Adeline (Beaumont) de Montfort (abt. 1097 - abt. 1178)

Born about 1097 in Beaumont, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France

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Died about 1178 at about age 81 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England

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Biography

Per the Medieval Lands Project:

ADELINE de Beaumont . Guillaume of Jumièges records that “quartum Hugonem” married “Adelinam filiam Roberti comitis Mellenti” by whom he had “filium suum primogenitum Robertum et alios”[2945]. Orderic Vitalis names her as one of the three sisters of Waleran Comte de Meulan, whom he married to Hugues de Montfort[2946]. "Hugo de Monteforti filius Gisleberti de Gant" donated property with the consent of "…Haelina uxore mea et filiis meis Roberto et Valeranno" to Saint-Ymer-en-Auge by charter dated to [1145 or 1147], which also refers to donations by "Hugonis avi mei"[2947]. Arnoul Bishop of Lisieux declared the donation of the church of Saint-Ymer to the abbey of Bec by undated charter which names "Hugo de Monteforti et Robertus filius eius et Adelina uxor eius"[2948]. m ([1120]) HUGUES [IV] Seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle, son of GILBERT van Gent & his wife Alix de Montfort-sur-Risle.

She married Richard Grenville as her second husband:

“The eldest son, Richard de Greinville, de Grenvilla, or de Grenvil (for so the name is variously spelt), married Adelina, daughter of Robert de Bellemont, Earl of Mellent in France and first Earl of Leicester in England, by Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh the Great, Earl of Vermandois, son of King Henry of France. She was the widow of Hugh Montfort.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Roger Granville, The History of the Granville Family (1895), pp. 30-31.

• Project MedLands

• Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, rootsweb.com

Acknowledgements

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