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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT [II], Count of Meulan, son and heir of Waleran (or Galeran) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, seigneur of Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Croix Saint-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux. He married about 1165 MAUD OF CORNWALL, daughter of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall (illegitimate son of King Henry I), by Mabel, daughter of William Fitz Richard [see ENGLAND 2.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Waleran (or Galeran), Peter [Dean of Wimborne], and Henry, and two daughters, Mabel and Jeanne (wife of Guy IV, seigneur of La Roche Guyon). In 1173 he adhered to the young King Henry in his revolt against Henry II, but was reconciled to the king. Holding lands in both France and Normandy, the conflict between Philip Augustus and the English kings placed him in a difficult position, and eventually brought about his ruin. In 1188 when Philip took Vedôme, he captured 62 knights sent by the Count of Meulan to assist the defence. In 1191 he was excommunicated for taking action against William de Longchamp, Bishop of Ely. In 1202 he confirmed the charter of his sister, Isabel de Mayenne, to the monks of Savigny. In 1202 he revolted against King Philippe Auguste of France, and suffered the confiscation of his county of Meulan in consequence. Conversely, he had incurred King John's malevolentia before 2 April 1203, when the abbot of Saint-Taurin d'Evreux acted as an intermediary to reconcile him with the king of England. In a vain attempt to save his position, he handed over all of his estates 1 May 1204 to his daughter, Mabel, and her husband, William de Vernon, Earl of Devon. John, however, seized his English estates, and Philippe those in France and Normandy. ROBERT, deposed Count of Meulan, was living 14 November 1207; he died 16 August, about 1212. His widow, Maud, was living 25 October 1212; she reportedly died 1220-1.
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Farns of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301441, Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 390. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1 (1840): clv-clvi; 2 (1844): ccix ("Robert d’Harcourt is assumed to have married Joanna de Meulan, daughter of Robert Comte de Meulan, but none of the Preuves adduced justify such a conclusion."). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467 (pg. 465 author states Robert, Count of Meulan, married (1st) Agnes de Vendome, who died without issue, citing the chronicle of Saint-Nicaise de Meulan; pg. 466 author states Robert, Count of Meulan died at Poitiers 20 Sept. 1204). Delisle Etudes sur la Condition de la Chasse Agricole et l'Etat de l’Agriculture en Normandie (1851): 234-235. Servois Notice & Extraits du Recueil des Miracles de Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour (1856): 8. Delisle & Passy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste le Prevost 1 (1862): 208-214; 3 (1869): 146. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 377 (seal of Robert, son of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated 1165 - Sceau équestre. Boucher à ombilic. Il ne reste de la légende que les trois lettres TIS à la fin; Contre-sceau. Une tête de profil, tournée à droite. Légende: * ROBERTVS PEREGRINVS). Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 1 (1863): 220, 250-252. Réaux Histoire de Meulan (1868): 221-245 (pp. 243-244 "Robert [Count of Meulan] sa mort est inscrite au nécrologe de Saint-Nicaise, à la date du 19 août de la meme année [12041"). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 49-51 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1143-65, names her father, Amaury [de Montfort], Count of Evreux; her husband, Earl Waleran; and her son, Robert, and her other children). Collectanea Archæologica 2 (1871): 39. Charencey Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Trappe (1889): 443 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1166-1203), 444-445 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan, dated 1166-1203; charter witnessed by his brothers, Amaury and Roger), 447 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan, dated 1166-1203). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "21 Sept. [Obiii] Robertus, comes Melle[n]ti."). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 45 16 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan to Abbey of Fécamp dated 1170-81), 84,85-86 (several charters of Robert, Count of Meulan dated post-1165), 104 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1181-1200 naming his uncle, Simon, Count of Evreux), 115-116,117-118 (various charters of Robert, Count of Meulan), 119, 300 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan to Abbey of Savigny dated 1166-81). Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327, esp. 323-324 (various charters of Robert, Count of Meulan). Porée Hist. de l'Abbaye du Bec 1(1901): 367-370. Revue Catholique de Normandie 15a. Annee (1905): 12-13 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1176; charter witnessed by Roger brother of the count), 13 (undated charter of Maud, Countess of Meulan issued while her husband, Robert, Count of Meulan, was at Jerusalem). Bories Histoire de Canton de Meulan (1906): 25-38 (author states Robert, Count of Meulan, died at Poitiers where he had taken refuge 16 August 1204, and that his body was transported to Préaux where he was buried 20 September). Deville Cartulaire de l'Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 17-18 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1179), 19-20 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190), 20 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1168), 20-21 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1168), 22 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1199), 24 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan, dated 1196), 24-25 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1195), 25 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1166), 26 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1179), 28-30, 37-38 (charters of Robert, son of Count of Meulan, dated 1162), 203-204 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1180), 208-209 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190), 209-210, 210 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190). Depoin Recueil de Chartes & Docs. de Saint-Martin-des Champs 2 (1913): 282-283. C.P. 7 (1929): Appendix I, 739-740 (sub Counts of Meulan); 14 (1998): 207 (sub Cornwall). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 136. Chibnall Select Documents of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert son of the Count of Meulan dated c.1146-66), 16-17 (charter of Robert son of the Count of Meulan dated 1147-66). Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island, New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2449-2450. Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 344-345. Lacy Reg. of Edmund Lacy 4 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 16) (1971): xi. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 192-193 (charter of Maud, Countess of Meulan). Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 251-252, 430, 509 (Meulan ped.). Taylor Saint Michael's Mount (2010): 39.”
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