Family of Robert + of BEAUMONT and Isabel + of VERMANDOIS

Husband:	Robert + of BEAUMONT (1050-1118)
Wife:	Isabel + of VERMANDOIS (1085-1131)
Children:	Isabel + of BEAUMONT (1102-1172)
	Robert + of BEAUMONT (1104-1168)
	Waleran IV + of BEAUMONT (1104-1166)
	Alice + of BEAUMONT (1111-1191)
Status:	Divorced
Marriage	1096	France1

Husband: Robert + of BEAUMONT

Wife: Isabel + of VERMANDOIS

Name:	Isabel + of VERMANDOIS
Sex:	Female
Father:	Hugh + of FRANCE (1057-1102)
Mother:	-
Birth	1085	Valois, France
Occupation		Countess of Vermandois
Title		Countess of Vermandois
Death	13 Feb 1131 (age 45-46)	England

Child 1: Isabel + of BEAUMONT

Child 2: Robert + of BEAUMONT

Child 3: Waleran IV + of BEAUMONT

Name:	Waleran IV + of BEAUMONT
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Agnes + of MONTFORT (1122-1181)
Birth	1104	Meulan, Ile de France, France
Occupation		Count of Meulan
Title		Count of Meulan
Death	10 Apr 1166 (age 61-62)	Abbey Preaux, Haute-Normandie, France

Child 4: Alice + of BEAUMONT

Name:	Alice + of BEAUMONT
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Hugh II + (1092- )
Birth	1111	Hinckley, Leicestershire, England
Death	11 Jul 1191 (age 79-80)	Reims, Champagne, France

Note on Husband: Robert + of BEAUMONT

Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (between 1040 and 1050 – 5 June 1118) was a powerful English and French nobleman, revered as one of the wisest men of his age. Chroniclers speak highly of his eloquence, his learning, and three kings of England valued his counsel.

 

He accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066, where his service earned him more than 91 lordships and manors. When his mother died in 1081, Robert inherited the title of Count of Meulan in Normandy, also the title of Viscount Ivry and Lord of Norton. He did homage to Philip I of France for these estates and sat as French Peer in the Parliament held at Poissy.

 

At the Battle of Hastings Robert was appointed leader of the infantry on the right wing of the army.

 

He and his brother Henry were members of the Royal hunting party in the New Forest, when William Rufus received his mysterious death wound, 2 August 1100. He then pledged alligience to William Rufus' brother, Henry I of England, who created him Earl of Leicester in 1107.

 

On the death of William Rufus, William, Count of Evreux and Ralph de Conches made an incursion into Robert's Norman estates, on the pretence that they had suffered injury through some advice that Robert had given to the King; their raid was very successful for they collected a vast booty.

 

According to Henry of Huntingdon, Robert died of shame after "a certain earl carried off the lady he had espoused, either by some intrigue or by force and stratagem." His wife Isabella remarried in 1118 to William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey.

 

[edit] Family and childrenHe was the eldest son of Roger de Beaumont and Adeline of Meulan, daughter of Waleran III, Count de Meulan, and an older brother of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick.

 

In 1096 he married (Isabel) Elizabeth de Vermandois, daughter of Hugh Magnus a younger son of the French king and Adele of Vermandois. Their children were:

 

1.Emma de Beaumont (born 1102)

2.Waleran IV de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (born 1104)

3.Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104)

4.Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (born c. 1106)

5.Adeline de Beaumont, married two times:

1.Hugh IV of Montfort-sur-Risle;

2.Richard de Granville of Bideford (d. 1147)

6.Aubree de Beaumont, married Hugh II of Château-neuf-Thimerais.

7.Maud de Beaumont, married William Lovel. (b. c. 1102)

8.Isabel de Beaumont, a mistress of King Henry I of England. Married two times:

1.Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke;

2.Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland

Sources

1	"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).