I34932: ROBERT II de Montgomery de BELLEME 3rd Earl of Shrewbury (1052

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Aka: Robert II de Montgomery DE BELLEME. Robert de Belleme, 3rd Earl of Shrewbury (1052/6-aft. 1131) forfeited his honours in 1112. Complete Peerage, Vol. XI, pp. 682-97.

"In 1642, King Charles I described the view from Castle Walk, in Bridgnorth, as 'the finest in my domain'. The castle, built on a promontory commanding the river Severn and the surrounding landscape, was certainly dramatically situated. And even its destruction by the besieging parliamentary forces in 1646, leaving the main keep with its distinctive lean, only added to the impact of the setting.

The castle was founded in 1101 by Robert de Belleme, who subsequently became Earl of Shrewsbury. Time Team historian Robin Bush said of him: 'We've come across many unpleasant characters on Time Team over the years but I think he takes the biscuit as the nastiest. He would take captives and refuse to ransom them, so that he could have the pleasure of torturing them to death. He would impale men and women on hooks. He starved 300 prisoners to death over Lent. And the worst thing of all was he had as a hostage his godson, a little lad, and because the child's father had displeased him he gouged out the child's eyes with his own bare fingernails.'

The siege castle and sieges

Robert de Belleme held the castle for barely a year before Henry I – against whom de Belleme had started plotting – seized it from him after a three-month siege. A siege castle – a huge earthwork from which Henry's forces could fire their catapults and other weapons into the castle – was constructed on the south-west side of the Severn valley in 1102. De Belleme was imprisoned for the rest of his life following his defeat. (The siege castle earthworks can still be climbed across the river from Bridgnorth Castle. Pan Pudding Hill, as it is known today, is where Time Team brought in a re-enactment society to demonstrate the use of the perrier, a medieval siege catapult.)

The castle was then taken by Hugh de Mortimer during the civil strife between the followers of Stephen and Matilda from 1135 to 1154. He was dislodged following a siege in 1155, when Henry I's siege castle was again used by the besiegers – as it was in later sieges during the Barons' Revolt in 1321 and the English Civil War in 1646."

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Robert II Alencon b: ABT 1052 in of Mortaigne, S.Mnch, France

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aka: Marte

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F Ann Sophrona MONZINGO (AFN:1PT1-B7C) Born: Abt 1840 Place: of Houston Co., Georgia

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3 Benjamin Lamar Sandridge b: February 5, 1830 d: October 16, 1905 Yazoo Co, MS +Lucy Brumfield b: Abt 1832 m: in Yazoo Co, MS. src: Shirley Martin Chandler.

Nick probably son by a first wife.

Myrtis SANDIDGE b: 1874 d: 1940 + Thomas D. KIRK b: 26 FEB 1877 d: 29 JAN 1945

My Southern Family

ROBERT II de Montgomery de BELLEME 3rd Earl of Shrewbury

1052 - 1119

ID Number: I34932

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Martha BRYANT

12 Jan 1754 - ____

ID Number: I399

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Martin W. GENTRY

28 Jun 1823 - ____

ID Number: I51452

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Rebecca GRAVES

25 Sep 1630 - 8 Oct 1664

ID Number: I95515

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Miriam HARDING

ABT 1775 - ____

ID Number: I82911

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Ann Sophrona MONZINGO

ABT 1840 - ____

ID Number: I97885

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William D. PENDLETON

30 Oct 1830 - 14 Feb 1920

ID Number: I4863

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Thomas RICHARDSON

ABT 1758 - ____

ID Number: I47536

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Benjamin Lamar SANDIDGE

5 Feb 1830 - 16 Oct 1905

ID Number: I56819

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Elizabeth SMITH

ABT 1740 - ____

ID Number: I16077

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