Robert III De Beaumont 
Robert III was born before 1135 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. Robert III's father was Robert II De Beaumont and his mother was Amice De Wayer. His paternal grandparents were Robert I De Beaumont and Isabel De Vermandois; his maternal grandfather was Ralph De Wayer. He had three sisters named Isabel, Hawise De Paganel and Margaret. He was the youngest of the four children. He died on August 31st, 1190 in Durazzo, Greece.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> 3rd Earl Of Leicester
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.
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- b.~ 0949 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0980 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France d.28 Sep 1044
- b.~ 0942 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1022 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France d.1094
- b. in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France d.20 Sep 1045
- b.1046 in Pontaudemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0965
- b.~ 0990 in Mellent, Normandy, France d.08 Dec 1069
- b.~ 0970
- b. in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France d.1081
- b.~ 0964 in Comyn And Tonsburgh, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0994 in Mellent, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1098 in Meulan, Normandy, France d.05 Apr 1168 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England
- b.0968 d.1031
- b.Apr 1008 in Bourgogne, Burgundy, France d.1060
- d.25 Jul 1032 in Melun, Seine-Et-Marne, France
- b.1057 d.18 Oct 1102 in Tarsus, Asia Minor Turkey
- b.0978 in Kiev, Ukraine d.20 Feb 1053-1054 in Kiev, Ukraine
- d.> 1075
- b.~ 1001 d.10 Feb 1049-1050 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.1081 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.1147 in In St. Nicaise, Meulan, France
- b.~ 1000 d.25 May 1015
- d.Bet 1080 and 1096
- b.~ 1015
- b.~ 1062 d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1025 in Valois, France d.08 Sep 1074
- b.< 1043 in Valois, France
- d.1053
- b.< 1135 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece
- d.> 1067
- d.Bet 1095 and 1100 in On Crusade
- b.~ 0966 d.1015
- b.~ 1075 in Herefordshire, England
- d.~ 1040
- b.~ 1015 d.20 Feb 1069-1070 in Cassel, Flanders, France
- b.~ 0985
- b.~ 1045 d.< 1100 in On Crudase
- b.~ 0990 in Conches, Normandy d.Bet 1038 and 1039
- b.~ 1015 in Conches, Normandy, France d.< 1070 in Abbey Of Lire, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0995
- b.~ 1100 in Norfolk, England d.> 1168 in Convent Of Nuneaton, , England
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They had a daughter named Margaret.
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