Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester

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Robert "ès Blanchemains" de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester († August 31, 1190 ) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Lord High Steward of England in the 12th century. His nickname is "with the white hands".

Life

In April 1173 Robert joined the revolt of the eldest king's son, the young King Henry , against King Henry II . After Breteuil had been destroyed by the king in September that year, Robert fled to his allied Count Philip of Flanders . From this he received an army of 8,000 Flemish mercenaries with whom he landed on September 29 at Walton ( Suffolk ) on the English coast. In association with Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk , he marched towards Leicester , which was besieged by forces loyal to the king. But on October 17, 1173, at Fornham, near Bury St Edmunds , an army led by the Royal Justiciars Richard de Luci , Constable Humphrey de Bohun and the loyal Earls of Cornwall , Arundel and Gloucester stood in their way . The rebels were defeated in a great battle , Robert and his wife accompanying him were taken prisoner and his Flemings were massacred. By July 1174, King Henry II had put down the rebellion and as part of a general settlement Robert and other rebels were released by August 1174.

In 1189 Robert took the cross on the third crusade . Instead of marching with the main English army under King Richard the Lionheart , he joined an advance command of French knights. According to the Annales de Margan , he died in 1190 during the siege of Acre , the necrology of the Abbey of Saint-Évroult d'Ouche on August 31. According to the report by Roger von Hoveden, however, Robert died when he was on his way home in "Romania" ( Byzantine Empire ), so his place of death is often called Dyrrachium (Durrës) .

Familiar

He was a son of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester , and the Amicia de Gaël. When his father died in 1168 he took over his heir as Earl of Leicester , from his mother he inherited the castle of Breteuil in Normandy .

He was married to Pétronille († 1212) from the Grandmesnil family . Your children were:

  1. ∞ with Simon (IV.) Von Montfort († before 1188)
  2. ∞ with Guillaume II. Des Barres († 1234), Seigneur de La Ferté-Alais

Individual evidence

  1. Radulfus de Diceto , Ymagines Historiarum , ed. by William Stubbs: The Historical Works of Ralph of Diss , in: Rolls Series 68.1 (London, 1876), p. 377
  2. Radulfus de Diceto, Ymagines Historiarum , ed. by William Stubbs: The Historical Works of Ralph of Diss , in: Rolls Series 68.1 (London, 1876), p. 378
  3. Annales monastici: Annales de Margan (AD 1066-1232); Annales de Theokesberia (AD 1066-1263); Annales de Burton (AD 1004-1263) , ed. by Henry Richards Luard in: Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores 36 (1864), p. 21
  4. Ex Uticensis monasterii necrologio , ed. by Natalis de Wailly, Léopold Delisle and Ch. Jourdain in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHGF) 23 (1894), p. 488
  5. Roger of Hoveden, The annals of Roger de Hoveden, Vol. 2 , ed. by Henry T. Riley (1853), p. 188
  6. George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Peerage (CP) 7 (1910), pp. 531-532
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Robert de Beaumont Lord High Steward
1168-1190
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Robert de Beaumont Earl of Leicester
1168-1190
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