William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln

William de Romare (born c. 1096) (also Roumare or Romayre or Romay), Earl of Lincoln, Baron of Kendall, Lord of Bolingbroke.

He was the son of Roger FitzGerold (de Roumare), 1st Baron of Kendall, Lord of Bolingbroke and Lucy, widow of Ivo de Taillebois (granddaughter of the Earl of Marcia and Ælfgifu Princess of England, daughter of King Ethelred II of England). He followed his father as Lord of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire.

In Normandy, he was Seigneur (Lord) of Roumare.

He was created Earl of Lincoln by King Stephen after 1143. The Earl lived at both Bolingbroke and Lincoln Castle. He was the ducal constable of the fortress of Neufmarche, stoutly resisting Hugh de Gournay, then in rebellion there, in 1118 in Normandy.

Family and children

He married Hawise de Reviers, sister of Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon (Reviers) and had children:

# William de Roumare (c. 1151)
#Hawyse de Roumare (b. c. 1117?), married Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln.
#Rohese de Roumare, married Roger FitzReinfride (1114 – 1198).

The direct descendants of William de Roumare can still be found, although they might be using some of the variations of the noble surname, such as: Romare, Romayre and Romay.

References

* [S209] Somerset Herald J.R. Planché, The Conqueror and His Companions (London, England: Tinsley Brothers, 1874). Hereinafter cited as Planché, J.R.
* [S842] Harleian Society, "The Genealogy of the Earls of Chester", in The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, F.S.A. John Paul Rylands, editor. (London: Harleian Society, 1882). Hereinafter cited as "Visitiation Cheshire 1580: Chester Earls".
* [S215] Revised by others later George Edward Cokayne The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant, I-XIII (in 6) (Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2BU: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2000), III:166. Hereinafter cited as CP.
* [S215] Revised by others later George Edward Cokayne CP, VII:667.
* [S603] C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms Sir Bernard Burke, compiler, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), pg. 457. Hereinafter cited as B:xP.
*"Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines 50-27, 132A-26.