- Robert de Neubourg
Robert I de Neubourg [Neufbourg, Novoburgo, Newburgh, Newburg, Newberg, Newborough.] (1100–1159) [ [http://usgenealogy.net/cgi-bin/geneweb.cgi?b=Isabelladc;i=43683] gives 1101-1158.] was an
Anglo-Norman aristocrat .He was the fourth son of
Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick , and inherited his father's Normandy lands, holdingNeubourg [TodayLe Neubourg , nearLouviers ,Eure .] fromWaleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester , a Beaumont family cousin, asComte de Meulan [ [http://www.gordonbanks.com/gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/p321.htm Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 321 ] ] . He was Sire du Ponteaudemer, and acquired other lands atWinfrith ,Dorset [ [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm England, Earls 1067-1122 ] ] . He took part in the Norman rebellion of 1118-1119, againstHenry I of England , aroundWilliam Clito . The immediate issue was a conflict with his feudal overlord, Waleran. He rebelled for a short time only, [ [http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/s12-XII/249.pdf PDF] ] , being burnt out of Neubourg. It was only in the early 1140s that Robert and Waleran resolved their difficulties formally.Later he was steward,
justiciar [ [http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal26792 Information on de Neubourg, Robert, Steward of Normandy ] ] andseneschal ofNormandy underHenry II of England . [ [http://www.southfarm.plus.com/pl_tree/ps14/ps14_076.htm] ]Family
He married Godehildis de Toni (or Conches) [ [http://www.southfarm.plus.com/pl_tree/ps36/ps36_380.htm] ; called also Godeheut de Toeni, Godelbreda, Godechilde [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm] ; but some biographical information about her in chronicles has been questioned.] .
Robert II of Neubourg (c. 1175-c. 1260) was his grandson. [ [http://www.illian.org/places/FamilySheets/d0364/F5841.html The ged2html ancestory of the ROBERT De Newburgh &(Unknown)family ] ]Notes
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