Roscelin de Beaumont Vicomté du Maine

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Constance, named also Maud, who married Roscelin de Beaumont, hereditary vicomté of Maine, styled Vicomté de Beaumont, Lord of Beaumont-le-Vicomté (alias Beaumont-sur-Sarthe), Fresnay and Ste.-Suzanne, son of Ralph de Beaumont, by sister of Guy de Laval. Henry I gave South Tawton (Devon), to Roscelin de Beaumont in marriage with his daughter Constance. They had 2 sons.

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Appendix D), Vol. XI, pp. 105-121

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Richard I Beaumont was grandson of King Henry I by Henry's natural daughter, Constance who married his father Roscelin (Raoul). Richard was the hereditary viscount of Maine, Seigneur of Beaumont-lle-Vicomte, Fresnay and Ste.-Suzanne. Richard married Lucie de l'Aigle, d. after 1217, daughter of Richard II de l'Aigle, Sire de Egenoul. Constance de Beaumont, their daughter, married Sir Roger IV de Toeni, Knight.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 198:25-27

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Midieval Lands, Roscelin de Beaumont.
"Roscelinus vicecomes Bellimontis…cum Radulpho fratre suo" donated revenue from a mill to the abbey of Saint-Aubin d´Angers, for "filiis suis Richardo et Guillelmo", by charter dated 1156 [Angers Saint-Aubin, Tome II, DCCCXXXII, p. 307]. Rooscelin de Beaumount married Constance, the natural daughter of Henry I, king of England by one of his mistresses. Robert of Torigny names "Mathildem filiam notham primi Henrici regis Anglorum" as wife of "Roscelini vicecomitis Cenomannensis" [ Robert de Torigny, Vol. II, p. 3]. Orderic Vitalis records the marriage of Roscelin Vicomte du Mans and Constance illegitimate daughter of King Henry I Orderic Vitalis, Vol. V, p. 45, cited in Robert de Torigny, Vol. II, p. 3 footnote 3].

Roscelin married Constance Fitz Henry, daughter of Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England and Isabella de Beaumont. (Constance Fitz Henry died in 1172.)