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1039547576. Lord Robert de BEAUMONT of Beaumont (7111) was born about 1049. He died on 5 Jun 1118. Lord of Beaumont, Pont-Audemer and Brionne, Count of Meulan, cr. First Earl of Leicester, Campanion of William the Conqueror at Hasting 1066, son of Roger de Beaumont and Adelise, dau of Waldran, Count of Meulan. (Weis)
"Viscount Ivry, Earl of Leicester and Mallent, (Mellent, Meullent), Lord of Beaumont, Biognie, Pout and Emer, came into England with the Conqueror: inherited the earldom of Mellent in Normandy from his mother. In the battle of Hastings he made the first onset in the fight with the regiment which he commanded in the right wing, boldly charging and breaking in on the enemy; for which gallant services he obtained sixty-four lordshipsips in Warwickshier, sixteen in Leicestershier, seven in Wiltshire, three in Northamptonshier, and one in Gloucestershier, in all ninety-one; created Earl of Leicester by Henry I. He exceeded all the nobles of the realm in riches and power. He. m. 1096, Lady Isabel, daughter of Price Hugh Magnus, son of Henry I, King of France, and his third wife, Lady Ann, daughter of Jeroslaus the Halt, Grand Duke of Russia, son of Vladimir I, first Czar of Russia; the wife of Jaroslaus the Halt being Lady Engerherde, daughter of Olaus the Bold (Olaf Tryggefesson). King of Norway, who died A.D. 1000. Sir Robert de Beaumont, Knight, was born about A.D. 1049; Chief minister of Royal Army, 2d division, Tinchebraye, September 28, 1106. He died June 5, 1118." Your Family Tree, Jordan & Kimble, p.87. He was married to Isabell de VERMANDOIS in 1096.

1039547577. Isabell de VERMANDOIS died on 13 Feb 1131. "(50-24, 53-24); m. (1) 1096, Sir Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester; m. (2)ca. 118, William de War(r)ene, Earl of Surrey. (CP X 351. Generations13-24; Cambridge Mediaeval History; EB Dudley pedigree; NEHGR 99; 243 chart; Boston Evening Transcript, 9 Nov. 1927, Note 2257, Part X Carolingians)." (Weis 141-24)
THE KIMBALL CHART
"A great chart of genealogy, some fifteen by three feet in dimensions, was finished in 1912 by the junior author ot this book and presented to the senior author as an aid in his course of university lectures on Genetics. This chart, far too large for reproduction, gives a fragment of the list of descendants of Isabel de Vermandois, a Norman lady born about 1070, who died on Feburary 13, 1131, in the reign of King Henry I of England. She married successively to Norman lords, Robert de Bellomont, Earl of Leicester, and later William de Warrenne, Earl of Warren and Surrey. Isabell was the daughter of Hugh the Great, Duke of France and Burgundy, and through six seperate strains descended from Charlemagne, while her mother, Adelheid de Vermandois, was a lineal descendant of Alfred the Great. The virtues and charms of this far-off lady concern us very little; so also the manly qualities of either of the earls, although all three of these once exalted personages were no doubt ancestors of yours, gentle reader, as well as of both the present writers. It should also be noted that a very large (althought indefinable) percentage of British and American families of marked originality and energy are descended from Isabel.
By the Earl of Leicester, Isabel had two children, Robert and Elizabeth de Bellomont; by the Earl of Warren, several others, among whom were William, Reginald, Gundred, and Ada de Warren. (Among the descendants of Ada de Warren and her husband, Prince Henry of Scotland, was King Robert Bruce). Each of these lines of descent then passes through a long series of English and Scottish nobility, each allowing a younger son or daughter or daughter's son to drop from time to time into the undistinguished ranks of the middle class or even into the commond peasantry, while a few of the line of Elizabeth de Bellomont, though by no means the most eminent of their group, were set apart by laws of inheritance as occupants of royal thrones. Meanwhile, as I have implies, the elder sons, holding lands and titles, remained in the Cavalier-Troy-Conservative caste, while their disinherited brothers and sisters became Dissenters, of whom many of the most obstinate or most enterprising sought freedom or fortune in the New World." Your Family Tree, pp.13,14. 2-24-98 Children were:

child23347869 i. Isabel (or Elizabeth) BEAUMONT.
child185711124 ii. Sir Robert BEAUMONT.
child11673931 iii. Lady de (Hawise) BEAUMONT.