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  U.S. PRESIDENT #1 WASHINGTON; MLC/RA
  
  TITL Ahnentafel for Margery Arundell         AUTH Marlyn Lewis        PUBL 08 Oct 1997
  MEDI Manuscript
  TEXT Roger de Beaumont Lord Pont Audemer, Earl of Mellent
  TEXT b abt 1022 of Pontaeudemer, Eure, France
  TEXT Lord Pont Auderner
  MEDI Manuscript ROGER DE BEAUMONT, SIRE DE PONTEAUDEMER (Humphrey de Veulles ..., Touroude .. ., Torf), born about 1010, succeeded to the family estates in Normandy, as Sire du Ponteaudem er, Seigneur de Veulles, Pre'aux, Torville, and du Ponteaitorf, and Seigneur de Beaumont (o r Bellomont), by which last name he came to be generally described.  By his marriage he great ly increased the possessions and prestige of the family, and he rose to be one of the most po werful feudal noblemen of his age in Normandy.  When William the Conqueror invaded England i n 1066, Roger de Beaumont furnished sixty armed vessels for the fleet and was left in charg e of the government of Normandy when the Conqueror started on the expedition.  He munificentl y endowed the Abbey of Pre'aux, of which late in life he became a monk; and dying in 1094 a t advanced age, he was buried in this monastery at Ponteaudemer, Normandy.  (P) He married ab out 1040, ADELINE DE MEULLANT, daughter and eventually sole heiress of Waleran, Comte de Meul lant, a great feudal nobleman of France.  She died in 1081.  (P) Children .... [see under the ir 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.  S o does Roderick W Stuart, *Royalty for Commoners*, 2nd edn, 1992, p 161 (lin 220)  He died i n 1094.  OR:
  Roger de BELLOMONT
  "The same thing is true of Beaumont [i.e., the name "may well be Norman or at least French i n origin".]  There was a Roger de Beaumont recorded in the Domesday Book as holding Sturminst er Marshal in Dorset, and this Roger certainly took his name from Beaumont in Normandy.   Fro m Roger descended the Counts of Meulan, the old Earls of Leicester, and the old Earls of Warw ick."
  --- Leslie Gilbert Pine, *They Came with the Conqueror, A study of the modern descendants o f the Normans", London (Evans Brothers Ltd) 1954, p 106-107
  TITL Ancestors of Deacon Edward Converse
  MEDI Book    PAGE p 20
  TEXT Roger de Beaumont Lord Pont Audemer, Earl of Mellent
  TEXT b abt 1022 of Pontaeudemer, Eure, France
  TEXT no place
  _FA1 PLAC Comte de Beaumont. sn de Ponteaudemer.
  _FA2 PLAC Succeeded to the family estates in Normandy.
  _FA3 PLAC sn de Veulles, Pre'aux, Torville, & du Ponteaitorf.
  _FA4 PLAC Rose to be one of the most powerful feudal noblemen of his age in Normandy.
  _FA5 PLAC Furnished 60 armed vessels for the fleet of the Conqueror.
  _FA6 PLAC Regent of Normandy when the Conqueror invaded England.
  _FA7 PLAC Munificently endowed the Abbey of Pre'aux, he became a monk there late in life.
  _FA8 PLAC Recorded in the Domesday Book as holding Sturminster Marshal in Dorset.
  _FA9 PLAC Norman companion with William the Conqueror.
  _FA10 PLAC Took his name from Beaumont in Normandy.
  _FA11 PLAC Buried at Preaux, France.
  _FA12 PLAC Seigneur de St. Lenfroy, de Montfort, de Brone, de Sahus, & de la Crax.

Details of Roger de's family with Adeliza (Adeline) MEULENT