Roger BEAUMONT, COUNT OF BEAUMONT SIR
Son of Humphrey DE VIELLES, Grandson of Thorold DE PONTAUDEMER, adescendent of Kings of Denmark through Bernard The Dane. Lord of Pont Audemer. Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints. Roger de Beaumont succeeded to the family estates in Normandy, as Sire de Ponteaudemer, Seigneur de Veulles, Preaux, Torville, and du Ponteautorf and Seigneur de Beaumont (or Bellemont), by which last name he came to be generally described. By marriage he greatly increased his possessions and prestige of the family and he rose to become one of the most powerful feudal noblemen of his age in Normandy. When William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, Roger de Beaumont furnished sixty armed vessels for the fleet and was left in charge of the government of Normandy when the Conqueror started on the expedition. He munificently endowed the Abbey of Preux of which in late life he became a monk. He was buried in this monastery in Pontaudemer, Normandy, France.
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Created Earl of Leicester in 1102. Count de Meulent, Lord of Brionne Point-Andewer, Beaumont. Viscount Ivry, Earl of Meullent. Came toEngland in 1066. Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints. He accompanied William the Conqueror in the invasion of England in 1066 greatly distinguished himself at the Battle of Hastings, was rewarded with vast possessions in England, reciving ninety-one great lordships or manors, mostly in Warwickshire. Upon the death of his mother in 1081, he became Comte de Meullant in France and about 1108 he was probably created Earl of Leicester in England by King Henry I.
Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints. He succeeded to his father's estates in Ponteaudemer, etc. in Normandy where he normally resided. He feceived , however, from William the Conqueror grants of treat estates in Warwickshire, England, where he built the famous Warwick Castle, in which in 1078 he was appointed Constable by the Conqueror, and in 1080 he was appointed Baron of the Exchewuer of Normandy. About 1090 he was appointed Earl of Warwick by William II. He and his descendants permanently adopted Newburgh as a family surname.
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She was the abbess of Etone in Normandy.
He married Adeline Adeliza Mellent, Countess Mellent Lady 1040 . Adeline Adeliza Mellent, Countess Mellent Lady was born at Pontaudemer, Normandy, France Abt 1014 daughter of Waleran Mellent, Count of Mellent Sir and Ode Conteville .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Robert II of Meulan Viscount Earl of Ivry Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester Sir
born 1040.
Henri 1st Earl Warwick Newberg Beaumont
born 1045.
William Beaumont
born Abt 1047.
Aubreye Beaumont
born Abt 1049.
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Roger Beaumont, Count of Beaumont Sir died 29 Nov 1094 at St. Pierre, Pont Audemer, Normandy, France .
Adeline Adeliza Mellent, Countess Mellent Lady died 8 Apr 1081 .