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Roger de Newburgh 2nd Earl of Warwick

d. 1153

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Died
1153

Family

About

||CONFIRMED 7 Aug 2026|| Source: Cokayne, Complete Peerage (1st edn), 'WARWICK' pp.52-71, page images read 7 Aug 2026.: b. before 1102; suc. 20 Jun 1123; one of the five Earls who witnessed the Salisbury charter of 8 Sep 1131; an adherent of the EMPRESS MAUD; a Crusader; m. before 1130 Gundred, 1st da. of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, by Isabel da. of Hugh Count of Vermandois - exactly as wired here; d. 12 JUN 1153. HIS WIDOW DELIVERED WARWICK CASTLE the following year to Henry, afterwards HENRY II, and was living 1167. His mother is now wired: Margaret of Perche (I100371). Roger, second Earl of Warwick, married a granddaughter of two great houses and died, it was said, of shock at false news that Warwick castle had fallen.

Research notes

✓ ROGER de NEWBURGH (de Beaumont), 2nd Earl of WARWICK (c.1102-1153); m. GUNDREDA DE WARENNE; father of Waleran (our line). Standard well-documented English comital genealogy (CP Warwick), web-confirmed 6 Aug 2026; contested rungs note-only, not hardened.

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