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'''From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia''' Robert de Beaumont wa s a powerful English and French nobleman, revered as one of the wises t men of his age. Chroniclers speak highly of his eloquence, his learn ing, and three kings of England valued his counsel. He accompanied Wi lliam the Conqueror to England in 1066, where his service earned him m ore than 91 lordships and manors. When his mother died in 1081, Rober t inherited the title of Count of Meulan in Normandy, also the title o f Viscount Ivry and Lord of Norton. He did homage to Philip I of Franc e for these estates and sat as French Peer in the Parliament held at P oissy. At the Battle of Hastings Robert was appointed leader of the i nfantry on the right wing of the army. He and his brother Henry wer e members of the Royal hunting party in the New Forest, when William R ufus received his mysterious death wound, 2 August 1100. He then pledg ed alligience to William Rufus' brother, Henry I of England, who creat ed him Earl of Leicester in 1107. On the death of William Rufus, Will iam, Count of Evreux and Ralph de Conches made an incursion into Rober t's Norman estates, on the pretence that they had suffered injury thro ugh some advice that Robert had given to the King; their raid was ver y successful for they collected a vast booty. According to Henry of H untingdon, Robert died of shame after "a certain earl carried off th e lady he had espoused, either by some intrigue or by force and strata gem." His wife Isabella remarried in 1118 to William de Warenne, 2nd E arl of Surrey. '''Family and children''' He was the eldest son of Ro ger de Beaumont and Adeline of Meulan, daughter of Waleran III, Coun t de Meulan, and an older brother of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Wa rwick. In 1096 he married (Isabel) Elizabeth de Vermandois, daughte r of Hugh Magnus a younger son of the French king and Adèle of Verman dois. Their children were: Emma de Beaumont (born 1102) Waleran IV d e Beaumont, Count of Meulan (born 1104) Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Ear l of Leicester (born 1104) Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (bor n c. 1106) Adeline de Beaumont, married two times: Hugh IV of Montfo rt-sur-Risle; Richard de Granville of Bideford (d. 1147) Aubree de B eaumont, married Hugh II of Château-neuf-Thimerais. Maud de Beaumont , married William Lovel. (b. c. 1102) Isabel de Beaumont, a mistres s of King Henry I of England. Married two times: Gilbert de Clare, 1s t Earl of Pembroke; Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland '''S ources''' Edward T. Beaumont, J.P. The Beaumonts in History. A.D. 850 -1850. Oxford. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.ht m ROBERT de Beaumont-le-Roger, son of ROGER de Vieilles Seigneur de B eaumont-le-Roger & his wife Adeline de Meulan ([1046]-5 or 6 Jun 1118 , bur Préaux, monastery of Saint-Pierre [1]). Guillaume of Jumiège s records that “Rogerius de Bellomonte” married “Adelinam, Waler anni comitis Mellenti filiam“, by whom he had “duos filios Robertu m et Henricum... postea comites”, and that Robert succeeded “pos t Hugonem avunculum suum comes Mellentis” [2]. Orderic Vitalis name s “...Rodbertus tiro Rogerii de Bellomonte filius...” among thos e who took part in the battle of Hastings [3]. He was rewarded by Will iam I King of England with the grant of lands, mainly in Warwickshir e and Leicestershire. He succeeded his mother's family in 1081 as Comt e de Meulan. Orderic Vitalis names “Rodbertum et Henricum” as th e heirs of “Rogerius... de Bellomonte”, adding that Robert inherit ed “comitatum de Mellento in pago Vilcasino hereditario jure post Hu gonem Adelinæ matris suæ fratrem” and possessed “in Anglia comit atum Legecestriæ” which he was granted by King Henry I [4]. “Roge rius et filii mei Robertus et Henricus” donated “decimam tocius Br otonie” to Saint-Wandrille by charter dated 13 Jan 1086 [5]. Domesda y Book records “the count of Meulan” holding numerous properties i n Warwickshire [6]. "Rogerus de Bellomonte" founded la Sainte-Trinit