Notes:
Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (50:24), (151:25).
Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Leicester, pp. 522-523). He appears to
have remained faithful to the young Duke William [WILLIAM THE CONQUERER (RIN 798)] during the disturbances in the earlier part of his reign, in the course of which he defeated and slew ROGER DE TOSNY [TOEINI (RIN 3258)].
Schwennicke's ES 3:700,702-4.
"ROGER DE BEAUMONT, SIRE DE PONTEAUDEMER, born about 1010, succeeded to the family estates in Normandy, as Sire du Ponteaudemer, Seigneur de Veulles, Pre'aux, Torville, and du Ponteaitorf, and Seigneur de Beaumont (or Bellomont), by which last name he came to be generally described. By his marriage he greatly increased the possessions and prestige of the family, and he rose to be one of the most powerful feudal
noblemen of his age in Normandy. When WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR invaded England in 1066, Roger de Beaumont furnished sixty armed vessels for the fleet and was left in charge of the government of Normandy when THE CONQUEROR started on the expedition. He munificently endowed the Abbey of Pre'aux, of which late in life he became a monk; and dying in 1094 at advanced age, he was buried in this monastery at Ponteaudemer, Normandy."
--- J Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy*, Boston, 1914, p 4-5.

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Roger de Beaumont

Roger de Beaumont-le-Roger, Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger et de Pont-Audemer (c. 1015 – 29 November 1094) was son of Humphrey de Vielles (himself a great-nephew of the Duchess Gunnora of Normandy) and his wife Albreda de la Haye Auberie. Roger de Beaumont, Lord of Beaumont-le-Roger and Pont-Audemer, Viscount of Hiesmes, was thus a second cousin once removed of the Conqueror.
Life
Roger was nicknamed Barbatus or La Barbe because he wore a moustache and beard while the Normans usually were clean shaven. This peculiarity is recognized in the thirty-second panel of the Bayeux Tapestry where he is depicted sitting at a feast with Duke William on his left hand, Odo, brother of William and Bishop of Bayeux, in the centre.
Planché tells us that "he was the noblest, the wealthiest, and the most valiant seigneur of Normandy, and the greatest and most trusted friend of the Danish family." There is an explanation for this - as an older cousin who had never rebelled against the young Duke, he was part of the kinship group of noblemen that William relied upon in governing Normandy and fighting off frequent rebellion and invasions. The historian Frank McLynn notes that William relied on relatives descended via his mother (namely his half-brothers and brothers-in-law) and on relatives descended from the Duchess Gunnora's sisters, since his own paternal kin had proved unreliable.
Wace, the 12th century historian, says that "at the time of the invasion of England, Roger was summoned to the great council at Lillebonne, on account of his wisdom; but that he did not join in the expedition as he was too far advanced in years." Although Roger could not fight, he did not hesitate in contributing his share of the cost, for he provided at his own expense sixty vessels for the conveyance of the troops across the channel. Furthermore, his eldest son and heir fought bravely at Hastings as noted in several contemporary records. As a result, Roger's elder sons were awarded rich lands in England, and both eventually were made English earls by the sons of the Conqueror.
He was buried at Les Préaux.
Family and children
He married circa 1048 or earlier Adeline of Meulan (c. 1014-1020 - 8 April 1081, buried at the Abbaye du Bec), daughter of Waleran III, Count de Meulan and Oda de Conteville, and sister and heiress of a childless Count of Meulan. Meulan eventually passed to their elder son who became Count of Meulan in 1081. Their surviving children were:
1. Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (b ca 1049 - 1118) who succeeded his father in the major part of his lands, and who fought in his first battle at Hastings.
2. Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick, overshadowed by his elder brother, but who established a more enduring line of Beaumont earls at Warwick Castle.
3. William de Beaumont (not mentioned in most sources).
4. Alberée de Beaumont (died 1112), Abbess of Eton.

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Notes:
Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (50:24), (151:25).
Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Leicester, p.523).
Daughter and eventually sole heiress of Waleran, Comte de Meullant, a great feudal nobleman of France.
--- J Gardner Bartlett, *Newberry Genealogy*, Boston, 1914, p 4-5.