Robert de Breteuil, third earl of Leicester

Also known as Robert ès Blanchmains, Robert the Whitehanded, and Robert de Beaumont.

3rd earl of Leicester

Events

Date of Birth: about 1130.

This date is given by Crouch (ODNB).

Date of Death: 1190, probably at the end of August.

Place of Death: Durazzo.

The date and place are given by Crouch (ODNB).

Place of Burial: Leicester Abbey.

The place is given by Crouch (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Robert (1104 - 1168), second earl of Leicester.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 234).

Mother: Amice, daughter of Ralph de Gael.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 234).

Spouse: Petronilla de Grandmesnil (died 1212).

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB). Keats-Rohan (p. 234) gives a marriage to Matilda, daughter of Reginald, earl of Cornwall.

Children:

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William de Breteuil (died 1189).

Robert de Breteuil (died 20 or 21 October 1204), fourth earl of Leicester, married Loretta de Briouze.

Roger. Bishop of St Andrews.

Amice (died September 1215) married (1) Simon de Montfort the younger, count of Évreux; married (2) William des Barres the elder.

Margaret married Saer de Quincy.

Hawise, a nun at the priory of Nuneaton.

Petronilla.

References

Crouch, David.”Breteuil, Robert de, third earl of Leicester (c. 1130-1190)” 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).

Oram, Richard D. “Quincy, Saer de, earl of Winchester (d. 1219)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).