Roger, lord of Beaumont-le-Roger

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Place: unknown.

Date of Death: 29 November 1094.

The date is given by Cawley. The Complete Peerage (7:523) states that Roger died a few years after 1090.

Place of Burial: the Abbey of Préaux.

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

Relationships

Father: Humphrey de Vielles, lord of Vielles and of Audemer.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (7:522), by Crouch (1986, p. 16), and by Tanner. Humphrey was the son of Thorold.

Mother: Aubreye.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (7:522), by Crouch (1986, p. 16), and by Tanner.

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

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

Children:

Robert de Beaumont (died 5 June 1118), count of Meulan, earl of Leicester, married Isabel de Vermandois.

Henry de Beaumont (died 1119), earl of Warwick, married Marguerite de Perche.

Aubreye de Beaumont (died 1112).

References

Cawley, Charles. “Roger de Vielles” 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).

Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).