Roger De MONTGOMERY, 1st Earl Of Shrewsbury^[1]

1022 - 1094  (72 years)

• Name	Roger De MONTGOMERY  [2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	1st Earl Of Shrewsbury
  Birth	1022	St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France
  Gender	Male
  _UID	1B09BBEC42CE494F827FBE5D08A26611B0B1
  Death	27 Jul 1094	Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England   [5]
  Person ID	I18851	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Roger I DE MONTGOMERY, Vicomte D'hiemois,   b. Abt 985, Probably St. Germain, Montgomery, Normandy, France d. Abt 1040, Exiled To Paris, Seine, France (Age ~ 55 years)
  Mother	Mrs. Emma (Nmn-Roger) MONTGOMERY,   b. Abt 1000, France d. Aft 1067 (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1038
  Family ID	F9125	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mabel De Talvas D' ALENCON,   b. 1026, Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France d. 2 Dec 1079, Bures Castle (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1048	Perche, France
  Children	1. Emma De MONTGOMERY, [Abbess Of Almeneches]   d. Unknown   2. Maud De MONTGOMERY,   b. Abt 1041, Montgomery, Normandy, France d. 1107 (Age ~ 66 years)   3. Arnulph De MONTGOMERY,   b. 1048, Pembroke, Dyfed, Wales d. Abt 1126 (Age 78 years)   4. Roger De MONTGOMERY, 3rd Earl Shrewsbury,   b. Between 1052 and 1056, Alencon, Orne, France d. 8 May 1131, 1102 Deprived Of English Lands & Exiled To France By Henry I (Age ~ 79 years)   5. Hugh De MONTGOMERY, 2nd Earl Of Shrewsbury,   b. Between 1053 and 1059, St-Germain-DE-Montgomery, Calvados, Normandy, France d. 31 Jul 1098, Montgomery, Montgomershire, Wales (Age ~ 45 years)   6. Philip De MONTGOMERY,   b. Abt 1056, Montgomery, Montgomershire, Wales d. Between 1098 and 1099 (Age ~ 42 years)   7. Robert II De MONTGOMERY, Count La Marche,   b. 1058, St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France d. 1102, Warham Castle, Dorset, England (Age 44 years)   8. Sybil DE MONTGOMERY,   b. 1062, Saint-Germain-de-Montgommery, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France d. 10 Mar 1107, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (Age 45 years)   9. Mabel De MONTGOMERY,   b. Abt 1064, Montgomery, Montgomershire, Wales d. Deceased
  Family ID	F9120	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Shrewsbury, Earldom of: In early December 1074 Roger de Montgomery was created Earl of Shropshire or Shrewsbury. As with other medieval earldoms, little distinction was then made between the county town and county proper when designating a specific name for a title, chiefly because an earl, who was then more or less and official, albeit often hereditary, was inconceivable except as earl of a county. Roger was son of another Roger de Montgomery, seigneur of the Norman places (St Germain-de-Montgomery and Ste-Foy-de-Montgomery) of that name in the Calvados region. He was a prominent member of the nobles grouped around William (later William I of England, The Conqueror) of Normandy well before the 1066 invasion of England but stayed behind in Normandy during the actual enterprise. The year after Hastings he went to England and received land grants in Sussex. He is thought to have constructed the Castle of Montgomery (now in Powys, but formerly named Mongomeryshire after his family), doing so shortly before the Domesday Survey. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2604]

  
  

• Sources

  [S706] Eileen McKinnon-Suggs, Eileen McKinnon-Suggs. [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 2604, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3). [S138] The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968. [S296] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edi t i o n , by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Le e Sh ip pa r d Jr., 1999, 124-26, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3). [S296] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edi t i o n , by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Le e Sh ip pa r d Jr., 1999, 185-1, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3).