He supported King Stephen during the civil war with Empress Matilda. He succeeded his father in 1118 as Earl of Leicester. He and his twin brother were brought up at the court of Henry I King of England.

ROBERT de Beaumont 'le Bossu' (1104-, bur ). m (after ) ROBERT de Beaumont Earl of Leicester 'le Bossu', son of ROBERT de Beaumont-le-Roger Comte de Meulan, & his wife Elisabeth de Vermandois (1104-, bur ). Betrothed to RICHARD, illegitimate son of HENRY I King of England & his mistress Ansfride - (before 1101-drowned off Barfleur, Normandy ). The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death '31 Aug' of 'Robertus comes Leicestriæ, Amicia comitissa'. The necrology of the abbey of Saint-Denis records the death 'II Kal Sep' of 'Amicia comitissa Leecestre'. She is said to have become a nun at Nuneaton after her husband's death. She is named by Orderic Vitalis, who also names her father and specifies that her marriage was arranged by Henry I King of England after she had been betrothed to his deceased son Richard. According to the Complete Peerage, his descendants in the male line continued to hold his estates in Brittany, acquiring Laval and Vitré in the 15th century with the marriage of the heiress of Montmorency-Laval. He succeeded his brother as Seigneur de Gaël et de Montfort, in Brittany. (See below Amice de Gael's father Raoul recieved Breteuil in 1119 and married Robert de Beaumont 'le Bosso') Simon II of St Liz, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester Hawise, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester He married after 1120 Amice de Montfort, daughter of Ralph, senior of Gael or Montfort. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester She was betrothed in 1120 to Richard, son of Henry I, but he drowned off the coast of France in November and the marriage never took place. Half sister of Robert de Montfort-Le-Hédé, Seigneur de Hédé Amicie de Beaumont Le Roger, Dame de Breteuil and Guillaume de Montfort-Le-Hédéĭame, de Norwich, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119, Countess of LeicesterĪmice de Gael was heir of her father. Mother of Isabel (Elizabeth) de Beaumont Hawise de Beaumont, Countess of Gloucester Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester and Margaret de Beaumont Wife of Sir Robert de Beaumont, Knight, Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England 'Amicie de Guader', 'Amica de Gael', 'Amice of Wayer-Breteuil/', 'Amice De Montfort', 'Amice Of /Leicester/', 'Amice De Uta Waiet', 'Amice /de Montfort/', 'Amice /de Waiet/', 'Amica D' Uta (Gael Waiet) /De Montfort/', 'Amicia de Montfort', '(uta) (Waiet)'Ĭonvent of Nuneaton or Lyre Monastery, England (United Kingdom)ĭaughter of Raoul de Montfort, Seigneur de Montfort et Gaël and N.N. Amice de Gaël (de Montfort), Heiress of Breteuil, Countess Of Leicester

Red Heiress by Isabelle G. Snow