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[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]

ROGER DE BEAUMONT, SIRE DE PONTEAUDEMER (Humphrey de Veulles
..., Touroude ..., Torf), born about 1010, succeeded to the
family estates in Normandy, as Sire du Ponteaudemer, Seigneur
de Veulles, Pre'aux, Torville, and du Ponteaitorf, and Seigneur
de Beaumont (or Bellomont), by which last name he came to be
generally described. By his marriage he greatly increased the
possessions and prestige of the family, and he rose to be 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 Pre'aux, of which late in life he became a monk; and dying
in 1094 at advanced age, he was buried in this monastery at
Ponteaudemer, Normandy. (P) He married about 1040, ADELINE DE
MEULLANT, daughter and eventually sole heiress of Waleran,
Comte de Meullant, a great feudal nobleman of France. She died
in 1081. (P) Children .... [see under their names]."
--- J Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy*, Boston, 1914,
p 4-5

Roger de BEAUMONT was born about 1010 in "of" Pont Audemer, N,
France. IGI has abt 1022. So does Roderick W Stuart, *Royalty
for Commoners*, 2nd edn, 1992, p 161 (lin 220) He died in
1094. OR: Roger de BELLOMONT
"The same thing is true of Beaumont [i.e., the name "may well
be Norman or at
least French in origin".] There was a Roger de Beaumont
recorded in the Domesday Book as holding Sturminster Marshal in
Dorset, and this Roger certainly took his name from Beaumont in
Normandy. From Roger descended the Counts of Meulan, the old
Earls of Leicester, and the old Earls of
Warwick."
--- Leslie Gilbert Pine, *They Came with the Conqueror, A
study of the modern
descendants of the Normans", London (Evans Brothers Ltd) 1954,
p 106-107

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