Roger de Beaumont , 2nd Earl of Warwick 
Roger de was born about 1102 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. Roger de's father was Henry de Beaumont , 1st Earl of Warwick and his mother was Margaret du Perche. His paternal grandparents were Roger de Beaumont , Seigneur de Pont-Audemer and Adeline de Meulan; his maternal grandmother was Beatrice de Montdidier. He was an only child. He died on June 12th, 1153 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England.General Notes
Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick; born c 1102; married Gundred, elder daughter of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, by Elizabeth/Isabel, widow of his (Roger's) uncle, 1st Earl of Leicester, and died 1153. [Burke's Peerage]
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Roger de Newburgh, 2nd Earl of Warwick. This nobleman, in the contest between the Empress Maud and King Stephen, espoused the cause of the former, but his lordship is much more known by his munificent grants to the church than his martial deeds. He married Gundred, daughter of William, Earl of Warren, and had issue, William and Waleran, successive earls, Henry, and Agnes. The earl died 12 June, 1153, and was succeeded by his eldest son, William de Newburgh, 3rd Earl of Warwick. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 399, Newburgh, Earls of Warwick]
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Roger, the eldest son of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Warwick, held the earldom from 1123 until his death in 1153. As a member of the powerful Beaumont group, Roger was deeply involved in the struggle between Stephen and the empress Matilda (Maud). The next earls were two of his sons. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 23, p. 375, EARLS OF WARWICK]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1022 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 1094 in Sturminster Marshal, Dorsetshire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Newbourg, Manche, France d.20 Jun 1119 in Abbey of Preaux, Ponteaudemer, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.1081
- b.~ 1102 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.12 Jun 1153 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1075 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France d.> 1156
- b.~ 1010 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.~ 1063
- b.~ 1051 in Montdidier, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardy, France d.1062
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‌Roger de and Gundred de were married in a religious ceremony before 1130. They had a son and a daughter, named Waleran de and Gundred de.
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Children
Waleran de Beaumont , 4th Earl of Warwick
Waleran de was born before 1153 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. He died on December 12th, 1204.
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