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"HUGH DE MEULAN, styled also "le Pauvre", called "Hugo Pauper," 3rd son of Robert, Count of Meulan in France, and 1st EARL OF LEICESTER, by Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh, Count of Vermandois, was knighted before 1138, and is alleged to have been created EARL OF BEDFORD by King Stephen in 1138, who put him in possession of the Castle and Barony of Bedford, ejecting the sons of Robert Beauchamp, whose cousin, the daughter and heir of Sir Simon BEAUCHAMP, had been granted in marriage to the said Hugh. He appears, however, to have lapsed into poverty and even to have been degraded from his peerage three or four years afterwards, and at his death the title in all probability, became extinct. " Complete Peerage II:68-9, XIV:79, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)
Hugh "pauper" bro. of Waleraund Earl of Meulan m. a daughter of Simon de Beauchamp. Rosie Bevan, citing "The Beauchamps, Barons of Bedford" by C. Gore Chambers and C. Herbert Fowler published in the Bedford Historical Record Society Pub, v.1 pp.1-25

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See also:* http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I31544

Birth	Abt 1106	France
Death	Aft 1142	Bedfordshire, England
Reference No		2173889
Reference No		2203715
Reference No		60

Father	Robert Beaumont (1046 - 1118)
Mother	Isabel "Countess of Leicester" Capet (1080 - 1131)
Sibling	Aubree Beaumont (1097 - 1147)
Sibling	Adeline "Adelaide" Beaumont (1097 - 1178)
Sibling	Isabel "Countess of Pembroke" Beaumont (1101 - 1172)
Sibling	Emma Beaumont (1102 - 1157)
Sibling	Robert "le Bossu, Earl of Leicester & Hereford" Beaumont (1104 - 1168)
Sibling	Waleran "Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Worcester" Beaumont (1104 - 1166)
Sibling	Havoise Beaumont (1110 - 1124)
Sibling	Mathilde Beaumont (1116 - 1189)