MAUDUIT, Robert

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• Name	MAUDUIT, Robert
  Birth	Abt 1172	Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Jun 1221	Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England
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  Father	MAUDUIT, William III ,   b. 1130, Castlethorpe, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England Castlethorpe, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Englandd. 1195 (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Mary ,   b. 1148, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Englandd. DECEASED
  Family ID	F23960	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BASSETT, Countess Isabell ,   b. 1156, Headington, Oxfordshire, England Headington, Oxfordshire, Englandd. 1224, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1190	Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England
  Children	+ 1. MAUDUIT, Baron William I ,   b. Abt 1196, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Englandd. Bef 14 Feb 1257 (Age < 61 years)
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  Along with the estates and offices, Robert inherited from his father, Henry II bestowed the manor os Warminster in Wiltshire, a lordship of great value, upon Robert. This was later confirmed by a Charter of Richard I. Robert later joined the Barons in rebellion against King John, at which time the castle of Hanslope was beseiged and demolish by Fauld de Breant and placed into the king's hands, then given, by King John in 1206 to Hugh de Nevill. After this, Henry III conferred Hanslope and all the other land and fees of Robert Mauduit on to Henry de Brailrof for his support in war. Later, Robert must have made peace with the king since his manor and lorship of Hanslope was restored to him in the same year. Robert Malduit sat as a justicier in the Curia Regis in 10 John (1209/09), when fines were acknowledged there. He was the son of William Malduit. He was the sheriff of Wiltshire during the last nine or tens years of the reign of Henry II, and on his father's death, he succeeded to the office of chamberlain of the Exchequer, which he exercised during the whole of the reign of King John. [Rot. de Liberate, passim.] In 1 John, for a fine of 100l., he obtained the custody of Rockingham Castle [Rot. de Oblatis, 9], and from 2 to 7 John, he was sheriff of Rutland. Robert served the king in his Irish expedition of 1210 [Rot. de Prastito, 185], but soon after joined with the discontented barons who contested for their liberties. The Close Roll of 17 John records his name among those who took up arms against the king. His son, also named William, was an ever more active participant, and the family estates were seized by the King. Soon after the accession of King Henry III, both father and son returned their allegiance to crown, and their land was restored to them. [Rot. Clau. i. 237-346] BIO: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#RaoulTosnydied1102 ROBERT de Beaumont-le-Roger, son of ROGER de Vieilles Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger & his wife Adeline de Meulan ([1046]-5 or 6 Jun 1118, bur Préaux, monastery of Saint-Pierre[2479]). Guillaume de Jumièges names "Robert et Henri" as sons of "Roger de Beaumont" & his wife[2480]. He is named as son of Roger by Orderic Vitalis[2481]. He fought at the battle of Hastings in Oct 1066 and was rewarded by William I King of England with the grant of lands, mainly in Warwickshire and Leicestershire. He succeeded his mother's family in 1081 as Comte de Meulan. Domesday Book records “the count of Meulan” holding numerous properties in Warwickshire[2482]. "Rogerus de Bellomonte" founded la Sainte-Trinité de Beaumont-le-Roger, with the consent of "liberis meis Roberto comite Mellentensi et Henrico comite de Warwic", by charter dated [1088/89][2483]. He succeeded his father in [1090] as Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger, de Vieilles et de Pont-Audemer. In [before 1094], he was imprisoned by Robert III Duke of Normandy after challenging the exchange of Ivry for Brionne agreed by his father, the Duke confiscating Brionne. He was released after the intervention of his father, and Brionne was restored to his father after being recaptured[2484]. He was granted the town of Leicester by Henry I King of England, and is thereby said to have become Earl of Leicester but there is no record of his having used this title[2485]. The Chronicon Rotomagensi records the death in 1118 of "Robertus comes de Mellent"[2486]. The necrology of Saint-Père-en-Vallée records the death "VIII Id Jun" of "Robertus comes Mellentensis"[2487]. The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "5 Jun" of "Robertus comes Mellenti"[2488]. [m firstly [as her first husband,] GODECHILDE de Tosny, daughter of RAOUL [III] de Tosny Seigneur de Conches & his wife Isabel de Montfort l'Amaury (-Germanicea, Cilicia Oct 1097[2489]). Her parentage is specified by Orderic Vitalis, who also refers to her two marriages[2490]. The Complete Peerage[2491] says that this first marriage is "highly improbable" as Godechilde was still a young girl when she married Baudouin de Boulogne in 1096, although infant marriages were by no means unknown at the time. Orderic Vitalis makes no mention of any annulment of her alleged first marriage. The first "marriage" may have merely been a contract of betrothal. She married [secondly] ([1090/1096]) as his second wife, Baudouin de Boulogne, who was chosen in 1100 to succeed as Baudouin I King of Jerusalem.] m [secondly] ([1096], divorced 1115) as her first husband, ISABELLE [Elisabeth] de Vermandois, daughter of HUGUES I "le Maisné" Comte de Vermandois et de Valois [Capet] & his wife Adelais Ctss de Vermandois [Carolingian] ([before 1088][2492]-17 Feb 1131, bur Lewes). This marriage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis, who names her father and specifies that it was part of the arrangements he made to settle his affairs before leaving on the First Crusade[2493]. Guillaume de Jumièges names "Elisabeth fille de Hugues-le-Grand comte de Vermandois" as wife of "Guillaume II de Warenne comte de Surrey", specifying that her previous husband had been "Robert comte de Meulan" by whom she had three sons and three daughters[2494]. She married secondly (1118) William de Warenne Earl of Surrey. The necrology of Saint-Nicaise de Meulan records the death "XIII Kal Mar" of "Isabel comitissa Mellenti"[2495]. There appears to be no other "Isabelle Ctss de Melun" to whom this can refer apart from Isabelle de Vermandois. However, it is surprising that she is not referred to by the title of her second husband. Comte Robert & his [second] wife had [nine] children... ** from Who's Who in Early Medieval England (Christopher Tyerman) p 84-86 Robert of Meulan, Lord of Meuland and Beaumont, Earl of Leicester (1046-1118), was the leading lay adviser to both William II and Henry I. Although in the course of a long public life he amassed extensive estates in England, Normandy and France, Robert was the nearest thing to a king's minister that contemporary circumstances allowed, the more remarkable as his successors as royal lay advisers--with the exception of his own son Robert of Leicester, justiciar to Henry II--tended to come from less exalted ranks of the nobility, men such as the justiciars Ranulf Glanvill, Geoffrey FitzPeter and Hubert de Burgh. Robert's career made a distinctive impression on contemporaries and affords a rare glimpse into how eleventh century politics worked. The son of a prominent Norman magnate, Roger of Beaumont, Robert made his name by his deeds at his first battle, Hastings. Thereafter, during his fathers lifetime, Robert sought his fortune in England. By 1087, he had become one of William I's active curiales and held land in England worth a significant but not spectacular L254. In the early 1080s he had inherited the county of Meulan from his maternal uncle but, despite succeeding to his father's Norman lordships a decade later, his interest and loyalties remained Anglo-Norman. Unusally, he faithfully supported all of the first three post-Conquest kings. After spending much of 1087-93 in France securing his inheritance, from 1093 he emerged as William Rufus's closest counsellor, playing a prominent role in the dispute with Anselm and the king's French campaigns. On the sudden death of Rufus in August 1100, Robert smoothoy transferred his allegiance to Henry I. For the last 18 years of his life, Robert appears as the most frequent witness to the new king's charters, a reflection of his influence. By 1107 when, perhaps in reward for his part in Henry's acquisition of Normandy, Robert was given the earldom of Leicester, he had become a major landowner in England as well as northern France, with estatates especially extensive in the Midlands. While Roger of Salisbury ran the royal administration, centred upon the Treasury and Exchequer, Robert's influence was in politics, diplomacy and the law. Robert played a crucial role in furthering Henry's cause in Normandy 1103-6 and undermining that of the duke Robert Curthose, with whom Robert of Meulan had long had strained relations. He continued to be closely involved in the dispute with Archbishop Anselm, his prominence recognised by Pope Pascal II who identified Robert by name for excommunication in 1105. However, Robert was instrumental in securing a compromise with Anselm, finally concluded at Bec in 1106, and in persuading Henry I to stick to the agreement, to moderate church taxes and restore church lands. In 1109, Robert 'with flattery, coaxing and apology' tried to persuade Archbishop Thomas of York to profess obedience to the see of Canterbury, and attempt repeated with Thomas's successor, Thurstan, in 1116. As a significant Norman lord, wealthy French count and English earl, with experience of public affairs stretching back to the 1060s, Robert was well placed to further his own interests. He established an elaborate, almost quasi-regal administration for his English and continental lands: In England he had his own exchequer, in imitation of the new royal accounting office. At Leicester, he restored the Anglo-Saxon court of Portmanmote, a tribunal of 24, to replace trial by combat. He insisted that his twin sons, Waleran and Rbert, both of whom were to play leading political roles in the next generation, received good educations. He was tenacious of his own rights and lands. In 1111, in revenge for an attack of Meulan, he ravaged the French king's capital at Paris causing so much damage the the Ile de la Cite required extensive rebuilding. Ruthless in manipulating his position and the law to acquire new estates, on his deathbed he characteristically refused to restore any lands he had illegally seized. Robert's private life may not have been untroubled. He had married late (c. 1096) Isabel of Vermandois who was alleged to have eloped with William of Warrenne, who she subsequently married, before Robert's death. As in contemporary Romances, so in life, infidelity and chivalry could be close companions. Robert's interest in public affairs and desire to infoluence royal business, although personallly enriching, was not solely self-seeking. To Robert was attributed Henry I's less aggressive, less ostentatious and more conciliatory tone of government, notably towards the church and in the delicate handling of the prickly Norman baronage. William of Malmesbury wrote of Robert as 'the persuade of peace, the dissuader of strife... urging his lord the king rigorously to enforce the law; and himself not only abiding by existing laws by proposing new ones.' Not the least of Robert's achievement may have been to temper Henry's notorious personal brutality. Orderic Vitalis, who may well have met Robert, attributed to him a remarkable political testament delivered to Henry I in 1101. This may stand as a blueprint for effective medieval political management which, even if the chronicler's invention, suggests what policies contemporaries associated with Robert... ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#RobertBeaumontLeicesterdied1118B ROBERT de Beaumont-le-Roger, son of ROGER de Vieilles Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger & his wife Adeline de Meulan ([1046]-5 or 6 Jun 1118, bur Préaux, monastery of Saint-Pierre[924]). Guillaume de Jumièges names "Robert et Henri" as sons of "Roger de Beaumont" & his wife[925]. He is named as son of Roger by Orderic Vitalis[926]. He fought at the battle of Hastings in Oct 1066 and was rewarded by William I King of England with the grant of lands, mainly in Warwickshire and Leicestershire. He succeeded his mother's family in 1081 as Comte de Meulan. He succeeded his father in [1090] as Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger, de Vieilles et de Pont-Audemer. In [before 1094], he was imprisoned by Robert III Duke of Normandy after challenging the exchange of Ivry for Brionne agreed by his father, the Duke confiscating Brionne. He was released after the intervention of his father, and Brionne was restored to his father after being recaptured[927]. He was granted the town of Leicester by Henry I King of England, and is thereby said to have become Earl of Leicester but there is no record of his having used this title[928]. The necrology of Saint-Père-en-Vallée records the death "VIII Id Jun" of "Robertus comes Mellentensis"[929]. [m firstly [as her first husband,] GODECHILDE de Tosny, daughter of RAOUL [III] de Tosny Seigneur de Conches & his wife Isabel de Montfort l'Amaury (-Germanicea, Cilicia Oct 1097[930]). Her parentage is specified by Orderic Vitalis, who also refers to her two marriages[931]. The Complete Peerage[932] says that this first marriage is "highly improbable" as Godechilde was still a young girl when she married Baudouin de Boulogne in 1096, although infant marriages were by no means unknown at the time. Orderic Vitalis makes no mention of any annulment of her alleged first marriage. The first "marriage" may have merely been a contract of betrothal. She married [secondly] ([1090/1096]) as his second wife, Baudouin de Boulogne, who was chosen in 1100 to succeed as Baudouin I King of Jerusalem.] m [secondly] ([1096], divorced 1115) as her first husband, ISABELLE [Elisabeth] de Vermandois, daughter of HUGUES I "le Maisné" Comte de Vermandois et de Valois [Capet] & his wife Adelais Ctss de Vermandois [Carolingian] ([before 1088][933]-17 Feb 1131, bur Lewes). This marriage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis, who names her father and specifies that it was part of the arrangements he made to settle his affairs before leaving on the First Crusade[934]. Guillaume de Jumièges names "Elisabeth fille de Hugues-le-Grand comte de Vermandois" as wife of "Guillaume II de Warenne comte de Surrey", specifying that her previous husband had been "Robert comte de Meulan" by whom she had three sons and three daughters[935]. She married secondly (1118) William de Warenne Earl of Surrey. The necrology of Saint-Nicaise de Meulan records the death "XIII Kal Mar" of "Isabel comitissa Mellenti"[936]. There appears to be no other "Isabelle Ctss de Melun" to whom this can refer apart from Isabelle de Vermandois. However, it is surprising that she is not referred to by the title of her second husband. ** from Falaise Roll, p 87 Roger de Beaumont was represented at Senlac by his son Robert, whom William of Poitiers and Orderic Vital state was "a novice in arms." Robert was rewarded with ninety manors in Warwick, Leicester, Wilts and also Northampton. He and his brother Henry were among the barons who reconciled king William and his son, duke Robert Courteheuse, in 1081. He was known after the death of his mother as count of Meulent and as such in 1082 sat in the French parliament, as a peer of France. With his brother he espoused the cause of William Rufus, and after his death that of king Henry, by whom he was created earl of Leicester. He married Elizabeth, daughter of the count of Vermandois, by whom he had issue... ** from English Baronies, p 61 Ivo de Grentmesnil's lands in Leicester passed to Robert I de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, Domesday lord of extensive lands in Warwickshire. ** from Complete Peerage, vol 7, pp 523+ Leicester. Earldom. I. 1107? Robert de Beaumont, Seineur of Beaumont, Pont-Audemer, Brionne and Vatteville in Normandy, and from 1081 Count of Meulan in the French Vexin, son and heir born circa 1046. When very young he accompanied Duke William to England and distinguished himself at the battle of Hastings, and received large grants of lands in co. Warwick, with smaller holdings in cos. Leicester, Northants, and Wilts. On 14 July 1080, as Robert de Bellomonte, he witnessed the foundation charter of Lessay, and the next year he inherited from his mother's family the comte of Meulan. Thereafter he is continuously styled Count (Comes) of Meulan. After the death of the Conqueror he adhered to William Rufus, and was high in favour at his court. He quarrelled with Robert of Normandy about the castellanship of Brionne, in consequence of the exchange of Brionne for Ivry made by his father. He was imprisoned, ut was released at the intercession of his father Roger, who eventually suceeded in obtaining Brionne in fee. He succeeded to the greater part of his father's lands in Normandy, including Beaumont, Pont-Audemer, Vatteville and Brionne. This paternal inheritance, added to his French comte and his great possessions in cos. Warwick and Leicester, made him one of the most powerful vassals of the Crown. He became one of the chief lay ministers of William Rufus, with whom he sided against Robert Courtheuse in 1098, and when William invaded the French Vexin in 1097 he received his troops in his fortresses of the comte of Meulan. After the death of William Rufus he became one of the chief advisers of Henry I. On the death of Ives de Grandmesnil on Crusade, Robert retained his estates, which Ives had mortgaged to him him circa 1102. Thereby he acquired one-quarter of the town of Leicester, the whole of which was later granted to him by the King. Robert thus added to his already vast possessions. In 1104 he was one fo the Norman barons who adhered to Henry on his arrival in Normandy. He was present in the King's army at Tenchebrai, 28 Sep. 1106. In 1110 he was besieged at Meulan by Louis VI, who took the castle by storm, but in the following year he retaliated by a raid on Paris, which he plundered (Robert broke he bridges over the Seine, thus preventing the King from crosing to the relief of the city, and enabling himself to make a safe though hasty retreat). After obtaining the whole town of Leicester, he is said to have become Earl of Leicester, but being already Count of Meulan, never so styled. There is no contemporary record that he had the third penny of the pleas of the county, but he doubtless acquired, with the Grandmesnil fief, the third penny of the issues of the Mint at Leicester. He married, in 1096, Isabel, called also Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh de Crepi, called Hugh "le Grand," Count of Vermandois. He died 5 June 1118, and was buried with his ancestors in the chapter house of Preaux. His widow married, very shortly after his death, William (de Warrenne), Earl of Surrey. ** from Wikipedia listing for Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and Count of Meulan (1050 – June 5, 1118) was a powerful English and French nobleman, revered as one of the wisest men of his age. Chroniclers speak highly of his eloquence, his learning, and three kings of England valued his counsel. He was the eldest son of Roger de Beaumont and Adeline of Meulan, daughter of Waleran III, Count de Meulan, and an older brother of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick. He accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066, where his service earned him more than 91 lordships and manors. When his mother died in 1081, Robert inherited the title of Count of Meulan in Normandy, also the title of Viscount Ivry and Lord of Norton. He did homage to Philip I of France for these estates and sat as French Peer in the Parliament held at Poissy. At the Battle of Hastings Robert was appointed leader of the infantry on the right wing of the army. He and his brother Henry were members of the Royal hunting party in the New Forest, when William Rufus received his mysterious death wound, 2 August 1100. He then pledged alligience to William Rufus' brother, Henry I of England, who created him Earl of Leicester in 1107. On the death of William Rufus, William, Count of Evreux and Ralph de Conches made an incursion into Robert's Norman estates, on the pretence that they had suffered injury through some advice that Robert had given to the King; their raid was very successful for they collected a vast booty. According to Henry of Huntingdon, Robert died of shame after "a certain earl carried off the lady he had espoused, either by some intrigue or by force and stratagem." His wife Isabella remarried in 1118 to William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey. Family and children In 1096 he married Elizabeth de Vermandois, daughter of Hugh Magnus and a scion of the French royal family. Their children were: 1. Emma de Beaumont (born 1102) 2. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104) 3. Waleran IV de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (born 1104) 4. Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (born c. 1106) 5. Adeline de Beaumont, married two times: 1. Hugh IV of Montfort-sur-Risle; 2. Richard de Granville of Bideford (d. 1147) 6. Aubree de Beaumont, married Hugh II of Château-neuf-Thimerais. 7. Matilda de Beaumont, married William Lovel. 8. Isabel de Beaumont, a mistress of King Henry I of England. Married two times: 1. Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke; 2. Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland 9. Agnes de Beaumont, married Guillaume, Sire de Say. Sources * Edward T. Beaumont, J.P. The Beaumonts in History. A.D. 850-1850. Oxford.