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Roger De MONTGOMERY, 3rd Earl Shrewsbury

Roger De MONTGOMERY, 3rd Earl Shrewsbury[1]

Male 1056 - 1131  (~ 79 years)

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  • Name Roger De MONTGOMERY  [2
    Suffix 3rd Earl Shrewsbury 
    Born Between 1052 and 1056  Alencon, Orne, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Name Robert II De BELLEME 
    Reference Number ems 
    _UID 38AD23A4BE944E7A836E67DFA4C12F6DFEF8 
    Died 8 May 1131  1102 Deprived Of English Lands & Exiled To France By Henry I Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I18864  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2002 

    Father Roger De MONTGOMERY, 1st Earl Of Shrewsbury,   b. 1022, St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jul 1094, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Mabel De Talvas D' ALENCON,   b. 1026, Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Dec 1079, Bures Castle Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Married Bef 1048  Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F9120  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Shrewsbury, Earldom of: Under the system then prevailing the Earldom passed to an elder brother, Robert de Belleme, who constructed Bridgnorth Castle and continued the family policy of harrying the Welsh. He rebelled against Henry I and in 1102 was deprived of the Earldom of Shrewsbury/Shropshire, together with his English and Welsh estates. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2604]

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      According to Winston Churchill in "A History of the English Speaking People", the Montgomeries (a very great house of Norman England) sided with Robert, Duke of Normandy, against his brother Henry I, in the war of succession after William Rufus, William The Conqueror's designated heir for England was killed in a hunting accident [in which Henry I was involved--some think more than an "accident"]. Henry I destroyed the power of the Montgomeries starting in September, 1100. He captured Robert in Normandy in the battle at Tinchebrai and combined England and Normandy again.

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      Seigneur de Belleme and Alecon.

  • Sources 
    1. [S706] Eileen McKinnon-Suggs, Eileen McKinnon-Suggs.

    2. [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, 26 May 2003., 108-25 (Reliability: 3).