Roger de Beaumont

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Roger de Beaumont called Barbatus ( the bearded one , * around 1015; † November 29, 1094 ) was a Norman nobleman in the vicinity of William the Conqueror . He was Viscount de Rouen , Lord of Beaumont , Pont-Audemer , Vatteville-la-Rue, and perhaps Brionne as well .

biography

Roger was a son of Onfroi de Vieilles , a relative of the first lords of Harcourt , and Aubrée. He became the first master of Beaumont to be renamed Beaumont-le-Roger in his honor.

With Roger II. De Montgommery and William Fitz Osbern , Roger de Beaumont formed the new generation on which Duke Wilhelm II., The later conqueror, relied after the turbulence of his minority. The British writer James Planché (1796–1880) reports that he was the richest, noblest and most courageous gentleman in Normandy and the most loyal friend of the Rollonids . Around 1040 he victoriously opposed Roger I. de Tosny ; the property of Beaumont was a valuable support in the Pays d'Ouche for the young duke .

Wace , the historian of the 12th century, reports that at the moment of the conquest of England , Roger was called to the great council of Lillebonne because of his wisdom , but he was already too old to take part in the campaign [of 1066] . Instead, he became one of the governors of Normandy during the period, but did not hesitate to share in the cost of the invasion by equipping 60 ships to transport troops across the English Channel . So it is probably not he who is depicted on the 43rd part of the Bayeux Tapestry, where a bearded man sits between Wilhelm and his half-brother Odo von Bayeux , as this scene takes place shortly before the Battle of Hastings . It should be noted, however, that beards were rare among the Norman nobles.

Ordericus Vitalis explains that Duke Wilhelm entrusted him with the castle of Ivry , but that in 1089 the new Duke, Robert II, gave the fortress Guillaume de Breteuil . To compensate, Roger received the Brionne Castle . Another chronicler, Robert von Torigni , gives a slightly different report, according to which Roger's son Robert I asked for this exchange.

Around 1050 he founded the women's monastery of the same name near the male monastery of Saint-Pierre in Préaux, which his father had restored . In 1070 he founded the Sainte-Trinité monastery in Beaumont-le-Roger. From 1071 until Wilhelm's death he had the rebellious Count Morcar of Northumbria under his supervision.

progeny

Between 1045 and 1050 he married Adeline de Meulan († 1081), daughter of Count Galéran III. von Meulan , who became Countess of Meulan in 1077 when her brother Hugues II went to the monastery. Your children were:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Jean-Michel Bouvris ". Contribution à une étude de l'institution vicomtale en Normandie au 11e siècle L'exemple de la partie orientale du duché: les Vicomte de Rouen et de Fécamp", in: Lucien Musset et Jean-Michel Bouvris , Autour du pouvoir ducal normand Xe-XIIe siècles, Cahiers des Annales de Normandie n ° 17, Caen, 1985, p.160
  2. ^ Wilhelm von Jumièges , Ordericus Vitalis and Robert von Torigni , Gesta Normannorum ducum , Éd. Guizot, Paris, 1826. En ligne sur Gallica . Roger's great-grandfather in the male line was Turold; Wilhelm von Jumièges reports that this Turold was a brother of Turquetil, the first master of Harcourt, and an uncle of Ansketil d'Harcourt; Turold also a sister who had Gunnora married, so what a member of the ducal family of the House of Normandy became
personal data
SURNAME Roger de Beaumont
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbatus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norman nobleman, Viscount de Rouen, Seigneur de Beaumont, Pont-Audemer, Vatteville-la-Rue
DATE OF BIRTH around 1015
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1094