Robert DE BEAUMONT-LE-ROGER Comte de Meulan et Earl of Leceister

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Source JP De Palmas

Sir Robert, 1st earl of Beaumont, (son of Roger de Beaumont & Adelaide de Meulan, dau of Waleran Count of Meulan & Oda de Conteville) pont audemer, Brionne & Vatteville, in Normandy; Count de Meulan in the french Vexin, & Earl of Leicester... accompanied William the Conqueror at Hastings, receiving manors & lordships in Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Northampton, Wilts; built castle at Leicester. When Henry 1 became king, he was his favorite minister & confidant. Henry made him earl of Leicester m Elizabeth--Isabella de Vermondois, dau of Hugh Magnus & Adelaide de Vermondois

Robert married Elisabeth DE FRANCE Comtesse de Leceister, daughter of Hugues Le Grand DE FRANCE Comte de Valois, Vermandois et Chaumont and Adélaïde, in 1096. (Elisabeth DE FRANCE Comtesse de Leceister was born in 1085, died on 13 Feb 1131 in Meulan, 78 and was buried in Lewes, Sussex, UK.)