3rd Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, III

1135 - 1190  (55 years)

• Name	Robert de Beaumont  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	3rd Earl of Leicester
  Suffix	III
  Birth	1135	Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Military - Old World	1173  [3]
  	He joined the revolt against Henry II, and was defeated and captured at the Battle of Fornham. Robert, along with his wife and many others
  Eden	98th great grandson of Adam and Eve
  Death	31 Aug 1190	Greece   [2, 3]
  	Robert went on the third crusade, but he died at Dyrrachium on his return journey.
  Person ID	I7710	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	2nd Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, II,   b. 1104, Leicester, Leicestershire, England d. 5 Apr 1168, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Countess Leicester Lady Amice Uta Waer de Montfort,   b. 1100, Norfolk, England d. 1168, Leicestershire, England (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Nov 1120	Bretagne, France   [4]
  Family ID	F7509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Countess of Leicester Petronilla Pernel de Grandmesnil,   b. 1134, Leicestershire, England d. 1 Apr 1212, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	1155	Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [3, 5]
  Children	1. Margaret de Beaumont,   b. 1154, North Molton, Devon, England d. 12 Jan 1235, Leicestershire, England (Age 81 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2640	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1135 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England Marriage - 1155 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Arms-BEAUMONT (Eden) On Our Path to the Garden of Eden

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Robert de Beaumont III 1135-1190. Earl of Leicester https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91594575/robert_de_beaumont [S848] Wikipedia: Robert de Beaumont III, Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester. Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester (died 1190) was an English nobleman, one of the principal followers of Henry the Young King in the Revolt of 1173–1174 against his father Henry II. He is also called Robert Blanchemains (meaning "White Hands" in French). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont,_3rd_Earl_of_Leicester [S859] Wikipedia: Robert de Beaumont II, Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155–1168. The surname "de Beaumont" is given him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, the fourteenth-century chronicler notes him as Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont,_2nd_Earl_of_Leicester [S849] Wikipedia: Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester. Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester (c. 1145 – 1212) was the wife of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, known as “Blanchmains” (d. 1190). After a long widowhood, she was buried in Leicester Abbey after her death on April 1, 1212. The chronicler Jordan Fantosme wrote that Earl Robert and his wife Petronilla were participants in the 1173–1174 rebellion of Henry "the Young King" against King Henry II, his father. Jordan claimed that Earl Robert participated because of grievances against King Henry and credits dismissive remarks about the English who were fighting on the king's side to the countess: "The English are great boasters, but poor fighters; they are better at quaffing great tankards and guzzling."[1] Countess Petronilla accompanied her husband on his military campaign against English troops under the command of the earl of Arundel and Humphrey III de Bohun. During the final showdown, she is said to have fled from the battle, only to be found in a ditch. "The earl’s wife wanted to drown herself, when Simon of Odell saw to pulling her out: ‛My lady, come away from this place, and abandon your design! War is all a question of losing and winning."[2] She was noted as wearing male armour when captured.[3] She was wearing a mail hauberk with a sword and a shield. Earl Robert was also captured and his holdings were confiscated. Countess Petronilla was released and during the earl's continued imprisonment he wrote to her asking that she discharge the bequests stated in his father's will https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronilla_de_Grandmesnil,_Countess_of_Leicester