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Robert "le Bossu" [twin] Earl of Leicester

Male 1104 - 1168  (64 years)


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  • Name Robert "le Bossu" [twin] Earl of Leicester   [1
    Birth 1104  Meulan, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    AFN 8HRJ-6W 
    Name Robert "le Goczen" [twin]  [1
    Name Robert [twin]  [2
    UID 483C929A22A24DE5AB75217A63BAACA7D1DB 
    Death 5 Apr 1168  [3
    Burial Saint Mary de Pré Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I23038  Master
    Last Modified 15 Jan 2015 

    Father Robert Earl of Leicester,   b. Abt 1049, Meulan, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jun 1118 (Age 69 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother Elizabeth of Vermandois   d. 13 Feb 1131 
    Relationship Natural 
    Marriage Abt 1096  [4
    Divorce 1115 
    Family ID F6017  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Amice de Montfort,   b. 1104, , , Bretagne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Nov 1120  [5
    Children 
     1. Isabel of Leicester   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Countess of Gloucester Hawise of Leicester   d. 24 Apr 1197
    +3. Margaret of Leicester,   b. Cal 1125   d. Aft 1185 (Age 61 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     4. Robert "és Blanchemains" de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester,   b. Bef 1135, , Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Aug 1190, , Durazzo, Albania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
    Family ID F6016  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2016 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1104 - Meulan, Île-de-France, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Saint Mary de Pré Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • NAME: Shown as "Robert de BEAUMONT" in 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 5 p. 127, 688; amended to just "Robert" in 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 14 p. 309 [ESSEX: p. 127 line 8], p. 340 [GLOUCESTER: p. 688 line 16].

      KINSHIP: Younger son.
      KINSHIP: Twin of Waleran de BEAUMONT, Count of Meulan.

      OFFICE: Steward of England; and of Normandy.
      OFFICE: Justiciar until death in 1168; Viceroy 1158-1163/1164 and 1165.

      HONORS: Knighted 1122.
      TITLES: Succeeded father, in 1118 as Earl of Leicester, title created 1107 ?.

      PROPERTY: Founded St. Mary de Pre at Leicester 1143; Abbey of Garendon; Priory of Lusfield; the monastery of Nuneaton; and the hospital of Brackley.
      PROPERTY: Through marriage acquired part of FitzOsbern inheritance in Normandy and England.

      BURIAL: Place> Probably St. Mary de Pré.

  • Sources 
    1. [S701] Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (Royal Ancestry Series. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), vol. 7 p. 527, FHL book 942 D5rdm; FHL book 942 D5rdm.

    2. [S701] Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (Royal Ancestry Series. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), vol. 5 p. 127, 688; vol. 14 p. 309 [ESSEX], p. 340 [GLOUCESTER], FHL book 942 D5rdm; FHL book 942 D5rdm.

    3. [S701] Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (Royal Ancestry Series. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), vol. 4 appndx. H chart III, FHL book 942 D5rdm; FHL book 942 D5rdm.

    4. [S707] Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, (7th edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, c1992), p. 52 line 50:24, p. 58 line 53:24, p. 123 line 140:24, p. 124 line 141:24, FHL book 974 D2w 1992; FHL book 974 D2w 1992.

    5. [S707] Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, (7th edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, c1992), p. 58 line 53:25, FHL book 974 D2w 1992; FHL book 974 D2w 1992.