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Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (c. 1040/1050 – 5 June 1118), also known as Robert of Meulan, was a powerful Norman nobleman, one of the very few proven Companions of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, and was revered as one of the wisest men of his age. Chroniclers spoke highly of ...
Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (c. 1142–1207), French nobleman; Robert Beaumont (Master of Trinity College) (died 1567), English educator; Bob Beaumont (1932–2011), American automobile manufacturer; Sir Robert Beaumont, character in the 1996 American film The Ghost and the Darkness; Robert Beaumont (essayist)
Robert was the son of Amicia de Gael and Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, [2] a staunch supporter of Henry II, and he inherited from his father large estates in England and Normandy. When the younger Henry revolted in April 1173, Robert went to his castle at Breteuil in Normandy.
Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester, and Elizabeth de Vermandois A Chronicle of England - Page 167 - Becket Forbids the Earl of Leceister to Pass Sentence on Him.jpg Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155–1168.
His son Robert de Beaumont, comte de Meulan, who commanded the Norman right wing at Hastings, became the first Earl of Leicester. His brother Henri de Beaumont was created Earl of Warwick . During Stephen 's reign, the twins Galéran and Robert were powerful allies to the king, and as a reward Galéran (already comte de Meulan ) was made Earl ...
They had no children, and Robert's death in 1204 brought the end of the Beaumont male line. In the year of his death, Normandy was lost to the French; Earl Robert attempted to come to an independent arrangement with King Philip of France, in which he would hold his land in Normandy as a liege-vassal of the Kings of France, and his lands in ...
Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (c. 1142 – 1204, [1] Poitiers, France), was the son of Waleran IV de Beaumont [2] and Agnes de Montfort. Family and children
The priory was initially founded by Robert de Beaumont and Gervase Paganell in 1153 at Kintbury in Berkshire as a daughter house of Fontevraud Abbey in France. Soon afterwards, in around 1155 the foundation was moved to Etone (or Eaton) in Warwickshire, which subsequently became known as Nuneaton. [1] [2]