BEAUMONT - LINE 3

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William LOVEL
born - France - Ivry, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne 1090
died - England - Somerset 1175
married -
Maud De Beaumont
born - England - Leicester, Leicestershire 1114
died - England -
Children
1. Henry De Lovel

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Robert D' Beaumont
born - France - Meulan, Yvelines, St-E-O, Normandy 1060
died -
married - France - Beaumont-Sur-Oise, Normandy 1096
Isabel D' Vermandois
born - France - Valois 1085
died - France - Saint Nicaise 13 Feb 1130-1131
Children
1. Dead
2. Eleanor Beaumont
3. Dead
4. Adeline Gundrea Debellmont D' Beaumont
5. Dead
6. Dead
7. Waleran Count Of Meulan
8. Havoise De Beaumont-Le-Roger
9. Robert D' Beaumont
10. Maud Amice Of Evreux D' Beaumont Evereux - Meulan, Normandy, France -
Leicester, Leicestershire, England - 1114 - 1130
11. Hugh D' Beaumont
12. Isabel D' Beaumont
13. Adeline D' Beaumont

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Robert I De Beaumont - Count\Earl
born - France - Meulan / Leicester, Leicestershire 1069
died - 5 JUN 1118
married - France -
Elizabeth De Vermandois - Countess
born - France - Valois, Bretagne 1081
died - France - St. Nicaise, Meulan JULY 1147

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Roger De Beaumont - Count
born - Normandy - Eure 1022
died - 29 OCT 1094
married -
Adeleza De Meulent
born - Normandy - Ponteaudemur 1024
died - 1081
Children
1. Robert I De Beaumon

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Humphrey De Viellers - Seigneur
born - Normandy - of Beaumont & Viellers 980
died -
married -
Unknown
born -
died -
Children
1. Roger De Beaumont

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Humphrey De Viellers -
born - France - Pont-Andemer,Normandy 980
died - France - Abby of Pre'aux,Pont-Andemer 28 SEP 1044
married -
Aubreye DE LA HAIE
born - 984
died - 20 SEP 1045
Children
1.Roger DE BEAUMONT

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Turold DE PONTAUDEMER
born - France - Normandy 950
died - 1040
married -
Wevia DE CREPON
born - 958
died -
Children
1. Humphrey DE VIELLERS

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Torf DE TOURVILLE - The Rich Baron
born - France - Normandy 928
died - France - Normandy 1013
married -
Ertemberge de Bricanbert BARTRAM
born - France - Normandy 930
died - France - Normandy 1001
Children
1. Turold DE PONTAUDEMER

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de Tourville TORF- Seigneur
born - 901
died - 970
married -
Unknown
born -
died -
Children
1. Torf DE TOURVILL

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Bernard "The DANE'
born - Norway - Saxony or Maer 860
died - France - Normandy 950
married -
Sprota (Sprote) DE BOURGOGNE
born - France - Normandy 880
died - France - Normandy 936
Children
1.I,Seigneur de Tourville TORF

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SKIPPED
born -
died -
married -
SKIPPED
born -
died -

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BRUNO - Duke of the Angrian Saxons
born -
died -
married -
HASALA - Princess of the Holstein Saxons
born -
died -
Children
1. Bernard "The DANE

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"Roger was nicknamed Barbatus or La Barbe because he wore a
moustache and beard while the Normans usually were clean shaven. This
peculiarity is recognized in the thirty-second panel of the Bayeux Tapestry
where he is depicted sitting at a feast with Duke William on his left hand,
Odo, brother of William and Bishop of Bayeux, in the centre."

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The battle field from the north side
"Bernard the Dane (French - Bernard le Danois; c.880 - before 960), was a Viking
jarl (earl) of Danish origins. He put himself in the service of another jarl installed at
the mouth of the Seine, Rollo (before 911). After the accords of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte
that officially gave birth to the duchy of Normandy (911), Bernard converted to the
Christianity at Rouen the following year (912) and shortly afterwards received from
Rollo, the county of Pont-Audemer in the Eure then, later, the city of Harcourt.

Under Rollo's son and successor Duke William, Bernard was charged at the
beginning of the 930s with putting down the serious uprising led by a certain Riouf
(a Norman from the west, who had besieged the Duke in Rouen), then in around
935 he put down a revolt in Bessin and Cotentin by Viking communities completely
independent from the young and fragile power of the dukedom, unlike the east of
the duchy of Normandy where its ducal power was affirmed a little later.

Later, on William's premature death by assassination, Bernard became regent of
the duchy of Normandy in December 942, beside Anslech de Bricquebec, Osmond
de Conteville and Raoul Taisson.

In 945-946, he appealed to Harald Bluetooth and his Danes to defend the duchy
when it was attacked by the Carolingian king Louis of Outremer and Hugh the
Great, duke of the Franks. Louis was attempting to retake the lands of the west in
Normandy that had been granted to the Viking bands thirty years earlier.

Bernard died a few years late (before 960). He was the ancestor of two great
Anglo-Norman baronial families, the Beaumonts and the Harcourts."

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"The Norman family of Beaumont was one of the great baronial Anglo-Norman families
which became rooted in England after the Norman conquest.

Roger de Beaumont, lord (seigneur) of Pont-Audemer, of Beaumont-le-Roger, of Brionne
and of Vatteville, was too old to fight at Hastings, staying in Normandy to govern and protect
it whilst William was away on the invasion. As a reward he received lands in
Leicestershire. His son Robert de Beaumont, comte de Meulan, who commanded the
Norman right wing at Hastings, became the first earl of Leicester. His brother Henri de
Beaumont was created earl of Warwick.

During Stephen's reign, the twins Galéran and Robert were powerful allies to the king, and
as a reward Galéran (already comte de Meulan) was made earl of Worcester.

Counsel from the Beaumonts was much-listened-to by the dukes of Normandy, then by the
kings of England.

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Robert I De Beaumont - Count\Earl
Elizabeth De Vermandois - Countess
" Notes for Count/Earl Robert I De Beaumont:
THE CONQUEROR AND HIS COMPANIONS, by J. R. Planche’
[Continued from Roger, his father]
He was one of the royal hunting party in the New Forest on the 2nd of August, 1100,
when William Rufus received his mysterious death-wound, and hastened on the
instant with Prince Henry to Winchester, in order to secure the royal treasure, as well
as the succession to the throne of England.
Under the reign of the new King he retained the favour and influence he had enjoyed
during, those of the two Williams, and commanded the English army, which
achieved the conquest of Normandy by Henry 1, in 1106, who acknowledged himself
indebted for it to the advice and valour of the Earl of Leicester, to which dignity Robert
de Meulent had been advanced by him at some period not distinctly ascertained, but
most probably in the first year of his reign.
Orderic Vital gives the following account of the mode by which he obtained the
earldom: The town of Leicester had four masters-the King, the Bishop of Lincoln,
Earl Simon “ (Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon), “and Ivo, the son of Hugh
(deGrentmesnil). The latter had been heavily fined for turbulent conduct, and was in
disgrace at Court. He was also galled by being nicknamed the Rope-dancer, having
been one of those who had been let down by ropes from the walls of Antioch. He
therefore had resolved to rejoin the Crusade, and made an agreement with the
Count of Meulent to the following effect:The Count was to procure his reconciliation
with the King, and to advance him five hundred silver marks for the expenses of his
expedition, having the whole of Ivo’s domains pledged to him as a security for fifteen
years. In consideration of this, the Count was to give the daughter of his brother
Henry, Earl of Warwick, in marriage to Ivo’s son, who was yet in his infancy, and to
restore him his father’s inheritance. This contract was confirmed by oath, and ratified
by the King , but Ivo died on his road to the Holy Land, and Robert de Meulent, by
royal favour and his own address, contrived to get the whole of Leicester into his own
hands, and being in consequence created an English earl, his wealth and power
surpassed those of any other peer of the realm, and he was exalted above nearly all
his family. This great warrior and able man is said to have died of sorrow and
mortification, caused by the infidelity of his second wife Elizabeth, otherwise Isabella,
daughter of Hugh the Great, Comte de Vermandois and of Chaumont in the Vexin.
He had married--the date at present unknown-- Godechilde de Conches, daughter of
Roger de Toeni, Seigneur de Conches, but had separated from her before 1096, as
in that year she, who could not then have been seventeen, became the wife of
Baldwin, son of Eustace de Boulogne, who was King of Jerusalem after the decease
of his brother Godfrey. Robert de Meulent, then being between fifty and sixty, and
without issue, sought the hand of Elizabeth de Vermandois, who was in the bloom of
youth, and was accepted by the lady; but Ivo, Bishop of Chatres, forbade the marriage
on the ground of consanguinity, the Count of Vermandois and the Count of Meulent
being both great-grandsons of Gautier II., surnamed Le Blanc, Count of the Vexin. A
dispensation obtained, however, from the Pope, on condition that Count Hugh
should take the Cross, and the marriage was celebrated on the eve of his departure
for the Holy Land, the same year in which Robert’s first wife married Baldwin de
Boulogne.
The issue of Robert de Meulent by his second wife was a daughter named Emma,
born, according to Orderic, in 1102; two sons (twins),’ baptized Waleran and Robert,
born in 1104; a third son, known as Hugh the Poor, afterwards Earl of Bedford, and
three other daughters, Adeline, Amicia, and Albreda, all of whom must have been
born after 1104, when their father, then Earl of Leicester, was well stricken in years.
Orderic, indeed, says he had five daughters, the fifth being named Isabel, after her
mother.
All these children being born in wedlock, were of course in the eyes of the law
legitimate, but William de Warren, Earl of Warren and Surrey, second of that name,
son of the mysterious Gundred, had supplanted the Earl of Leicester for some years
in the affections of his wife, and her ultimate desertion of him for his young rival
affected his mind, and hurried him to the grave, June 5, 1118.
Henry of Huntingdon, in his Letter to Walter,” gives the following account of his last
moments:--
I will mention the Earl of Meulent, the most sagacious in political affairs of all who
lived between this and Jerusalem. His mind was enlightened, his eloquence
persuasive, his shrewdness acute ; he was provident and wily; his prudence never
failed; his counsels were profound; his wisdom great. He had extensive and noble
possessions, which are commonly called honours, together with towns and castles,
villages and farms, woods and waters, which he acquired by the exercise of the
talents I have mentioned. His domains lay not only in England but in Normandy and
France, so that he was able at his will to promote concord between the sovereigns of
those countries, or to set them at variance and provoke them to war. If he took
umbrage against any man, his enemy was humbled and crushed, while those he
favoured were exalted to honour. Hence his coffers were filled with a prodigious
influx of wealth in gold and silver, besides precious gems and costly furniture and
apparel. But When he was in the zenith of his power it happened that a certain earl
carried off the lady he had espoused, either by some intrigue or by force and
stratagem. Thenceforth his mind was disturbed and clouded with grief, nor did he to
the time of his death regain composure and happiness’.
After days abandoned to sorrow, when he was labouring, under an infirmity which
was the precursor of death, and the Archbishop (of Rouen) and priests were
performing their office for the confessional purification, they required of him that as a
penitent he should restore the lands which by force or fraud he had wrung from
others, and wash out his sins with tears of repentance, to which he replied,
‘Wretched man that I am ! If I dismember the domains I have acquired, what shall I
have to leave to my sons?’
“ Upon this the ministers of the Lord answered; Your hereditary estates and the
lands which you have justly obtained are enough for your sons; restore the rest, or
else you devote your soul to perdition.’
“ The Earl replied, ‘My sons shall have all. I leave it to them to act mercifully, that I may
obtain mercy.’
Assuming the monastic habit, he then breathed his last, and was buried near his
father at Preaux, his heart being sent to the monastery of Brackley in
Northamptonshire, which he had founded, and there preserved in salt.
William of Malmesbury says of him, that his advice was regarded as though the
oracle of God had been consulted that he was the persuader of peace, the
dissuader of strife, and capable of speedily bringing about whatever he desired by
the power of his eloquence ; that he possessed such mighty influence in England as
to change by his single example the long established modes of dress and diet.
Limiting himself on the score of his health to one meal a day, in imitation of Alexius,
Emperor of Constantinople, the custom was adopted generally by the nobility. In law,
he was the supporter of justice; in war, the insurer of victory; urging his lord the King
to enforce the statutes vigorously, he himself not only respecting those existing, but
proposing new. Ever loyal to his sovereign, he was the stern avenger of treason in
others.
It is a relief to read such a character of a man in these darkest days of feudalism,
imperfect civilization, and demoralizing superstition.
A word or two respecting his children.
The twins, Waleran and Robert, were carefully brought up by King Henry I, from the
time of their father’s death for the King loved him much because in the beginning of
his reign he had greatly aided and encouraged him. On their arriving at the proper
age they received knighthood at his hands, and Waleran was put in possession of
all his father’s domains in France and Normandy, his brother Robert receiving the
earldom of Leicester and the lands and honours in England. Three of their sisters
were given in marriage by Waleran:--Adeline to Hugh, 4th Sire de Montfort-sur-Risle,
Amicia to Hugh de Chateau-neuf in Thimerais; and Albreda (or Aubrey) to William
Louvel or Lupel, son of Ascelin Goel, Lord of Ivri.
Isabel became, according to the chronique scandaleuse of that day, one of the many
mistresses of Henry I., and subsequently married Gilbert de Clare, Earl of
Pembroke. What became of Emma, the eldest born, we know not. According to
Orderic she was betrothed, when only a year old, to Aumari, nephew of William,
Count of Evreux, but from some impediment which occurred the marriage never took
place. She probably died in infancy, or entered a convent. The author of L'Art de
Verifier les Dates, besides Hugh, Earl of Bedford, already mentioned, gives Robert, a
fourth son, whom he calls Dreux, Sire de Beaumont.

THE BEAUMONT TWINS, by David Crouch:
On 5 June 1118 Count Robert I of Meulan died at one of his English residences. His
end was not a happy one: life at King Henry’s court tended to put a burden on the
consciences of its inmates. It would have pleased Count Robert’s old enemy,
Archbishop Anselm, that in his last painful hours it seems to have been the count’s
offences against the Church that haunted him. Henry of Huntingdon, giving a
maliciously gloomy account of the count’s end, describes him as broken and
morose after his wife ran off with a fellow earl. He talks of Robert refusing confession
and the last offices since they were conditional on his restoring the lands he had
taken from the Church and others. Count Robert is supposed to have said that he
would do nothing to lessen his sons’ inheritances, Henry was overdoing the gloom -
it is a characteristic of his writings - but nonetheless there is some confirmation
elsewhere that Count Robert’s end was a hard one. A letter has been preserved that
purports to have been from Archbishop Ralph d’Escures of Canterbury to the count’s
recently bereaved sons. The archbishop’s letter also dwells on the many tears of the
dying count, but says that he was properly confessed, that he repented of his sins
against the Church, and that he was persuaded to make some minor restitutions to
the abbey of La Croix St-Leuffroy. The count’s corpse was carried back to Normandy
and buried in the chapter house of his family’s foundation of St Peter of Preaux, near
his father, Roger de Beaumont, and his uncle, Robert fitz Humphrey. (Preaux Abbey
and it’s tombs are long destroyed)

Robert, Seigneur de Beaumont AKA: Robert, Count de Meulant. AKA: Robert, Earl of
Leicester. AKA: Robert, Seigneur de Pont-Audemer. AKA: Robert, Seigneur de
Brionne. Born: before 1086 in Eure, Normandie, France, son of Roger de Beaumont
and Adeline de Meulant. Married before 1094: Godehild de Tosny, daughter of Raoul
III de Tosny and Isabel de Montfort. Divorced Godehild de Tosny: before 1095.
Married in 1096: Elizabeth=Isabelle de Vermandois, daughter of Hughes, Count de
Vermandois and Adele, Countess de Vermandois; Robert was Elizabeth’s first
husband and she was his second wife. Divorced Elizabeth=Isabelle de Vermandois:
in 1115. Died: in 1118.

FALAISE ROLL of Companions of William the Conqueror
ROBERT DE BEAUMONT. Master Wace (I- 13462) records ‘Rogier li veil cil de
Belmont,’ but in themanuscript in the British museum the name is Robert, which is
correct, since Roger remained in Normandy at the head of the council to assist
Queen Matilda in the government of that duchy. Roger is conceded to have been the
wealthiest, noblest and most trusted of the seigneurs of Normandy. He was the son
of Humphrey de Viellers, grandson of Thurold de Pontaudemer, a descendant of the
kings of Denmark, through Bernard the Dane, the companion of duke Rollo. Lofty as
was his ancestry, he adopted the title of the family of his wife, Adelina, countess of
Meulent, Meulant, Mellent, later Meulan used by his posterity. He contributed sixty
vessels to the fleet of duke William and was represented at Senlac by his son
Robert, whom William of Poitiers and Orderic Vital state was ‘a novice in arms.’
Robert was rewarded with ninety manors in Warwick, Leicester, Wilts and also
Northampton. he and his brother Henry, afterwards earl of Warwick, were among the
barons who reconciled king William and his son, duke Robert Courteheuse, in 1081.
He was known after the death of his mother as count of Meulent and as such in 1082
sat in the French parliament, as a peer of France. With his brother, he espoused the
cause of William Rufus, and after his death that of king Henry, by whom he was
created earl of Leicester. He married Elizabeth, daughter of the count of Vermandois,
by whom he had issue: Emma, born 1102; Waleran and Robert, twins, born 1104,
and Hugh the Poor, afterwards earl of Bedford, and the following other daughters,
Adeline, Amicia, Albreda and Isabel. Robert de Beaumont married first Godehilde,
daughter of Raoul de Toeni II, who bore him no children and from whom he was
separated by 1090. When between fifty and sixty married secondly lady Elizabeth,
who was young, and William de Warren II, earl of Warren and Surrey, supplanted
Robert in her affections, so that she ultimately deserted him, which affected his mind
and hurried him to his death in 1118

More About Count/Earl Robert I De Beaumont:
Burial: Unknown, Abbey of St. Peter, Preaux, Normandy, France
Misc: m. 1) Gonchilde De Conches, separated by 1098
Occupation: Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester
Source 1: Conqueror and his Companions by Planche
Source 2: Royalty for Comm. by Stuart, Gen 143-29
Source 3: Royl.Desc.500 Immigrants, Roberts, pg 429"

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Robert D' Beaumont
Isabel - Elizabeth D' Vermandois
"Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
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Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and Count of Meulan (1049 – 5 June
1118) was a powerful English and French nobleman, revered as one of the wisest
men of his age. Chroniclers speak highly of his eloquence, his learning, and three
kings of England valued his counsel.

He accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066, where his service
earned him more than 91 lordships and manors. When his mother died in 1081,
Robert inherited the title of Count of Meulan in Normandy, also the title of Viscount
Ivry and Lord of Norton. He did homage to Philip I of France for these estates and sat
as French Peer in the Parliament held at Poissy.

At the Battle of Hastings Robert was appointed leader of the infantry on the right wing
of the army.

He and his brother Henry were members of the Royal hunting party in the New
Forest, when William Rufus received his mysterious death wound, 2 August 1100.
He then pledged alligience to William Rufus' brother, Henry I of England, who
created him Earl of Leicester in 1107.

On the death of William Rufus, William, Count of Evreux and Ralph de Conches
made an incursion into Robert's Norman estates, on the pretence that they had
suffered injury through some advice that Robert had given to the King; their raid was
very successful for they collected a vast booty.

According to Henry of Huntingdon, Robert died of shame after "a certain earl carried
off the lady he had espoused, either by some intrigue or by force and stratagem." His
wife Isabella remarried in 1118 to William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey.
[edit] Family and children

He was the eldest son of Roger de Beaumont and Adeline of Meulan, daughter of
Waleran III, Count de Meulan, and an older brother of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of
Warwick.

In 1096 he married (Isabel) Elizabeth de Vermandois, daughter of Hugh Magnus a
younger son of the French king and Adèle of Vermandois. Their children were:

1. Emma de Beaumont (born 1102)
2. Waleran IV de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (born 1104)
3. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104)
4. Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (born c. 1106)
5. Adeline de Beaumont, married two times:
1. Hugh IV of Montfort-sur-Risle;
2. Richard de Granville of Bideford (d. 1147)
6. Aubree de Beaumont, married Hugh II of Château-neuf-Thimerais.
7. Maud de Beaumont, married William Lovel. (b. c. 1102)
8. Isabel de Beaumont, a mistress of King Henry I of England. Married two times:
1. Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke;
2. Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland"


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Robert I De Beaumont - Count\Earl
Elizabeth De Vermandois - Countess
"Elizabeth of Vermandois, or Elisabeth or Isabel de Vermandois (ca. 1081 – 13
February 1131), was a niece of Philip I of France who was twice married to influential
Anglo-Norman magnates.
Elizabeth of Vermandois was the third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of
Vermandois, and as such represented both the Capetian line of her paternal
grandfather Henry I of France, and the Carolingian ancestry of her maternal
grandfather Herbert IV of Vermandois. Her father was a younger brother of Philip I of
France.
[edit] Countess of Leicester

In 1096, while under age (and probably aged 9 or 11), Elizabeth married Robert de
Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester. Meulan was over 35 years her senior, which was an
unusual age difference even for this time period. He was a nobleman of some
significance in France, having inherited lands from his maternal uncle Henry, Count
of Meulan, and had fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 under the command of
his distant kinsman William the Conqueror. For this service, he was awarded
English lands in addition to those in Meulan and Normandy he had inherited.
However, at the time of the marriage, he held no earldom in England while his
younger brother was already styled Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick. Meulan
was a respected advisor to three reigning monarchs: William II of England, Robert
Curthose of Normandy and Philip I of France.

According to Middle Ages custom, brides were often betrothed young - 8 being the
legal age for betrothal and 12 for marriage (for women). The young betrothed wife
would often go to her husband's castle to be raised by his parents or other relatives
and to learn the customs and ways of her husband's family. The actual wedding
would not take place until much later. Some genealogists speculate that the usual
age at which a noble bride could expect the marriage to be consummated would be
14. This is consistent with the date of birth of Elizabeth's first child Emma in 1102
when she would be about 15 to 17.

The marriage produced several children, including most notably two twin sons (born
1104) who both become important noblemen. These men, known to historians of
this period as the Beaumont twins, were Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan
and his younger twin Robert Bossu (the Humpback) or Robert de Beaumont, 2nd
Earl of Leicester. Another notable child of this marriage was Elisabeth or Isabel de
Beaumont, one of the youngest mistresses of Henry I of England and later mother
(by her first marriage) of Richard Strongbow.

William II of England died suddenly in a purported hunting accident, and was hastily
succeeded not by the expected heir but by the youngest brother Henry. This seizure
of the throne led to an abortive invasion by the older brother Duke Robert of
Normandy, followed by an uneasy truce between the brothers. The reprieve was only
temporary, and there was unrest in both England and Normandy for some time
(stirred up by Duke Robert, and by an exiled nobleman Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of
Shrewsbury). Finally, Henry invaded Normandy and in the Battle of Tinchebray
(September 28, 1106) destroyed organized opposition to his takeover of Normandy
and imprisoned his ineffectual older brother for his lifetime. Meulan and his brother
Warwick were apparently supporters of Henry during this entire period, and Meulan
was rewarded with the earldom of Leicester in 1103. By 1107, Meulan was in
possession of substantial lands in three domains. In 1111, he was able to revenge
himself on the attack on his seat Meulan by Louis VI of France by harrying Paris.
[edit] Countess of Surrey

Elizabeth, Countess of Meulan apparently tired of her aging husband at some point
during the marriage. The historian Planche says (1874) that the Countess was
seduced by or fell in love with a younger nobleman, William de Warenne (c. 1071-11
May 1138) himself the thwarted suitor of Edith of Scotland, Queen consort of Henry I
of England. Warenne was said to want a royal bride, and Elizabeth fitted his
requirements, even though she was also another man's wife.

In 1115, the Countess was apparently carried off or abducted by Warenne, which
abduction apparently concealed a long-standing affair. There was some kind of
separation or divorce between Meulan and his wife, which however did not permit
her to marry her lover. The elderly Count of Meulan died, supposedly of chagrin and
mortification in being thus publicly humiliated, in the Abbey of Preaux, Normandy on 5
June 1118, leaving his properties to his two elder sons whom he had carefully
educated.

Elizabeth married, secondly, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, sometime after
the death of her first husband. By him, it is alleged, she already had several children
(all born during her marriage to Meulan). She also had at least one daughter born
while she was living out of wedlock with Warenne (1115-1118). It is unclear whether
this daughter was Ada de Warenne, wife of Henry of Scotland or Gundrede de
Warenne, wife of Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick (her half-brothers' first
cousin).

The later life of Elizabeth de Vermandois is not known. Her sons by her first marriage
appear to have a good relationship with their half-brother William de Warenne, 3rd
Earl of Surrey although on opposing sides for much of the wars between Stephen
and Matilda. Her eldest son Waleran, Count of Meulan was active in supporting the
disinherited heir William Clito, son of Robert Curthose until captured by King Henry.
He was not released until Clito's death without issue in 1128. Her second son
Robert inherited his father's English estates and the earldom of Leicester and
married the heiress of the Fitzosbern counts of Breteuil. Her daughter Isabel
however became a king's concubine or mistress at a young age; it is unclear
whether her mother's own life or her eldest brother's political and personal travails in
this period played any part in this decision. Before her mother died, Isabel had
become wife of Gilbert de Clare, later (1147) Earl of Pembroke, so had adopted a
more conventional life like her mother.
[edit] Children and descendants

During her first marriage (1096-1115) to Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (d 5
June 1118), Elizabeth had 3 sons (including twin elder sons) and 6 daughters:

* Emma de Beaumont (born 1102), was betrothed as an infant to Aumari, nephew of
William, Count of Evreux, but the marriage never took place. She probably died
young, or entered a convent.[1]
* Waleran IV de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (born 1104) married and left issue.
* Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104) married and left issue (his
granddaughter Isabella of Gloucester was the unfortunate first wife of King John.
* Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (born c. 1106) lost his earldom, left issue
* Adeline de Beaumont (b ca 1107), married two times:
o Hugh IV, 4th Lord of Montfort-sur-Risle to whom she was married firstly by her
brother Waleran;
o Richard de Granville of Bideford (d. 1147)
* Aubree (or Alberee) de Beaumont (b ca 1109), married by her brother Waleran to
Hugh II of Châteauneuf-en-Thimerais (possibly son of Hugh I of Châteauneuf-en-
Thimerais and his wife Mabille de Montgomerie, 2nd daughter of Roger de
Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury)
* Maud de Beaumont (b ca 1111), married by her brother Waleran to William Lovel, or
Louvel or Lupel, son of Ascelin Goel, Lord of Ivri.
* Isabel de Beaumont (b Aft. 1102), a mistress of King Henry I of England. Married
two times:
o Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke by whom she was mother of Richard
Strongbow, who invaded Ireland 1170;
o Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland (this marriage is not conclusively
proven)

In her second marriage, to William de Warenne, Elizabeth had three sons and two
daughters (for a total of fourteen children - nine during her first marriage, and five
during her second):

* William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey and Warenne (b. 1119 dspm 1147) whose
daughter Isabelle de Warenne, Countess of Surrey married 1stly
o William, Count of Boulogne (dsp), yr son of King Stephen, and married 2ndly
o Hamelin Plantagenet, an illegitimate half-brother of King Henry II of England by
whom she had issue, later earls of Surrey and Warenne.

* Reginald de Warenne, who inherited his father's property in upper Normandy. He
married Adeline, daughter of William, lord of Wormgay in Norfolk, by whom he had a
son William, whose daughter and sole heir Beatrice married first Dodo, lord Bardolf,
and secondly Hubert de Burgh;

* Ralph de Warenne (dsp)

* Gundrada de Warenne, (Gundred) who married first
o Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick and had issue; second (as his 2nd
wife)
o William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Warenne and Surrey and is most remembered
for expelling king Stephen's garrison from Warwick Castle; and they had issue.

Ada de Warenne (d. ca. 1178), who married Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of
Huntingdon, younger son of King David I of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon by his
marriage to the heiress Matilda or Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (herself great-
niece of William I of England) and had issue. They were parents to Malcolm IV of
Scotland and William I of Scotland and their youngest son, David of Scotland, 8th
Earl of Huntingdon, who was ancestor of all Kings of Scotland since 1292.

External links

* Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700
by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 50-24, 50-25, 53-24, 66-25, 84-25, 88-25, 89-25,
140-24, 170-23 184-4, 215-24
* [2] My Royal Ancestors [Ancestors of Lady Shirley]
* Elizabeth de Vermandois
* Warenne earls in 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
* Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Meulan
* Vermandois arms used by Isabel's descendants"

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Roger De Beaumont - Count
Adeleza De Meulent
"Roger de Beaumont-le-Roger (c. 1015 – 29 November 1094) was son of Humphrey
de Vielles (himself a great-nephew of the Duchess Gunnora of Normandy) and his
wife Albreda de la Haye Auberie. Roger de Beaumont, Lord of Beaumont-le-Roger
and Pont-Audemer, Viscount of Hiesmes, was thus a second cousin once removed
of the Conqueror. Roger was nicknamed Barbatus or La Barbe because he wore a
moustache and beard while the Normans usually were clean shaven. This
peculiarity is recognized in the thirty-second panel of the Bayeux Tapestry where he
is depicted sitting at a feast with Duke William on his left hand, Odo, brother of
William and Bishop of Bayeux, in the centre.

Planché tells us that "he was the noblest, the wealthiest, and the most valiant
seigneur of Normandy, and the greatest and most trusted friend of the Danish
family." There is an explanation for this - as an older cousin who had never rebelled
against the young Duke, he was part of the kinship group of noblemen that William
relied upon in governing Normandy and fighting off frequent rebellion and invasions.
The historian Frank McLynn notes that William relied on relatives descended via his
mother (namely his half-brothers and brothers-in-law) and on relatives descended
from the Duchess Gunnora's sisters, since his own paternal kin had proved
unreliable.

Wace, the 12th century historian, says that "at the time of the invasion of England,
Roger was summoned to the great council at Lillebonne, on account of his wisdom;
but that he did not join in the expedition as he was too far advanced in years."
Although Roger could not fight, he did not hesitate in contributing his share of the
cost, for he provided at his own expense sixty vessels for the conveyance of the
troops across the channel. Furthermore, his eldest son and heir fought bravely at
Hastings as noted in several contemporary records. As a result, Roger's elder sons
were awarded rich lands in England, and both eventually were made English earls
by the sons of the Conqueror.
He married circa 1048 or earlier Adeline of Meulan (ca. 1014-1020 - 1081), daughter
of Waleran III, Count de Meulan and Oda de Conteville, and sister and heiress of a
childless Count of Meulan. Meulan eventually passed to their elder son who became
Count of Meulan in 1081. Their surviving children were:

1. Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (b ca 1049 - 1118)
who succeeded his father in the major part of his lands, and who fought in his first
battle at Hastings.
2. Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick, overshadowed by his elder brother, but
who established a more enduring line of Beaumont earls at Warwick Castle.
3. William de Beaumont (not mentioned in most sources).
4. Alberee de Beaumont, Abbess of Eton.

[edit] Roger de Beaumont in Literature

Roger de Beaumont appears as a minor character (the overlord of the secondary
hero) in Georgette Heyer's historical novel The Conqueror. His family appears little in
the book, but reference is made to Roger's wife and daughters and his eldest son.
[edit] External links

* Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700
by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 50-24, 151-24.
* Beaumont genealogy , to be used with caution (check soc.genealogy.medieval)
* The Conqueror and His Companions: Robert de Beaumont (link now broken)

[edit] Sources

* Edward T. Beaumont, J.P. The Beaumonts in History. A.D. 850-1850. Oxford.
* J.R. Planché. The Conqueror and His Companions. London: Tinsley Brothers,
1874"

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Roger De Beaumont - Count
Adeleza De Meulent
" Notes for Count Roger De Beaumont:
Name variations: Beaumont, Bellemont, Belmont, De Beaumont, De Bellemont, De
Belmont

Roger, Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger (von Redlich, Page 125). AKA: Roger de
Vieilles. AKA: Roger, Seigneur de Pont-Audemer. AKA: Roger ‘a la Barbe.’ Born: circa
1022 Eure, Normandie, France, son of Honfroy, Seigneur de Vielles and Alberee de
La Haie (Stuart, Page 161, Line 220-32). Married before 1046: Adeline de Meulan-
sur-Seine, daughter of Valeran III, Count de Meulan-sur-Seine and Oda de
Conteville. Died: on 29 Nov 1094.
Roger remained in Normandy at the head of the council to assist Queen Matilda in
the government of that duchy. Roger is conceded to have been the wealthiest,
noblest and most trusted of the seigneurs of Normandy. He was the son of
Humphrey de Viellers, grandson of Thurold de Pontaudemer, a descendant of the
kings of Denmark, through Bernard the Dane, the companion of duke Rollo. Lofty as
was his ancestry, he adopted the title of the family of his wife, Adelina, countess of
Meulent, Meulant, Mellent, later Meulan used by his posterity. He contributed sixty
vessels to the fleet of duke William and was represented at Senlac by his son
Robert, whom William of Poitiers and Orderic Vital state was ‘a novice in arms.’

THE CONQUEROR AND HIS COMPANIONS, by J. R. Planche’
Rogier li Veil, cil de Belmont, Assalt Engleis el premier front. Roman de Rou, 1.
13462.
Thus sings the Prebend of Bayeux in direct contradiction, as I have already observed,
of the Archdeacon of Lisieux, who as distinctly asserts that Roger de Beaumont was
left in Normandy, president of the council appointed by the Duke to assist his
Duchess in its government. There is more reason, however, to discredit Wace in this
instance than even in the former one, as Orderic corroborates the statement of the
Archdeacon that it was Robert, the eldest son of Roger de Beaumont, who was the
companion of the Conqueror in 1066, and whom he describes as a novice in arms.
Mr. Taylor, in his translation of the poem, has mentioned also that in the MS. of Wace,
in the British Museum, the name is Robert, though the epithet le Viel is not
appropriate to his then age. Might not le Viel be a clerical error for de Vielles, the
name of Roger’s father, which is latinized into de Vitulis? Roger de Beaumont would
of course have been de Vielles as well as his father. The latinizing of proper names
cannot be too much deplored and deprecated.
Of Roger, Count de Beaumont, it is unanimously recorded that he was the noblest,
the wealthiest, and the most valiant seigneur of Normandy, and the greatest and
most trusted friend of the Danish family. Son of Humphrey de Vielles, and grandson
of Thorold de Pontaudemer, a descendant of the Kings of Denmark, through Bernard
the Dane, a companion of the first Norman Conqueror, Duke Rollo, illustrious as
was such an origin in the eyes of his countrymen, he considered his alliance with
Adelina, Countess of Meulent, sufficiently honourable and important to induce him to
adopt the title of her family in preference to that of his own.
We have already heard of his first great exploit, when, as a young man, in the early
years of Duke William, he defeated the turbulent Roger de Toeni, who with his two
sons were slain in that sanguinary conflict (vide p. 19, ante). Towards the invading
fleet he contributed, according to Taylor’s List, sixty vessels, and being at that time
advanced in years, and selected to superintend the affairs of the duchy, sent his
young son Robert to win his spurs at Senlac.
In that memorable battle he is said to have given proofs of courage and intelligence
beyond his years, and promise of the high reputation he would eventually obtain, and
which won for him the surname of Prudhomme. A certain Norman young soldier,
writes William of Poitou, son of Roger de Bellomont, and nephew and heir of Hugh,
Count of Meulent, by Adelina, his sister, making his first onset in that fight, did what
deserves lasting fame, boldly charging and breaking in upon the enemy with the
troops he commanded in the right wing of the army. His services were rewarded by
ninety manors in Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Wiltshire, and Northamptonshire.
In 1080 he, with his brother Henry, afterwards Earl of Warwick, were amongst the
barons who exerted, themselves to reconcile King William to his son Robert Court-
heuse, and in 1081 he subscribed a charter of confirmation in favour of the Abbey of
Fecamp. This was the last document he signed in the name of Beaumont, for his
mother dying in that year, he thenceforth wrote himself Comte de Meulent, and did
homage to Philip I, King of France, for the lands to which he succeeded in that
kingdom, and in 1082 sat as a Peer of France in a parliament held by the said King
at Poissy.
On the death of the Conqueror, the Comte de Menlent and his brother sided with
William Rufus; their father, Roger de Beaumont, leaving also the ducal court and
retiring to his estates. The late King had given the Castle of Ivri jointly to Roger de
Beaumont and Robert his son; but during the absence of the latter in England,
Robert Court-heuse, having become Duke of Normandy, exchanged, in 1090, that
castle for the Castle of Brionne with Roger de Beaumont, without obtaining the
consent of Robert de Meulent. The latter, having a quarrel with the monks of Bec,
whose monastery was in the territory of Brionne, was greatly angered by this
transaction, and repairing to the Duke at Rouen, boldly demanded of him the
restoration of Ivri. The Duke answered that he had given his, father the Castle of
Brionne for it, which was a fair exchange. The Count replied, "I was no party to that
bargain, and repudiate it; but what your father gave to my father that will I have, or by
Saint Nicaise I will make you repent your conduct to me." The Duke, highly incensed,
had him immediately arrested and imprisoned, and seizing the Castle of Brionne,
gave it into the keeping of Robert, son of Baldwin de Meules. Roger de Beaumont, on
receipt of these tidings, sought the Duke, and with the skill of an old courtier
contrived, to pacify his resentment, and obtain the release of his son and the
restoration of Brionne; but Robert de Meules, who was in charge of it, refused to
surrender it, and the Count de Meulent was obliged to resort to force. Siege was laid
to the castle in regular form, and the garrison stoutly holding out, Gilbert du Pin,
commanding the beleaguering forces, caused arrows, with their steel heads made
red-hot in a furnace, to be shot over the battlements, and which, falling on the roofs of
the buildings within the walls, set them on fire. The conflagration spreading, the
place became no longer tenable, and Brionne remained from that period in the
hands of the Counts of Meulent.
The monks of Bec now found it necessary to patch up their quarrels with the Count,
who behaved generously on the occasion, confirming their privileges and those also
of the Abbey of Preaux, of Jumieges, and St. Vaudrille, remitting certain imports due
to him from the wine-growers of Mantes. I mention these circumstances, which have
no interest for the general reader, only to notice a singular condition the Count
attached to the franchise, namely, that the masters of all boats passing the Castles
of Meulent and Mantes should play on the flageolet as they shot the bridges!
On the departure of Robert Court-heuse for the Crusades, William Rufus, to whom
he had confided the government of Normandy, as a pledge for the repayment of the
money the King had lent to him for the expenses of his expedition, considered it a
good opportunity to recover from France the province of the Vexin. The Count of
Meulent found himself awkwardly situated between the two contending parties. He
owed fealty to both sovereigns: to the King of France for the Comte of Meulent, and to
the King of England for his large estates, both in that country and Normandy. He
decided in favour of the latter, received into his castle the forces of the Red King, and
so opened for him an entrance into France. The war ended without advantage to
either side, and was followed by another between Rufus and Helie de la Fleche,
Comte du Maine. After vainly attempting to reduce the Castle of Dangueul, the King
withdrew from the siege, leaving the Count of Meulent to carry on the operations. On
the 28th April, 1098, He was drawn into an ambush by Count Robert, and , after a
desperate defence, made prisoner, and conducted by him to the King, who was at
Rouen, and who consigned his captive immediately to a dungeon in the great tower,
of that city.
The incidents and results of this campaign are not sufficiently connected with the
personal history of Robert de Meulent to require notice here:
[Continued under his son Robert]

More About Count Roger De Beaumont:
Burial: 1094, Abbey of St. Peter, Preaux, Normandy, France
Misc: Adapted the title of wife's family
Misc.: Nee: Roger De Veilles
Source 1: von Redlich, pg 125
Source 2: Conqueror and his Companions by Planche"

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Humphrey De Viellers - Seigneur
Unknown
"Notes for Seigneur Humphrey De Viellers:
Honfroy, Seigneur de Viellers (Stuart, Page 79, Line 103-33). AKA: Omfroy, Seigneur
de Pont-Audemer. AKA: Omfroy, Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger. Omfroy acquired
the fiefs of Beaumont and Viellers in exchange for the aid he accorded to the Abbey
of Bernay. Born: circa 980 Normandie, France, son of Touroude, Seigneur de Pont-
Audemer and Eva de Crepon (Stuart). Married before 1021: Alberee de La Haie.
Died: on 28 Sep 1044 (ibid).
More About Seigneur Humphrey De Viellers:
Source 1: Royalty for Comm. by Stuart, Gen 103-33
Source 2: Conqueror and his Companions by Planche"

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Turold DE PONTAUDEMER
Wevia DE CREPON
"[Sarah Hnkle #1.FTW]
Progenitor of the powerful feudal family de Beaumont
"MyAncestors came with the Conqueror" by A.J.Camp has the following
information.
#1 Holinshed ,"Chronicles of England , Scotlande and Irelande”" /
1577
# 2 Brompton , "Historiac Anglicanae Scriptures" / 1436
# 3 Duchesne , "Historiae Normannorum" / 1619
# 4 Wace , "Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from the Roman de Rou"/
1837
# 5 Leland , "De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea" / 1715
# 6 "le Tailleur “Chonieques de Normendie" / 1487
# 7 "Falaise Rolls"
#8 Delisle , "Companions of William the Conqueror at the Conquest of
England in 1066
AKA
Turold,Turolf,Turolfus,Turolph,Turolphus,Turauld,Turolpho,Torauld,Tourolfe
,Touronde,Touronne,Thorold, Thurold and Thorolf."

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Torf "The Rich" Baron DE TOURVILLE
Ertemberge de Bricanbert BARTRAM
"Torf, which is a Danish name is probably a variant of Thorolf which means Thor's
Wolf , Thor being the God of Thunder. Places in Normandy named for him. Torfville,
Tourville,Tourneville,Turville Turvile and Turquoville.There were apparently two Torfs
of the same name confused in genealogy namely fatherand son. From G.A.
LaRoque. "Hist. Geneal Maison de Harcourt" Errand is mentioned by LaRoque,the
French historian of this great house, which reads " sire de Herevourt was there also,
riding a very swift horse". They are supported in this conclusion by Le Prevost, as he
favors Anchetil, the father of Errand. The burden of opinion is, however, against this
eminent historian. Turquetil,signeur de Turqueville, and de Tanqueraye, about 1001,
appears in several chapters concerning the abbeys of Fecamp and Bernay. He was
Lord of Neufmarche-en-Lions, governor of the boy Duke, William and was
treacherously assassinated between 1035 and1040 by hirelings of Raoul de Gace.
Turquetil was the second son of Torf the Rich,the son of bernard the Dane.which
latter was governor and regent of Normandy in 912, from wom descended the sires
de Beaumont, comes deMeulent, the barons of Cacelles and Saint-Pare, the lords of
Gournay and Milly,the barons of Neubourg,the vicomtes of Evereux, the Earls of
Leicester,and many other noble French and English houses.Turquetil married
Anceline,sister of Toustain,seigneur de Montfort-sur Risle,and had issue,Anchetil
and Walter de Lescelina who married Beatrice, abbess of Montivilliers,natural
daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, as well as Leceline de Turqueville , thewife
of William, comte (later d'Eu), an illegitimate son on the same Duke. Anchetil was the
first to assume the name of Harcourt from the bourg of Harcourt, near Brionne, and
married Eve de Boessey-le-Chapell, by whom he had sevensons and one daughter.
The eldest was Errand, who predeceased his father and was succeeded by Robert
as head of the house.Jean,Arnoul,Gervais,Yves and Renauld were the other sons.
Errand de Harcourt commanded the archers of Val de Ruel at the battle of Hastings,
but returned to Normandy in 1078 and died soon after. His younger brother,Robert,
who accompanied him to the conquest was the anchestor of this distinguished
family"

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de Tourville TORF- Seigneur
Unknown
"[Sarah Hnkle #1.FTW]
Who succeeded to his fathers vast fortune and was first cousin to William
"Longsword" the second Duke. He is apparently been confounded with his son who
follows."

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Bernard "The DANE'
Sprota (Sprote) DE BOURGOGNE
"[Sarah Hnkle #1.FTW]
AKA Bernard "le Danois"
Founding father of the House of Harcourt What follows in the Harcourt line comes
mainly from the book called "A History of the Family Harcourt " written by William
Harcourt-Bath in 1930 this book was found at the San Diego Public Library,main
branch on "E' Street along with the hand written notes of William Harcourt-Bath in the
Genealogy section on the second floor. I believe this is a one and only book,the
original. I have a copy. Chief counsellor to Rollo in the conquest of Normandy,France.
His descendents followed " William the Conqueror " into England. The family is a
direct descendent of " Charlemagne " and the Trojan Senator Antenor The name
seems to come from "Herr" ( A Teuteonic courtesy title), meaning lord or gentleman
and court meaning hall or mansion. I.E."HerrCourt" . The name has evolved over the
years, Herecourt , Harecourt , Harcourt. Per Crispin and Macary,derived from G.A.La
Roque,Hist. Geneal Maison de Harcourt the name derives from the bourg of
Harcourt, near Brionne,France. Descendents include Sires de Beaumont,comtes de
Meulant,the barons of Cacelles and Saint-Pare,the Lords of Gournay and Milly,the
barons of Neubourg,the viacomtes of Evereux andthe Earls of Leicester.AKA Bernard
"le Danois" Founding father of the Houseof Harcourt What follows in the Harcourt line
comes mainly from the book called " A History of the Family Harcourt " written by
William Harcourt-Bath in 1930. I have a copy. Chief counsellor to Rollo in the
conquest of Normandy,France.Rollo's wife and Bernard's wife are sisters. His
descendents followed "William the Conqueror " into England. The family is a direct
descendent of "Charlemagne " and the Trojan Senator Antenor The name seems to
come from "Herr" ( A Teuteonic courtesy title), meaning lord or gentleman and court
meaning hall or mansion. I.E."HerrCourt" . The name has evolved over the years,
Herecourt , Harecourt , Harcourt. From G.A. LaRoque. "Hist. Geneal Maison de
Harcourt" Errand is mentioned by LaRoque,the French historian of this great house,
which reads " sire de Herevourt was there also,riding a very swift horse". They are
supported in this conclusion by Le Prevost, as he favors Anchetil, the father of
Errand. The burden of opinion is, however, against this eminent historian. Turquetil,
signeur de Turqueville, and de Tanqueraye, about 1001, appears in several chapters
concerning the abbeys of Fecamp and Bernay. He wasLord of Neufmarche-en-
Lions, governor of the boy Duke, William and was treacherously assassinated
between 1035 and1040 by hirelings of Raoul de Gace. Turquetil was the second son
of Torf the Rich,the son of bernard the Dane.which latter was governor and regent of
Normandy in 912, from wom descended the sires de Beaumont, comes deMeulent,
the barons of Cacelles and Saint-Pare, the lords of Gournay and Milly,the barons of
Neubourg,the vicomtes of Evereux, theEarls of Leicester, and many other noble
French and English houses.Turquetilmarried Anceline,sister of Toustain,seigneur
de Montfort-sur Risle,and had issue,Anchetil and Walter de Lescelina who married
Beatrice, abbess of Montivilliers,natural daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, as
well as Leceline de Turqueville , the wife of William, comte (later d'Eu), an illegitimate
sonon the same Duke. Anchetil was the first to assume the name of Harcourt
fromthe bourg of Harcourt, near Brionne, and married Eve de Boessey-le-Chapell, by
whom he had seven sons and one daughter. The eldest was Errand, who
predeceased his father and was succeeded by Robert as head of the house.Jean,
Arnoul,Gervais,Yves and Renauld were the other sons. Errand de Harcourt
commanded the archers of Val de Ruel atthe battle of Hastings, but returned to
Normandy in 1078 and died soon after. His younger brother,Robert, who
accompanied him to the conquest was the anchestor of this disti"

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Humphrey De Viellers
Aubreye DE LA HAIE
"Humphrey (or Onfroi or Umfrid) of Vieilles[1] (died c. 1050) was the first holder of the
"grand honneur" of Beaumont-le-Roger, one of the most important groups of
domains in eastern Normandy[2] and the founder of the House of Beaumont.

His early life and origins are the subject of much discussion. He was the grandson
of Torf (or Turolf), who some historians identify with Turstin le Riche, the father-in-law
of Robert the Dane, and by others with an ancestor of the lords of Harcourt[3].
Whichever is the better hypothesis, we can be sure Humphrey descended from a
Scandinavian Viking family.

Besides Beaumont-le-Roger, he had lands dispersed through the whole of
Normandy, in Cotentin, in Hiémois, in the Pays d'Auge, in Basse Seine (Vatteville-la-
Rue), in Évrecin (Normanville) and in Vexin normand (Bouafles). These lands
originated in the favour of the dukes Richard II and Robert II, from confiscated church
lands. The "honneur" of Beaumont was, for example, constituted from the remains of
the lands of the abbey of Bernay[4]. On the other hand, the possessions around Pont-
Audemer came to him by family inheritance.

In 1034, he 'founded' (or, rather, restored) the monastery at Préaux, a few kilometres
from Pont-Audemer, with monks from the Saint-Wandrille.

During the minority of Duke William the Bastard, Roger I of Tosny, holder of the
"honneur" of Conches, attacked Humphrey's domains. But around 1040, Humphrey's
son, Roger de Beumont, met and defeated Roger in battle, during which Roger was
killed.
[edit] Family and descendants

His known children:

* Robert, the elder, assassinated by Roger de Clères[5] ;
* Roger de Beaumont, known as le Barbu († 1094), who succeeded his father.

Two other possible children :

* Guillaume de Beaumont, monk at the abbaye Saint-Pierre de Préaux
* Dumelme de Vieilles, monk at the abbaye Saint-Léger de Préaux.

[edit] Notes and references

1. ^ Vieilles is the name of a former village, now merged with Beaumont-le-Roger
2. ^ Pierre Bauduin, La première Normandie (Xe-XIe siècles), Presses Universitaires
de Caen, 2004, p.216-217. Among the other grands honneurs of the Pays d'Ouche,
were those of Breteuil and of Conches
3. ^ William of Jumièges reports that this Turolf was the brother of Turquetil, the first
lord of Harcourt, and the uncle of Ansketil de Harcourt. The archaeologist Jacques Le
Maho supports Torf's identification with Turstin
4. ^ Veronica Gazeau, Monachisme et aristocratie au XIe siècle : l'exemple de la
famille de Beaumont,, PhD thesis, University of Caen, 1986-1987 (dactyl.), p.67-73.
The abbot of Bernay, Raoul, parent of Humphrey, would have entrusted to him
between 1027 and 1040, part of the heritage of his monastery. Like other lords of the
beginning of the 11th century, like the family of Bellême, he increased the family's
power by recovering or winning of ecclesiastical lands
5. ^ Orderic Vitalis, History of Normandy, Éd. Guizot, 1826, vol. III, livre VIII, p. 373.
Charpillon et Caresme, Dictionnaire historique des communes de l'Eure, vol I, 1879,
art. Beaumont-le-Roger

[edit] Sources

* (French) Pierre Bauduin, La première Normandie (Xe-XIe siècles), Presses
Universitaires de Caen, 2004
* (French) Véronique Gazeau, Monachisme et aristocratie au XIe siècle : l'exemple
de la famille de Beaumont, doctoral thesis, Université de Caen, 1986-1987 (dactyl.)
* Seigneurs de Beaumont-le-Roger on Medieval Lands"

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