Roger de Beaumont Lord Pont Audemer
- Born: Abt 1046, Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France
- Marriage: Adeline Comtessa de Mellet 141
- Died: 3 Dec, sometime after 1888, France about age 842 141
- Buried: Abbey de Préaux 141
 Noted events in his life were:
• Titles: Earl of Mellent, Seigneur St. Lenfroy, de Montfort, de Brone, de Sahus, de la Crax.
• Background Information. 141
Roger de Bello Monte (Beaumont), eldest son of Humphrey de Vieilles. He is said to have furnished sixty ships for William the Conqueror's invasion of England. Roger stayed in Normandy during the invasion, as the principal adviser of the Duchess Maud. His names appears as a witness to charters of William up until 1082. At the time of the Domesday Survey, 1086, he held land in Dorset and Gloucester. About 1088, he founded the collegiate church of the Holy Trinity. He was a benefactor of St. Pierre-de-Préaux and of St. Wandrille. He married Adeline, sister of Hugh and daughter of Waleran, Counts of Meulan. Shortly after 1090 Roger became a monk at the Abbey of Préaux, he died some years later, and was buried there along with his father.
Roger had two sons, Robert, his heir and successor, and Henry who became became Earl of Warwick. He also had a daughter, Aubreye, who became an Abbess of St. Leger-de-Préaux. Roger gave land to the Abbey when his daughter became a nun there.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Leicester), Vol. VII, p. 522
Roger married Adeline Comtessa de Mellet, daughter of Waleran III Comte de Meulan and Oda de Conteville.141 (Adeline Comtessa de Mellet was born about 1014 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France and died on 8 Apr 1081.)
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