Robert II "Blanchmains" de Beaumont ⁵

   Another name for Robert was Earl of Leicester.

   Ancestral File Number: 9Q8B-16.

  General Notes:

!BIRTH (Robert, third Earl of Leicester, Steward of England, DEATH 1196; MARRIAGE: (Petronella, d/o Hugh de Grentesmesmil): Colonial Families of the United States p. 342. BIRTH (Roger de Beaumont III b. ca. 1104): DEATH (1190, Durazzo, Greece): MARRIAGE (ca. 1155 Petronilla (Pernel) de Grantmesnil who d. Apr. 1 1212. 3rd Earl of Leiceter, Steward of England and Normandy, Crusader in 1179.: s of Some of the Ancestors of Emperor Charlemange's Descendants by Aileen Lewis Langston and J. Orton Bick Jr. 1974 ppg. 222. ppg. 176: only son and heir, died on his return journey from Jerusalem

BIRTH (Sir Robert de Beaumont b. bef. 1135): DEATH (1135, Durazzo, Greece): MARRIAGE (ca 1155): Crusader 1179: Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650 - by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1988; pg. 62; Orlando Public Library.

Robert (surnamed Blanchmaines, from having white hands) de Bellomont <s2.htm>, 3rd Earl of Leicester, adhering to Prince Henry, in the 19th year of King Henry II., in his rebellion, incurred the high displeasure of that monarch. The king commanding that his town of Leicester should be laid to waste, it was besieged, and the greater part burnt; the inhabitants having permission for 300 pounds to move whither they pleased. He was received however in royal favor in four years afterwards (1177), and had restoration of all his lands and castles, save the castle of Montsorel, in the co. of Leicester, and Pacey in Normandy; but surviving King Henry, he stood in such favor with Richard I., that those castles were likewise restored to him, and he was appointed to carry one of the swords of state at that monarch's coronation. He married Petronella Grantmesnil, daughter of Hugh de Grantmesnil, with whom he had the whole honor of Hinkley, and stewardship of England. They had the following children:

Robert married Petronilla de Grentemesnil, daughter of William Grentemesnil and Mabel Apulia, about 1150. (Petronilla de Grentemesnil was born about 1130 in Of, , Leicestershire, England, died on 1 Apr 1212 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England and was buried in Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.)