(Earl) Robert III DE BEAUMONT 
(Earl) Robert III was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, ENGLAND. (Earl) Robert III's father was (Lord) Robert II DE BEAUMONT and his mother was (Contesse) Amice DE MONTFORT. His paternal grandparents were (Earl) Robert I DE BEAUMONT and Isabel de Crepi DE VERMANDOIS; his maternal grandparents were (Earl) Ralph DE GAEL and Emma FITZ OSBORNE. He was an only child. He died on August 31st, 1190 in Durazzo, GREECE.General Notes
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Robert, surnamed Blanchmaines, from having white hands, as 3rd earl, who, adhering to Prince Henry in the 19th of Henry II in his rebellion, incurred the high displeasure of that Monarch. The king commanding that his town of Leicester should be laid waste, it was besieged and the greater part burnt; the inhabitants having permission for £300 to move whither they pleased. He was received, however, into royal favour in four years afterwards (1177), and had restoration of all his lands and castles save the castle of Montsorel, in the co. of Leicester, and Pacey in Normandy; but surviving King Henry, he stood in such favour with Richard I that those castles were likewise restored to him, and he was appointed to carry one of the swords of state at that monarch's coronation. His lordship m. Patronil, dau. of Hugh de Grentemesnil, with whom he had the whole honour of Hinkley, and stewardship of England, and had issue, Robert FitzParnel, his successor; Roger, bishop of St. Andrews, in Scotland; William, founder of the hospital of St. Leonards, at Leicester; Amicia, m. to Simon de Montfort, who, after the earldom of Leicester expired with the male line of the Bellomonts, was created Earl of Leicester by King John; Margaret, m. to Sayer de Quincy. The earl d. in his return from Jerusalem at Duras in Greece anno 1189, and was s. by his son, Robert, surnamed FitzParnel. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 42, Bellomont, Earls of Leicester]
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- b.~ 0980 in Pont Audemer, Eure, Normandy, FRANCE d.28 Sep 1044 in Vieilles Landes, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, FRANCE
- b.~ 1022 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, FRANCE d.~ 1094 in Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, FRANCE (as a monk)
- b.~ 0984 in Forest of Brotonne, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, FRANCE d.20 Sep 1045
- b.~ 1046 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, FRANCE d.05 Jun 1118 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, FRANCE
- b.~ 0990 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, FRANCE d.08 Oct 1069
- b.~ 1014 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, FRANCE d.1081 in Sturminster Marshal, Dorsetshire, ENGLAND
- b.~ 0990 in Conteville, Eure, Normandy, FRANCE d.> 1014
- b.1104 in Leicester, Leicestershire, ENGLAND d.05 Apr 1168 in Leicester, Leicestershire, ENGLAND
- b.23 Apr 1008 in Kiev, UKRAINE d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry-aux-Loges, FRANCE
- b.~ 0983 in Toulouse, FRANCE d.25 Jul 1032 in Meulan, FRANCE
- b.BET. 1050-1057 in Vermandois, Normandy, FRANCE d.08 Oct 1101 in Tarsus
- b.~ 1081 in In Valois (now Oise), Picardy, FRANCE d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, ENGLAND
- b.~ 1050 in Valois, Bretagne, FRANCE d.23 Sep 1120 in Tarsus, SILESIA
- b.BET. 1121-1130 in Leicester, Leicestershire, ENGLAND d.31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, GREECE
- b.~ 0944 in Vexin, FRANCE d.1027
- b.~ 0990 in Amiens, Somme, Picardy, FRANCE d.01 Jul 1035 in Bithynia, ASIA MINOR
- b.~ 0944 in Isle-de-France, FRANCE
- b.< 1028 in Mantes-le-Jolie, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, FRANCE d.21 Dec 1057 in Sudley Castle, Gloucestershire, ENGLAND
- b.0968 in Wessex, ENGLAND d.23 Apr 1016 in London, ENGLAND
- b.~ 1007 in Wessex, ENGLAND d.BET. 1049-55
- b.~ 0982 in Normandy, FRANCE d.06 Mar 1052 in Winchester, Hampshire, ENGLAND
- b.~ 1040 in In of Gael, Brittany, FRANCE d.AFT. Feb. 1067/68 in on Crusade
- b.~ 1040 in Herefordshire, ENGLAND d.1099
- b.~ 1108 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, FRANCE d.>05 Apr 1168 in Convent of Nuneaton, ENGLAND
- b.~ 0955
- b.~ 0985 in Normandy, FRANCE d.1035 in (murdered)
- b.~ 1015 in Pontiers, FRANCE d.20 Feb 1071 in Flanders, FRANCE
- b.~ 0985 in Ivry, FRANCE
- b.~ 1071 in Cambridge, ENGLAND d.1100 in On Crusade
- b.< 0970 in Toeni, FRANCE d.> 1015
- b.0990 in Conches, Normandy, FRANCE d.ABT. 1038/39
- b.~ 1015 in In of Conches, Normandy, FRANCE d.< 1070 in Bur Abbey of Lir, Normandy, FRANCE
- b.~ 0995 d.> 1077
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