Roger [II] de Montgommery Seigneur de Montgommery, Vicomte de l'Hiémois

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ROGER [II] de Montgommery, son of ROGER [I] Seigneur de Montgommery and Vicomte de l'Hiémois & his wife Josceline --- (-Shrewsbury 27 Jul 1094, bur Shrewsbury Abbey). Guillaume of Jumièges names "Hugo et Robertus, Rogerius et Willelmus atque Gislebertus" as the five sons of "Rogeri[us] de Montegumeri", adding that they had remained in Normandy during their father´s exile. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Rogerum de Montgommeri" as son of "Iosceline". His father's name is confirmed by the charter dated to [1079/82] under which "Roger ex Northmannis Northmannus son of Roger" donated property to St Martin, Troarn for the soul of "his wife Mabel lately deceased". He succeeded his father as Seigneur de Montgommery, Vicomte de l'Hiémois. Orderic Vitalis records that "Rogerius de Monte-Gomeri, Oximensis vicecomes"expelled the canons from Troarn, where they had been installed by "Rogerius pater suus". "…Rogerii de Monte Gomerici…" witnessed the charter dated to [1055] under which Guillaume II Duke of Normandy donated property to the abbey of Marmoutier. "…Willelmi filii Osberti, Rotgerii de Monte Golmerii, Richardis vicecomitis Abrinchensis…" witnessed the charter dated [1055/56] under which Guillaume II Duke of Normandy "in pago…Constantino, villam…Flotomannum" to Saint-Florent de Saumur. Orderic Vitalis names "...Rogerius de Bellomonte et Rogerius de Monte-Gomerici..." among the leading lords under Guillaume II Duke of Normandy. A charter dated 1066 records his pardoning the abbey of Sainte-Trinité de Rouen for a calumny. The Brevis Relatio de Origine Willelmi Conquestoris records that "Rogero de Montgumeri" contributed 60 ships towards the invasion of England in 1066. He remained in Normandy at the time of the Norman invasion of England in 1066 to assist Duchess Mathilde to govern the duchy, but accompanied King William I to England in Dec 1067: Orderic Vitalis records that, when King William returned to England, 6 Dec 1067, he appointed "Mathildi conjugi suæ filioque suo Rodberto adolescenti" to govern Normandy ("principatum Neustriæ"), adding that the king took with him "Rogerium de Monte-Gomerici" whom he had appointed as "tutorem Normanniæ...cum sua conjuge" when he had left for England for the first time and that King William granted "primo Cicestram et Arundellum...post aliquot tempus Scrobesburiensem" to Roger. [Earl] of Chester and Arundel. Earl of Shrewsbury. Orderic Vitalis records that "Rogerius de Monte-Gomerici", after the fall of "Geroiana progenies", held "totum patrimonium Excalfoii et Monasterioli" for about 26 years. The Chronique de Normandie, based on le Roman de Rou, records that William I King of England made "le Conte Rogier de Montgomery et Guillaume le filz Osber" his two "Marechaulx d´Engleterre" after the conquest of England. He became Sire d´Alençon, de iure uxoris, after the death in 1070 of her paternal uncle Ives Bishop of Seés. As "Rogerus comes Salosberiensis" he witnessed a charter of King William I giving the barony of Plessis to the church of Bayeux dated 24 Dec 1074. "Rogerius comes…et sua uxor Mabilia atque suus filius Rotbertus" donated property to Notre-Dame de Bellême by charter dated to [1070/79]. Orderic Vitalis records that "V Kal Mar" in 1083 "Rogerius comes" declared to "Guarinum vicecomitem et Picotem de Saia cæterosque proceres suos" his intention of founding the abbey of Saint-Pierre. He allied himself with Robert Duke of Normandy at the time of the latter's rebellion against King William II in 1089. Guillaume of Jumièges records that "Rogerius de Monte-gumerii pater Roberti de Belesmo" founded "in honorem sancti Martini ecclesias duas, unam in Sagiensis urbis suburbio, alteram in vico suo Troardo" and "tertiam...apud Almanachias ad opus sanctiomonialium". Orderic Vitalis records the death "VI Kal Aug" in 1094 "Rogerius...comes"and his burial at Shrewsbury abbey.

m firstly ([1050/54]) MABILE d'Alençon, daughter of GUILLAUME "Talvas" Sire d'Alençon & his first wife Hildeburge ---(-murdered Bures 2 Dec 1079, bur 5 Dec 1079 Troarn). Guillaume of Jumièges records that "Willelmus cognomento Talavatius" married "Hildeburge...filiam Arnulfi" by whom he had "Arnulfum et Mabiliam" and whom he had strangled "a duobus parasitis". Guillaume of Jumièges records that "Willelmus Talavatius", after he was exiled, arranged the marriage of "filiam suam...Mabiliam" to "Rogerium de Monte-Gummeri" who received him in his household. Orderic Vitalis records that "Ivo filius Willermi Belesmensis...neptem...Mabiliam" married "Rogerius de Monte-Gomerici Oximensium vicecomes" who through her obtained "magnam partem possessionis Willermi Belesmensis", adding that Mabile was "a forceful and worldly woman, cunning, garrulous and extremely cruel" ("potens et sæcularis, callida et loquax, nimiumque crudelis"). "Rogerius comes…et sua uxor Mabilia atque suus filius Rotbertus" donated property to Notre-Dame de Bellême by charter dated to [1070/79]. Orderic Vitalis records that she was murdered by Hugh Bunel, son of Robert "de Jalgeio" from whom she had taken his castle, who found her "relaxing in bed after a bath [and] struck off her head with his sword". "Roger ex Northmannis Northmannus son of Roger" donated property to St Martin, Troarn for the soul of "his wife Mabel lately deceased" by charter dated to [1079/82], subscribed by "Rogerii comitis, Rotberti filii eius, Hugonis, Rogerii, Philippi, Arnulfis [filiorum eius]".

m secondly ADELAIS du Puiset [de Breteuil], daughter of ERARD [I] Comte de Breteuil, Vicomte de Chartres & his wife Humberge ---. Orderic Vitalis records that, after the death of his first wife, "Rogerius [de Monte-Gomerici]" married secondly "Adelaisam Ebrardi de Pusacio...filiam", by whom he had "unum...filium...Ebrardum...inter regales capellanos usque hodie...in aula Guillelmi et Henrici, Angliæ regum"for about 26 years.

Earl Roger & his first wife had ten children: Roger, Robert, Hugh, Roger, Philippe, Arnoul, Emma, Mathilde, Mabile and Sibylle.

Earl Roger & his second wife had one child: Everard.

Earl Roger had one [Illegitimate] son by an unknown mistress: Hugues. ¹

  Events

• Title: Sire d'Alençon, 1070 To 1094. ¹

Roger married Mabile de Bellême, daughter of Guillaume II de Bellême Sire d'Alençon and Hildeburge.¹ (Mabile de Bellême died on 2 Dec 1079 in Château de Bures, Bures-sur Dives, Troam, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, 14670, FR and was buried on 5 Dec 1079 in Abbaye Saint-Martin de Troarn, Troam, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, 14670, FR.). The cause of her death was Murdered by Hugh Bunel.

Roger next married Adélaïde de Breteuil, daughter of Éverard de Breteuil Comte de Breteuil and Unknown, after 1082.¹