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Robert II De MONTGOMERY, Count La Marche

Robert II De MONTGOMERY, Count La Marche[1, 2]

Male 1058 - 1102  (44 years)

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  • Name Robert II De MONTGOMERY  [2
    Suffix Count La Marche 
    Born 1058  St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Name DE BELLEME 
    Name Robert II De BELLEME 
    Name The POITEVIN 
    Reference Number ems-jw 
    _UID 5A90860FE4834312844E5F4DA543AF4696B6 
    Died 1102  Warham Castle, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Count Of Ponthieu, Alecon, & Montreuil Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I19688  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2012 

    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

    Alt. Marriage Aft 1079 
    Married 1083  Of Poitou, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F9415  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Married Bef 9 Sep 1087 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F9416  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Name Suffix: [LORD OF LANCAST
      Ancestral File Number: V9TZ-TD
      Seigneur de Belleme and Alecon.
      Exiled 1102 from England by Henry I and lost English Lands.
      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).