Robert de Breteuil, earl of Leicester

Also (later) known as Robert de Beaumont.

2nd earl of Leicester

Events

Date of Birth: 1104.

The date is given by Crouch (ODNB).

Date of Death: 5 April 1168.

Place of Death: Leicester.

The date and place are given by Crouch (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (7:530).

Place of Burial: the choir at Leicester Abbey.

The place is given by Crouch (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Robert de Beaumont (died 1118), count of Meulan and earl of Leicester.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 233), and by the Complete Peerage (7:527).

Mother: Isabel, daughter of Hugues, count of Vermandois.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (7:527).

Spouse: Amice, daughter of Ralph de Gael. Married about 1121.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 233), and by the Complete Peerage (7:529).

Children:

Margaret (born 1125) married Ralph de Tosny.

Robert de Breteuil (about 1130 - 1190), third earl of Leicester, married Petronilla de Grandmesnil.

Isabel married Simon (II) de Senlis, earl of Northampton and of Huntingdon.

Hawise married William, earl of Gloucester.

References

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.”Breteuil, Robert de, third earl of Leicester (c. 1130-1190)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Crouch, David.”Robert, second earl of Leicester (1104-1168)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).