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Individual Record for: Roger DE BEAUMONT (male)

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bulkeley.txt

Notes:

He succeeded to the family estates in Normandy, as Sire du Ponteaudemer, S eigneur de Veulles, Pre'aux, Torville, and du Ponteaitorf, and Seigne ur de Beaumont-le-Roger (or Bellomont, by which last name he came to be ge nerally described), Brionne, and Vatteville. By his marriage he greatly in creased the possessions and prestige of the family, and he rose to be o ne of the most powerful feudal noblemen of his age in Normandy. He was al so Comte de Meulan j.u., When William the Conqueror invaded England in 106 6, Roger de Beaumont furnished sixty armed vessels for the fleet and was l eft in charge of the government of Normandy when the Conqueror start ed on the expedition. He munificently endowed the Abbey of Pre'aux, of whi ch late in life he became a monk; and dying in 1094 at advanced age, he w as buried in this monastery at

From Roger descended the Counts of Meulan, the old Earls of Leicester, a nd the old Earls of Warwick.

Notes Source: bulkeley.txt

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