Robert de Beaumont, earl of Leicester

Count of Meulan

First earl of Leicester

Events

Date of Birth: about 1046.

The estimated date is given by the Complete Peerage (7:523).

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 5 June 1118.

The date is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (7:526).

Place of Death: England.

The place is given by Crouch (1986, p. 3).

Place of Burial: Préaux.

The date is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (7:526).

Relationships

Father: Roger, lord of Beaumont-le-Roger and Pont Audemer.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (7:523).

Mother: Adeline, daughter of Waleran, count of Meulan.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (7:523).

Spouse: Isabel de Vermandois (died 1147).

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and the Complete Peerage (7:526; 10:351).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below is from Cawley.)

Waleran de Beaumont (1104 - 9 or 10 April 1166), count of Meulan, married Agnes de Montfort in 1141.

Robert de Beaumont (1104 - 5 April 1168), earl of Leicester, married Amice de Gaël.

Isabella married Gilbert fitz Gilbert de Clare, earl of Pembroke. Isabella was a mistress of king Henry I.

Hugh de Beaumont, earl of Bedford, married a daughter of Simon de Beauchamp.

Adeline de Beaumont married Hugues (IV), lord of Montfort-sur-Risle.

Aubrey de Beaumont married Hugues (II), lord of Châteauneuf-en-Thimerais.

Mathilde de Beaumont married Guillaume, lord of Ivry.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Robert de Beaumont-le-Roger” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

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

Crouch, David. “Beaumont, Robert de, count of Meulan and first earl of Leicester (d. 1118) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).