Robert "le Bossu" [twin] Earl of Leicester

1104 - 1168  (64 years)

• Name	Robert "le Bossu" [twin] Earl of Leicester   [1]
  Birth	1104	Meulan, Île-de-France, France
  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
  Person ID	I23038	Master
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Robert Earl of Leicester,   b. Abt 1049, Meulan, Île-de-France, France d. 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
  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 d. 31 Aug 1190, , Durazzo, Albania (Age 55 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F6016	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1104 - Meulan, Île-de-France, France Burial - - Saint Mary de Pré Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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

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