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Roger de Beaumont
d. 1094
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1094
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Roger de Beaumont, called La Barbe, was a trusted counsellor of the Conqueror who stayed to govern Normandy while his duke conquered England; he married the heiress of Meulan and founded the greatest of the Anglo-Norman comital houses.
Research notes
ROGER DE BEAUMONT (c.1015-1094); m. Adeline of Meulan; father of Robert de Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester (I99760, our line). Standard well-documented Anglo-Norman baronial genealogy per Complete Peerage/standard authorities; contested/uncertain rungs note-only, not hardened.