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 LEICESTER. 4] have been(*) Godechilde, da. of Rnlph (sometimes, tho' erroneously, called Roger), Skignrtk i>k ToKSt et Conches. Front bar (it" indeed she ever was m. to him.) he was separated before 1006. [ b ) He is also said (tW probably in error) to have m. Emma, a da. of Roger de Riibteuil.( l ') He unquestionably m. in or shortly before April 1096 Isabella, '') or Elizabeth (mother of all his children), da. oE Hugh the Great, Comte de Vkiim xdois (son of Henry I.. King of Trance), by Adelheid, da. of Herbert, also Comte UK Vkiimanuois. He d- 5 June 1US. and was bur. (with his father) in the Abbey of Preanx. His widow or repudiated wile (for it is doubtful which she was) m. William (he Wauenne>, 'J 1 Haul Of Suhbey (with whom she had intrigued in her husband's lifetime) who d. 11 May 113S. She herself d. 1131 aged probably about ;'j0. II. 1118. Robert (dk I3e.vr.M0XT), Earl of Leicester, called '• Le Ooczea '°) and " Le BostU " (Crook-back), "id sonJO but heir to his father's English estates and dignities, was b. 1101, being twin with Waleran his elder br. ; was knighted by Henry I. iu 1122. As Earl of Leicester he was oue of the live Earls(is) who witnessed the charter to Salisbury granted at the Northampton Council, S Sep. 1131. He was present at tLe King's death in 1 1 35. He in, in or after 1120( h ) Amicia, da. of Ralph DE Gael;') or DE Consul in Anglia faetus ') of this the Lords' committee ' found no evidence 1 [3d Hep. im the dignity of a Peer, p. 133), nor does he seem to have been so styled tho' he possessed the tcrlius denarius and tho' that diguity devolved upon his son." (") By Ordctieus Vitalis. ( b ) In that year, when still under 17, she hi. Baldwin de Boulogne, afterwards King of Jerusalem, and d. at Marash in Syria in 1097. A Godelbreda who was living 1110 as wife of Robert de Neufbourg (nephew of the 1st Earl of Leicester) is sometimes confused with her. Ex injerm. G. W. Watson. ( c ) See vol. ir, p. 211, note " d," as to the issue of this. Roger. ('■) A dispensation wan obtained from the Pope (the parties being within the pro- hibited degrees) on Condition that Count Hugh should joiu the Crusade, and the marriage was celebrated before his departure thereto, which took place in April 109b'. The Earl was third cousin to his bride's mother, as appears from a statement (which was held good) of lvo of Chartres who forbade the marriage : — " dieunt enim " says he in an epistle to the Clerks of Meulent and all in the Archdeaconry of the Piucerais, " quia Gualterins albus genuit matreni Gualeranni Comitis, qui genuit matrem Robert! Comitis, item supradictus Gualterins genuit Radulphum, patrem alterius Radulphi, qui genuit Vermandensem Comitissam, ex qua nata est uxor Comitis Hugonig, cujus filiam nunc ducerc vult Mellentinus Comes. Si autem praidicta genealogia ita sibi coha'ret, legitimnm esse non poterit coujugium, sed iucestum cou- tnbernium, nee filios pottruiit habere legitimos, sed spurios.'' Ex. inform. G. W. Watson. {") " Guizen " in La Roque, but, '• Ooczcn " in Delisle, who adds that Ducange gives goitum iu the sense of bosse. ( r l The eldest son, Waleran, b. 1101, wlw Jiif. to his father's French territory as Comte de Meulan, m. Agnes, da. of Amauri III., Count of Kvreux, and d. April 1166, aged 61, at Preaux The third son, Hugh, was in llSSer. Earl of Bedford. Of the two daughters (I) Isabel, in. Simon (Saint Liz), Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, while (2) Hawise, m. William (Kitz Robert), Earl of Gloucester. (»1 The 6ve Earls were Robert of Gloucester, William of Warenne, Raudulf of Chester, Robert of Leicester, anil Roger of Warwick. There were 40 witnesses in all, there beiog (besides these Earls and some 22 Prelates, &c), 19 Barons. See full accouut thereof in Round's ■' Geoff, tic Mundcrille," p. 265. ( h ) This Amicia was affianced to Richard (illegit. son of King Henry f.) who perished in Nov. 1120 iu the wreck of the White ship. (Ord. Vit., xii, 25.) (') "The statement in Dugdate that he hi. Ita or Amicia, da. of Ralph, Earl of Norfolk, was followed by English genealogists till Mr. Planchc [Conqueror and his Companion/," ii, p. 14), adopted the accouut by Orderie, n:., that Amicia was da. of Ralph, Seigneur de Montfort and de Gael, in Britanny, son of Ralph. Earl of Norfolk. Mr. Planche, however, seems not to have noticed that Dugdale was merely following the Cont'muator of William of Jumicgcs : ' Emma [(ilia Witlelmi, Comitis Herefordi] juncta est Rodulpho do Waiet, gencre Britoni, qui fuit Comes Norwieensis, sed quia contra lidelitatem Willelmi Regis Senioris lnunitionem Norwich, aliquamio tenere nttentavit, expnlsus et txtorris de regno Augliic, cum uxore sua Hiernsalem perrexit, relinquens unam tiliain, nomiue Ittnm, qutc procedeuti tempore nupsit Roberto,