13.   Dict of Nat'l Biog vol 4 p. 64-66 (GS # Ref 920.042 D561n).
  14.   Robert de Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  15. ↑ Adams, Arthur. English Ancestry of the Elkinton Family of New Jersey. The American Genealogist. (July 1945), p. 14.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 ROBERT de Beaumont-le-Roger, son of ROGER de Vieilles Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger & his wife Adeline de Meulan ([1046]-5 or 6 Jun 1118, bur Préaux, monastery of Saint-Pierre, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
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