2nd Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, II

1104 - 1168  (64 years)

• Name	Robert de Beaumont  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	2nd Earl of Leicester
  Suffix	II
  Birth	1104	Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  	Robert and his twin, Waleran, were adopted into the royal household shortly after their father's death in June 1118
  Gender	Male
  Kinfolk of Note	Direct Ancestor of Myrtle Clarisse Sanderson
  _MILT	1139  [3]
  	Robert supported King Stephen in the English Civil War.
  _ELEC	1155  [3]
  	Chief Justiciar of England
  Religion	1164  [2, 3]
  	Robert worked to reconcile Henry II and Archbishop Thomas a Becket during their famous dispute
  _ORDI	97th great grandson of Adam and Eve
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  Death	5 Apr 1168	Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I20004	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	1st Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, I,   b. 1046, Beaumont, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 5 Jun 1118, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Countess of Leicester Isabel de Vermandois,   b. 1085, Basse-Normandie, France d. 13 Feb 1131, Sens, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France (Age 46 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1096	Leicestershire, England   [4]
  	Sir Robert de Beaumont, described as being "the wisest man in his time between London and Jerusalem", and aged over fifty was determined to marry Isabel, aged about eleven
  Marriage End	1115  [4]
  	Isabel was either carried away or willingly abducted by William de Warrene, revealing they had been lovers for some time.
  Family ID	F2658	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Countess Leicester Lady Amice Uta Waer de Montfort,   b. 1100, Norfolk, England d. 1168, Leicestershire, England (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	Nov 1120	Bretagne, France   [3]
  Children	1. 3rd Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, III,   b. 1135, Leicester, Leicestershire, England d. 31 Aug 1190, Greece (Age 55 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F7393	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1104 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England Marriage - Nov 1120 - Bretagne, France Death - 5 Apr 1168 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England Burial - - Leicester, Leicestershire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S874] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;). Birth date: 1104 Birth place: Normandy, of Normandy, France Death date: 5 Apr 1168 Death place: St Mary's De Pre, Leicester, Leics, England [S251] Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S806] Wikipedia: Robert de Beaumont II, Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155–1168. The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont,_2nd_Earl_of_Leicester [S810] Wikipedia: Elizabeth of Vermandois, Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Leicester. Elizabeth of Vermandois, or Elisabeth or Isabel de Vermandois (c. 1085 – 1131), was the third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois,[1] 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.[2] As the wife of two Anglo-Norman magnates, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, she is the ancestress of hundreds of well-known families down to the present time.[3] She is the ancestress of all Scottish rulers including and after her grandson Malcolm IV and all English rulers starting with Henry IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Vermandois,_Countess_of_Leicester