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ROBERT DE BEAUMONT (I104-1168)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 591 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT DE See also:BEAUMONT (I104-1168)  , See also:justiciar of See also:England, married a granddaughter of See also:Ralph Guader, See also:earl of See also:Norfolk, and receiving his See also:father's See also:English fiefs in 1118 became earl of See also:Leicester . He and his See also:brother, Waleran, were the See also:chief advisers of See also:Stephen, and helped this See also:king to seize the bishops of See also:Salisbury and See also:Lincoln in 1139; later, however, See also:Robert made his See also:peace with See also:Henry II., and became chief justiciar of England . First among the See also:lay nobles he signed the Constitutions of See also:Clarendon, he sought to reconcile Henry and See also:Archbishop See also:Becket, and was twice in See also:charge of the See also:kingdom during the king's absences in See also:France . The earl founded the See also:abbey of St See also:Mary cle Pre at Leicester and other religious houses, and by a See also:charter confirmed the burgesses of Leicester in the See also:possession of their See also:merchant-gild and customs . His son,.Robert, succeeded to the earldom of Leicester, and with other English barons assisted See also:prince Henry in his revolt against his father the king in 1193 . For this participation, and also on a later occasion, he was imprisoned; but he enjoyed the favour of See also:Richard I., and died in See also:Greece when returning from a See also:pilgrimage in 119o . His son and See also:heir, Robert, died childless in 1204 .

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