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 HEREFORD. 211 HEREFORD before March 1067,(") the grant of that county, a3also of the Lordship of the Isle of Wight( D ) being ratified (or possibly first made) in 1070. Ho was Gov- of Winchester, 1067 ; Viceroy of the North during the King's absence, March to Dec. 1067, and Gov. of York, 1068. He m. firstly, about 1C50, Adeliza, da. of Ralph de Tony, Standard Bearer of Normandy, by Adela (or Helena) his wife. She d. probably about 10C0 and was bur. at the Abbey of Cormeilles in Normandy of which he was founder. He m, secondly, a few months before his death, Richilde, widow of Balwin VI., Count ok Flandehs, relict (formerly) of Herman, Cor/NT op Hainault, and da. and h. of Reginald, Count op Hainault. He was slain 22 Feb. 1071/2, at Ravenchoven, near Cassel, while fighting for the right of his wife to the Regency of Flanders and was bur. at the Abbey of Cormeilles. His widow d. 1086 at Liege and was bur. (by her second husband) in the Monastery at Hannon. II 1072, 2. Roger (de Breteuil or Eitz-William), Earl op to Hereford, yr. son( c ) b. before 1053, sue. to his father's Ewjlish 107 -1. estates and dignities. He joined in the conspiracy of Ralph, Earl of Norfolk (husband of his sister Emma), and others, against the King whereby he was sentenced to forfeiture and underwent perpetual imprisonment. ( d ) III. 1138 ? 3. Robert (Beaumont) Earl of Leicester (who had sac. his father in that dignity, 5 June 1118), having m. Amicia (or Ita), da. and h. of Ralph de Waiieh, by Emma, sister of Roger (de Breteuil), Earl of Hereford, became in her right, Lord of Breteuil and Paci, in Normandy, and obtained from King Stephen, probably about 1138, "hurgutn Hereford et Castellum et Mum comitatum de Herefordseyrc," &c, becoming fit is presumed) thereby EARL OF HEREFORD, " cum aliis omnibus rebus el libcrtatibus qua ad omnia prcefata pertinent cum quibus Gul. filius Osberx unquam melius vel libcrius tenuit." This Earldom, however (says Vincent) " he held not long it seems." See fuller account of him under "Leicester," Earldom of. IV. 1141. 4- Miles de Gloucester, s. of Walter, Castellan of Gloucester, and Emma, da. of Dru de Baladon, of Abergavenny (feudal Lord of Brecknock) was h. about 1100 ; sue. to his father's office and possessions in or before 1130 when he was Sheriff of co.'s Glouc. and Stafford ; P.C. to Henry I. by whom he is sometimes said to have been cr. EARL OF HEREFORD which dignity, however, was certainly bestowed on (or confirmed to) him by the Empress Maud by charter dat. at Oxford 25 July 1141( e ) in the year in which she ( a ) Florence of Worcester states that he had already received the Earldom when the Conqueror left England at that date. ( b ) See vol. iii, p. 100, note "f," as to this Lordship of the Isle of Wight. ( u ) William, the eldest son, was the inheritor of the Noi'man estates and dignities. He d. s.p., legit. 1 102, at Beeco, in Normandy, but was sue. by au illegit. son Eustace, in the Lordship of Breteuil and Ivery. There was also another son (the 2d or 3d) Ralph, who was a Monk. (J) His issu.- is said by Ordericus Vitalis to have been (in his time) extinct. He appears to have had two sons [Qy. if legitimate] Reginald and Roger. See " Vincent," p. 236. (e) " This (writes Courthope) is the earliest charter of express creation extant in which the date is to be found ; it makes the said Milo ' Comitem de Hereford,' and gives to him the moat and castle of Hereford 'sibi et liEeredibus suis teneudum de me et hoeredibus meis ;' it also gives him the ' tertium denarium placitoruni totius comitatus Hereford.' " The date therein given is, however, not that of the year which both Nicolas and Courthope give as "1140," whereas it appears to be "11-11," the charter reciting the capture of King Stephen at Lincoln (effected " auxilio Roberti, Comitis Glouc., fratris mei, et auxilio ipsius Milonis et aliorum Baronum meorum"), which battle took place 2 Feb. 1440/1.