Guillaume de Roumare

Guillaume de Roumare (about 1096 - before 1161), was lord of Roumare (close to Rouen), lord of Bolingbroke (in Lincolnshire) and count de Lincoln.

He was the son of Roger FitzGerald de Roumare, lord of Roumare and Lucy, widow of Yves de Taillebois, 1st baron de Kendall. His/her mother was downward of a very high saxonne family, and was heiress many fields and castles in the county of Lincoln.

Under the reign of Henri Ier

Guillaume de Roumare was guard of the strengthened castle of Nine-Market, which it defended in September 1118, at the time of the rebellion in Normandy against the king Henri I {{er}}. He fought for king Henri with the Bataille of Brémule in 1119, and in November 1120, he did not embark in the White-Nave, which saved the life to him. A little later he quarreled violently with the king in connection with the heritage of his mother. In 1122, it united with the rebellion carried out by Galéran de Beaumont, count de Meulan and others, and was opposed to the king to the surroundings of 1127, when this last gave him most of the grounds which it claimed. Thereafter, it became one of the favorite companions of the king. With died of this last in 1135, it was those which were in charge of the defense of the borders Normans.

Under the reign of Etienne Ier

Later, it took share with the administration of the duchy, being made Homme of Justice by the king Etienne. The concession of the county of Lincoln made with William d' Aubigny by the king offended it deeply, him and his/her half-brother Ranulph de Gernon, count de Chester, which by their mother, held of vast grounds in this county. Ranulf, on its side, asserted the ground possession in the north which his/her father had been forced to return to king Henri the Ist two brothers decided to act.

In December 1140, when their plan, which consisted in removing or to kill David I {{er}} of Scotland - which had received these grounds in north by treaty with Etienne - failed, they took the castle of Lincoln by the trick. Initially, Etienne not wanting to precipitate Ranulf - one of the most powerful tycoons of the kingdom - in the arms of his adversary Mathilde Emperesse, in the civil war which opposed them, decided to make a pact with the two men. Guillaume obtained the title of count de Lincoln, and Ranulf the administrative and military capacities on this county, and the castle of Derby.

A little later, Etienne, informed by the inhabitants of Lincoln that the two men were not on their guards took again the city and besieged the castle. Ranulf which was in its county of Chester at this time, rejoined the cause of Mathilde to obtain the assistance of his/her father-in-law, Robert de Gloucester. The February 2nd 1141, the battles of Lincoln saw the defeat and captures of king Etienne.

With his release, about November 1141, Etienne seems to be himself reconciled with Guillaume, because its title of count de Lincoln is confirmed to him.

A little later it left in pilgrimage to Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle. It founded the abbey of Revesby (Lincolnshire) with the assistance of his Ranulf half-brother. It was a Cistercian abbey in which he became monk and finishes his life.

Family and descent

He married Hawise (born about 1097), sister of Baldwin de Reviers, Count de Devon and girl of Richard de Reviers, lord of Reviers, and Adeline Peverel.

Children:

Guillaume II of Roumare (about 1117 - 1151), married Agnés d' Aumale, fifth girl of Etienne d' Aumale, being its second husband, they had as a descendant :

William III of Roumare († 1198), count de Lincoln, who married a named unknown woman Alice, then after cancellation of the marriage due to consanguinity, it married Philippe, girl of Jean Ier, Count d' Alençon ;

Hawise de Roumare (born about 1117), married to Gilbert of Ghent, count de Lincoln.

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