General Notes

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In addition to his legitimate births, Henry is reported to have had
nineteen or twenty illegitimate children, the highest number of spurious
offspring for a King of England to have acknowledged. The best known of
them all is Robert the Consul, Earl of Gloucester, father of Maud, wife
of Ranulph de Meschines, 2nd Earl of Chester. Another was Reginald, a
natural son from a relationship between Henry I. of England and his
mistress, Elizabeth Beaumont, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, Count of
Meulent and Earl of Leicester, (son of Roger de Beaumont and his wife,
Adelina, Countess of Meulent) and his wife Elizabeth Vermandois, younger
daughter of Hugh Magnus, the Great, of France, Count of Vermandois.
Reginald, married Beatrix, daughter of William Fitz Richard, a potent
lord in Cornwall. They had a daughter, Matilda, who married Robert, Count
of Meulent, son of Waleran II., Count of Meulent, who married Agnes de
Montfort. Waleran II. was a son of the aforementioned Robert Beaumont,
and his wife, Elizabeth Vermandois. Robert and Matilda had two children:
Waleran III. and Mabel de Beaumont, who married William de Vernon, Earl
of Devon, who had three children: Baldwin, Mary Vernon and Joan. Their
descendants are not identified.