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- Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury was born in 1005. He was the son of seigneur de Montgommery Hugues de Montgomery and Josseline de Beaumont.3 Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury married Mabille de Bellême, comtesse d'Alençon, daughter of Guillaume II "Talvas", comte d'Alençon and Hildeburge (?).3 Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury invited Gislebert, Abbot of Chatillon, with his monks, to Froarn, and expelled thence the twelve canons who had been placed there by his father in 1022, and had abandoned themselves to gluttony, debauchery, carnal pleasures, and worldly occupations, in 1056.4 He was a witness where Humphrey I "the Bearded", seigneur de Bohon with William, Duke of Normandy, at the Hogue de Biville, along with Roger de Montgomery and William, son of Osbern in 1062.5 Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury was not, contrary to some historians, a companion of William the Conqueror in the conquest of England in 1066.4 He was created Earl of Arundel and Shewsbury by his "distant" (3rd) cousin, William the Conqueror, in December 1067.6 Earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury at England between December 1067 and 1094.6 He was acquired Alençon and Bellesme by right of his wife, Mable Talvas, on the death of her uncle, Ivo de Belesme, Bishop of Séez in 1070.4 He drafted a charter in favour of St. Stephen's at Caen in 1082. He married Adelaide de Puiset, daughter of Everard de Puiset, after 1082.4 Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury died in 1094 at the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, Shrewsbury, England, at age 89 years. For three days before his death wholly applied himself to divine conference and devout prayers with the rest of the community, expiring, in the odour of sanctity.
- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p353.htm#i4643
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