Beecroft/Becraft Ancestors

Hugues de Gaunt of Monfort and Adeline de Beaumont

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Husband Hugues de Gaunt of Monfort [19011] ¹

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           Born: Abt 1076 - Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, France 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1132 - Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom 1
         Buried:  - Beaudesert, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom 1
FamilySearch ID: P9H2-JF5

       Marriage:  - Normandy, France (then: Duchy of Normandy, Kingdom of France) 2

Events

• Title: Duke of Montfort, .

• Title: 4th Lord of Montfort sur Risle, .

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Wife Adeline de Beaumont [19012] ¹

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           Born: Abt 1107 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1178 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom 1
         Buried: 1178 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom 1
FamilySearch ID: L133-Z45

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         Father: Earl Robert Beaumont of Leicester [19013] (Abt 1049-1118) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Isabel de Vermandois Countess de Leicester [19014] (1085-1131) 3

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Events

• She worked as a Comtesse de Montfort on an unknown date.

• Biography: Adeline de Beaumont
Birthdate:1112
Birthplace: Leicestershire, England
Death: 1178 (65-66)
Leicestershire, England

Immediate Family:
Daughter of Robert de Beaumont-le-Roger, Comte de Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester and Elisabeth de Vermandois, dame de Crépy

Wife of
Hugues de Montfort-sur-Risle (van Gent), seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle

Mother of
Peter de Montfort;
Robert de Montfort;
Adeline de Montfort and
Thurstan de Montfort, of Beaudesert

Sister of Eleanor de Beaumont; Emma de Beaumont, daughter of Robert & Elizabeth de Vermandois; Isabel de Beaumont;

Concubine #15 of Henry I, Countess Of Pembroke; Waleran IV de Beaumont, Comte de Meulan, 1st Earl of Worcester; Sir Robert de Beaumont, Knight, Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England; Hugh "The Pauper" de Beaumont, Earl Bedford; Albérède de Beaumont and Mathilde Maud de Beaumont

Half sister of Radulf (Ralph) de Warenne; Gundred de Warenne, Countess of Warwick; William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey; Ada or Ida de Warenne, Countess of Huntingdon and Reginald de Warenne, Baron of Wormegay

Occupation: Comtesse de Montfort
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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.
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Adeline de Beaumont
Father Sir Robert de Bellomont, Comte de Meulan, Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger, Pont-Audemer, Brionne, & Vatteville b. c 1046, d. 5 Jun 1118

Mother Isabel de Vermandois b. 1081, d. b 17 Feb 1147
Charts
Some Descendants of Charlemagne (#1)(#2)

Adeline de Beaumont married Richard de Greinville, son of Richard de Greinville and Isabel Giffard. Adeline de Beaumont married Hugh IV de Montfort, son of Gilbert de Gant, Lord Folkingham and Alice de Montfort, circa 1120.
Family 1
Richard de Greinville d. 1147
Child
Sir Richard de Greinville+ d. 1204

Family 2
Hugh IV de Montfort d. a 1129
Children
Robert de Montfort+2 d. 1178
Adeline de Montfort2
(Miss) de Montfort+
Thurstan de Montfort+ d. c 1170

Sources
? Roger Granville, The History of the Granville Family (1895), pp. 30-31.
Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors


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Children

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1 M Thurstan de Montfort II [19009] ⁴

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           Born: 1125 - Preston, Rutland, England 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 1180 - Beldesert Castle, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England 4
         Buried:  - St Nicholas' Church, Henley in Arden, Warwickshire, England 4
FamilySearch ID: LK6D-M2Y

         Spouse: Juliana de Murdac 4 [19010] (1125-1182)

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Sources

1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 28 Nov 2025), entry for Thurstan de Montfort, person ID LK6D-M2Y.

2 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 28 Nov 2025), entry for Hugues de Gaunt, person ID P9H2-JF5.

3 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 28 Nov 2025), entry for Adeline de Beaumont, person ID L133-Z45.

4 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 28 Nov 2025), entry for Henry de Montfort, person ID LBYH-W7H.