Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameRobert Of Meulan DE BEAUMONT 1st Earl Of Leicester, 26G Grandfather
FatherRoger DE BEAUMONT Lord Of Pont-Audemer (~1010-~1094)
MotherAdeline DE MEULAN (~1014-1081)
Spouses
1Isabel Of Vermandois DE CRÉPI Countess Of Leicester, 26G Grandmother
FatherHugh 'the Great' DE CRÉPI Count Of Vermandois (1057-1102)
MotherAdele DE VERMANDOIS (~1050-1120)
Web Notes notes for Robert Of Meulan DE BEAUMONT 1st Earl Of Leicester
Came to England with William 'The Conqueor'. In the Battle of Hastings in 1066, for gallant service, he received 64 Lordships in Warwickshire, 16 in Leicestershire, 7 in Wiltshire, 3 in Northamptonshire, and 1 in Gloucestershire - 91 in all.
Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (50:24), (53:24), (66:24), (140:24), (141:24), (151:25), (215:24). Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Leicester, pp. 523-526). b. about 1046, accompanied WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR in the invasion of England in 1066, and having greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Hastings, was rewarded with vast possessions in England, receiving ninety one great lordships or manors, mostly in Warwickshire. Upon the death of his mother in 1081 he became Comte de Meulan in France.
After the death of THE CONQUERER he adhered to King William Rufus and was in high favor at his court. He quarreled with Robert of Normandy about the castellanship of Brionne, for which he was imprisoned, but later released through the intersession of his father. Robert succeeded to the greater part of his father's lands in Normandy including Beaumont, Pont-Audemer, Vatteville, and Brionne. This paternal inheritance, added to his French compte and to his great possessions in counties Warwick and Leicester, made him one of the most powerful vassals of the Crown. After the death of William Rufus, he became one of the chief advisors to KING HENRY I.
Upon the death of Ivo de Grandmesnil, Robert became lord of those estates also. This gave him one quarter of the town of Leicester, to which KING HENRY later added the remaining three quarters. In 1104 Robert was one of the barons who adhered to KING HENRY on his arrival in Normandy. He was present in THE KING's army at Tenchebrai in 1106. In 1110 he was besieged at Meulan by [the French King] LOUIS VI, who took the castle by storm, but in the following year he retaliated by a rain on Paris, which he plundered.
"ROBERT DE BEAUMONT (or DE BELLOMONT), about 1107 was probably created Earl of Leicester in England by KING HENRY I., and d. 5 June 1118, aged nearly eighty years. (P) He m. (1) Godechilde de Toeni, daughter of RALPH DE TOENI, Seigneur de Conches in Normandy; they had no children and were divorced. [As explained in the note below, this is in error.] (P) He m. (2), about 1096, ISABEL DE VERMANDOIS, daughter of HUGH THE GREAT, Comte de Vermandois in France."
--- J Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy*, Boston, 1914, p 5
Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (TONY, p.760, in note e), says: "Godehut, who m. Baldwin, s. of Eustace, Count of Boulogne. . . Orderic gives her as 1st husband Robert, Count of Meulan, which is a mistake."
Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (50:24), (53:24), (66:24), (140:24), (141:24), (151:25), (215:24). Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Leicester, pp. 523-526). b. about 1046, accompanied WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR in the invasion of England in 1066, and having greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Hastings, was rewarded with vast possessions in England, receiving ninety one great lordships or manors, mostly in Warwickshire. Upon the death of his mother in 1081 he became Comte de Meulan in France.
After the death of THE CONQUERER he adhered to King William Rufus and was in high favor at his court. He quarreled with Robert of Normandy about the castellanship of Brionne, for which he was imprisoned, but later released through the intersession of his father. Robert succeeded to the greater part of his father's lands in Normandy including Beaumont, Pont-Audemer, Vatteville, and Brionne. This paternal inheritance, added to his French compte and to his great possessions in counties Warwick and Leicester, made him one of the most powerful vassals of the Crown. After the death of William Rufus, he became one of the chief advisors to KING HENRY I.
Upon the death of Ivo de Grandmesnil, Robert became lord of those estates also. This gave him one quarter of the town of Leicester, to which KING HENRY later added the remaining three quarters. In 1104 Robert was one of the barons who adhered to KING HENRY on his arrival in Normandy. He was present in THE KING's army at Tenchebrai in 1106. In 1110 he was besieged at Meulan by [the French King] LOUIS VI, who took the castle by storm, but in the following year he retaliated by a rain on Paris, which he plundered.
"ROBERT DE BEAUMONT (or DE BELLOMONT), about 1107 was probably created Earl of Leicester in England by KING HENRY I., and d. 5 June 1118, aged nearly eighty years. (P) He m. (1) Godechilde de Toeni, daughter of RALPH DE TOENI, Seigneur de Conches in Normandy; they had no children and were divorced. [As explained in the note below, this is in error.] (P) He m. (2), about 1096, ISABEL DE VERMANDOIS, daughter of HUGH THE GREAT, Comte de Vermandois in France."
--- J Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy*, Boston, 1914, p 5
Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (TONY, p.760, in note e), says: "Godehut, who m. Baldwin, s. of Eustace, Count of Boulogne. . . Orderic gives her as 1st husband Robert, Count of Meulan, which is a mistake."