Beaumont, Maud de
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1. Beaumont, Maud de (daughter of de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester Robert and Grantmesnil, Petronella ("Pernel") de). Notes:
Beaumont heiress
Maud married de Montfort, Count of Evreux Simon III on Yes, date unknown. Simon (son of Montfort, Count of Evreux Amauri de and Garland, Agnes de) died on 12 Mar 1181. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- D'Evereux, Bertrade was born in 1155; died in 1227.
2. de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester Robert (son of Beaumont, Robert de and de Waer, Amice de Montfort); died on 31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Crusader
Notes:
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Robert was 3rd Earl of Leicester, Lord of Hinckley, Breteuil and Paci, and
was on the 2nd Crusade in 1179. He died in Greece on his way home from a
pilgrimage. He was also Stewart of England.Robert married Grantmesnil, Petronella ("Pernel") de about 1155. Petronella (daughter of Grantmesnil, Hugh de II) died on 1 Apr 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Grantmesnil, Petronella ("Pernel") de (daughter of Grantmesnil, Hugh de II); died on 1 Apr 1212. Children:
Generation: 3
4. Beaumont, Robert de was born in 1104 (son of de Beaumont, Count of Meulan Robert and de Vermandois, Isabel (aka Elizabeth)); died on 5 Apr 1168. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: 2nd Earl of Leicester
Notes:
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Robert received his father's English fiefs in 1118, becoming Earl of
Leicester; was a chief advisor to King Stephen, but made his peace with
Henry II and became Chief Justiciar of England. "First among the lay nobles
he signed the Constitution of Clarendon, he sought to reconcile Henry and
Archbishop Becket, and was twice in charge of the kingdom during the king's
absences in France. The earl founded the abbey of St. Mary de Pre at
Leicester and other religious houses, and by a charter confirmed the
burgesses of Leicester in the possession of their merchant-guild and
customs." -Encyclopedia Britannica, 1956, 3:275.Robert married de Waer, Amice de Montfort on Yes, date unknown. Amice (daughter of de Guader, Earl of Norfolk Ralph II and Hereford, Lady Emma of) died after 1168. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. de Waer, Amice de Montfort (daughter of de Guader, Earl of Norfolk Ralph II and Hereford, Lady Emma of); died after 1168. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: became a nun
Children:
- Beaumont, Hawise de died on 24 Apr 1197.
- 2. de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester Robert died on 31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece.
6. Grantmesnil, Hugh de II (son of Grantmesnil, Ivo de and daughter of Gilbert de Gant). Notes:
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Carr P. Collins, Jr., "Royal Ancestors of Magna Charta Barons" (Dallas,
1959), p. 129, is uncertain whether Hugh (II) is son of Ivo or of Ivo's
brother, Robert, or whether there were two Hughs (one a son of Ivo and one
a nephew of Ivo), both referred to as Lord High Steward of England.
Adeliza is shown as daughter of Hugh, son of Ivo; Petronella is shown as
daughter of Hugh, son of Robert (Ivo's brother).Children:
- 3. Grantmesnil, Petronella ("Pernel") de died on 1 Apr 1212.
Generation: 4
8. de Beaumont, Count of Meulan Robert was born in 1046 (son of Bello-Mont, Roger de and de Meulan, Lady Adelise); died on 5 Jun 1118. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Earl of Leicester
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Robert Beaumont was a young man at the Battle of Hastings. As a vassal of William he was
present at the Council of War at Lillebonne and provided ships for the crossing. He commanded
a troop on the right wing and according to William of Poitiers attacked with effectiveness and
bravery in what was his first battle. He was made Earl of Leicester after the battle. Robert
was first Earl of Leicester, Lord of Beaumont, Pont-Audemar, et Brionne (France), Comte de
Meulan (Normandy) - a typical nobleman in the Norman army of occupation, holding lands and
titles on both sides of the Channel. His wife, Isabel, married secondly William de Warenne,
2nd Earl of Surrey/Warren (q.v.). Robert fought at Hastings and had added large estates in
Warwickshire to the Norman fiefs gained when his father entered the Abbey of St. Peter at
Preaux. Under Henry I Robert became "the first among the counsellors of the king." A
"strenuous and sagacious man," he served well in the Norman wars of William II and Henry I
(who owed his crown to Robert). Henry of Huntingdon states that Robert is "the wisest man
between this and Jerusalem." At Robert's death his lands were apparently divided between his
twin sons, Robert and Waleran, while a third son, Hugh, became Earl of Bedford in 1138.
(-Encyclopedia Britannica, 1956, 3:274) Robert's brother, Henry de Newburgh, b. ca. 1046, d.
20 June 1123, was created 1st Earl of Warwick about 1090 and married before 1100 Margaret De
Perche (living in 1156). For Warwickshire holdings, see (May, 1999) Web site:
http://infokey.com/Domesday/Warwickshire.htmRobert married de Vermandois, Isabel (aka Elizabeth) in 1096. Isabel (daughter of Crepi, Hugh Magnus de and Vermandois, Adelaide ("Adele") de) was born in 1081; died on 13 Feb 1131. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. de Vermandois, Isabel (aka Elizabeth) was born in 1081 (daughter of Crepi, Hugh Magnus de and Vermandois, Adelaide ("Adele") de); died on 13 Feb 1131. Notes:
Married:
her firstChildren:
- Beaumont, Isabel ("Elizabeth") de
- 4. Beaumont, Robert de was born in 1104; died on 5 Apr 1168.
10. de Guader, Earl of Norfolk Ralph II (son of The Staller Ralph and Ivry, Emma of); died in 1096. Notes:
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De Guader or de Gael. Ralph was Norman Earl of Norfolk, Suffolk and
Cambridge as well as Lord of Gael in his native land of Brittany. His
inheritance of Gael included more than 40 parishes - he resided in later
life there, though he died while on Crusade with the Duke of Normandy.
However, Encyclopedia Britannica (1956, 16:488) states that Ralph
"forfeited the earldom when he revolted against William in 1075." He is
"probably the son of Ralf, earl of Hereford (or earl of the East Angles),
and Getha, an English heiress, which Ralf was the son of Gode, sister of
Edward the Confessor, by her first husband, Dreu, count of Vexin, Pontoise,
Chaumont and Amiens. {-per M.J.Crispiin's "Falaise Roll," 1938, p. 74 -
this is the father shown for him as #565}. Ralph was a major field
commander for the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, for which he
received the earldoms of Norfolk and Suffolk, and part of Cambridge.Ralph married Hereford, Lady Emma of in 1075. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. Hereford, Lady Emma of (daughter of Osbern, William Fitz and Toeni, Adelina ("Alice") de). Children:
- 5. de Waer, Amice de Montfort died after 1168.
12. Grantmesnil, Ivo de (son of Grantmesnil, Hugh I de and Beaumont, Alice de). Ivo married daughter of Gilbert de Gant on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. daughter of Gilbert de Gant (daughter of Gant, Baron of Folkingham Gilbert de and de Montfort, Alice (or Jeanne)). Children: