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Birth:          1102 Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England
Death:          12 Jun 1153 Warwck Castle, Warwickshire, England

Notes
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Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick; born c 1102; married Gundred, elder 
daughter of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, by Elizabeth/Isabel, widow of his 
(Roger's) uncle, 1st Earl of Leicester, and died 1153. [Burke's Peerage]

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EARLDOM OF WARWICK (II) 1119

ROGER, EARL OF WARWICK, 1st son and heir, was probably under age at his 
father's death and obtained the Earldom in 1123, before Easter [15 April), when his 
name first appears as a witness to a royal charter. He attested charters of Henry I, the 
two latest in 1131. After the accession of Stephen he was at the Easter Court [22 
March 1135/6) at Westminster; in April he witnessed the King's charter of liberties at 
Oxford, and in the same year he was with Stephen at Winchester. After the battle of 
Lincoln, 2 February 1140/1, he joined the Empress Maud of his own free will. He 
served with her at the siege of Winchester in 1141; but early in 1142 he was with 
Stephen at Stamford. He does not seem to have taken any active part in the Civil 
War; but at an unknown date he allowed Warwick Castle to be garrisoned by 
Stephen's troops, and in 1153 he was with the King when he heard that the garrison 
had been tricked by Henry's knights and the Castle surrendered. Although he was not 
to blame, it is said that he was so overcome with shame and grief that he died 
suddenly. He founded the Templars' House and St. Michael's Hospital, both in 
Warwick, completed the foundation of Warwick Priory and was a benefactor to a large 
number of religious foundations.

He married Gundred, elder daughter of William (DE WARENNE), 2nd EARL OF 
SURREY, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), widow of Robert (DE BEAUMONT), COUNT OF 
MEULAN and 1st EARL OF LEICESTER, daughter of Hugh (DE CRÉPY), COUNT OF 
VERMANDOIS. He died in 1153. His widow married, as his 2nd wife, William DE 
LANCASTER, Lord of Kendal. She was living in 1166. [Complete Peerage XII/2:361-2, 
(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Roger de Newburgh, 2nd Earl of Warwick. This nobleman, in the contest between the 
Empress Maud and King Stephen, espoused the cause of the former, but his lordship 
is much more known by his munificent grants to the church than his martial deeds. He 
married Gundred, daughter of William, Earl of Warren, and had issue, William and 
Waleran, successive earls, Henry, and Agnes. The earl died 12 June, 1153, and was 
succeeded by his eldest son, William de Newburgh, 3rd Earl of Warwick. [Sir Bernard 
Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., 
London, 1883, p. 399, Newburgh, Earls of Warwick]

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Roger, the eldest son of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Warwick, held the earldom from 
1123 until his death in 1153. As a member of the powerful Beaumont group, Roger was 
deeply involved in the struggle between Stephen and the empress Matilda (Maud). 
The next earls were two of his sons. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 23, p. 
375, EARLS OF WARWICK]

Parents
DE BEAUMONT Henry (ABT 1048 - 20 Jun 1119)
DU PERCHE Margaret (ABT 1075 - AFT 1156)

Siblings
DE BEAUMONT Roger (1102 - 12 Jun 1153)

Marriage To DE WARENNE Gundred (ABT 1124 - AFT 1166)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE WARENNE William II (1081 - 11 May 1138)
DE VERMANDOIS Elizabeth (Isabel) (1081 - Jul 1147)

Children by DE WARENNE Gundred ABT 1124 - AFT 1166
DE BEAUMONT Waleran (ABT 1140 - BEF 13 Oct 1204)

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