Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Norman nobleman and politician (born 1049)

Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester

Norman nobleman (circa 1046–1118)

Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan, also known as Robert of Meulan, was a powerful Norman nobleman, one of the very few proven Companions of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, and was revered as one of the wisest men of…