Montfort, daughter of Raoul II de Montfort, himself a son of Ralph de Gael, Earl of East Anglia and Emma Fitz Osborn Both families had lost their English inheritances through rebellion in 1075. They had four children: Hawise de Beaumont, who married William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and had descendants. Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester who married Petronilla de Grandmesnil and had descendants. Isabel, who married Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon and had descendants. Margaret, who married Ralph IV de Toeni and had descendants through their daughter, Ida de Tosny. Literary references He is a major character in The Holy Thief and a minor character in Brother Cadfael's Penance, of the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters. He is also a major character in Cecelia Holland's novel The Earl. References Sources D. Crouch, The Beaumont Twins: the Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge 1986). D. Crouch, The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (London 2000). E. King, "Mountsorrel and its region in King Stephen's Reign", Huntington Library Quarterly, 44 (1980), 1–10. J. Storey, J. Bourne and R. Buckley (eds), Leicester Abbey (Leicester 2006). Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde, Handbook of British Chronology 2nd edition (Royal Historical Society, London 1961). British Library MS Royal 12.E.XXV. U Penn Ms. Codex 1070: "Genelogies Of The Erles Of Lecestre And Chester" 1104 births 1168 deaths 12th-century English people Anglo-Normans 2nd Earl of Leicester Lord High Stewards Justiciars of England Beaumont Robert