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Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester | |
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| Chief Justiciar of England | |
| In office October 1155 – 5 April 1168 | |
| Monarch | Henry II |
| Preceded by | Roger, Bishop of Salisbury |
| Succeeded by | Richard de Luci |
| Lord High Steward | |
| In office 1154–1168 | |
| Monarch | Henry II |
| Succeeded by | The 3rd Earl of Leicester |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1104 |
| Died | 5 April 1168 Brackley |
| Spouse | Amice de Gael |
| Relations | Waleran de Beaumont, twin brother |
| Children | Hawise, Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, Isabel, Margaret |
| Parent(s) | Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester, and Elizabeth de Vermandois |
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155–1168.[1]
The surname "de Beaumont" was given to him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count Robert". Henry Knighton, a fourteenth-century chronicler, calls him Robert "Le Bossu" (meaning "Robert the Hunchback" in French). The manuscript Genelogies of the Erles of Lecestre and Chester[1] states that he was "surnamed Boissu", and mentions him by the names Robert Boissu, Robert Beamond and Robert Beaumonde.
- ^ Round, J. Horace (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 04. pp. 66–67.