Individual Details
Amicia "Amicie of Leicester" Beaumont
(Abt 1156 - 3 Sep 1215)
== Biography ==
: '''Amicie of Leicester''', daughter of Robert de Breteuil, Earl of Leicester & his wife Pernelle de Grantmesnil.
"The title of Leicester was carried on through the Franco-Norman family of Montfort. Robert de Breteuil's elder sister, Amice, countess of Rochefort and suo jure countess of Leicester (d. 1215), ultimately carried the earldom's chief seat of Leicester and half its English lands to the family of her husband, Simon de Montfort, lord of Montfort-en-Yvelines (alias Montfort l'Aumary) and Rochefort in the marchlands between Normandy and Paris. The dates of Countess Amice's marriage to this Simon, son of Simon de Montfort, count of Évreux and lord of Montfort (d. 1181), are unknown, but it had certainly ended by 1188, when she was already married to her second husband, William des Barres the elder, whom Rigord calls in that year by right of his wife Guillelmus de Barris comes de Rupeforti. Countess Amice had two sons by the Montfort marriage, another Simon, the future crusader against the Albigensians, and a younger son called Guy. She also had a daughter, Petronilla (d. 1216). Following her husband's death and with her children as minors, according to the French custom, Amice carried her husband's lands and title to her second husband, the French curial knight, William des Barres, sometimes called count of Rochefort." (Ref: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
She died in Sep 1215, and was buried at the Abbaye de Haute-Bruyère.
== Sources ==
* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
* Medieval Lands - [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#AmicieBreteuilLeicesterdied1215 Amicie of Leicester]
* Dugdale Monasticon VI, St Mary, Leicester Abbey, XVI, Historia Fundationis, p. 466.
* Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1194, MGH SS XXIII, p. 870.
* Merlet, L. & Moutié, A. (eds.) (1858) Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay (Paris) ("Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay"), Tome I, LV, p. 72.
* Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay, Tome I, p. 71, footnote 1, quoting Archives du dép. d’Eure-et-Loir, fonds du grand séminaire.
* CP VII 538-9.
* Obituaires de Sens Tome IV, Prieuré de Fontaines, p. 194.
* Obituaires de Sens Tome II, Eglise cathédrale de Chartres, Obituaire du xii siècle, p. 92.
* Obituaires de Sens Tome II, Abbaye de Haute-Bruyère, p. 224.
=== See also ===
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* http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/28187536/person/12797000511
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: '''Amicie of Leicester''', daughter of Robert de Breteuil, Earl of Leicester & his wife Pernelle de Grantmesnil.
"The title of Leicester was carried on through the Franco-Norman family of Montfort. Robert de Breteuil's elder sister, Amice, countess of Rochefort and suo jure countess of Leicester (d. 1215), ultimately carried the earldom's chief seat of Leicester and half its English lands to the family of her husband, Simon de Montfort, lord of Montfort-en-Yvelines (alias Montfort l'Aumary) and Rochefort in the marchlands between Normandy and Paris. The dates of Countess Amice's marriage to this Simon, son of Simon de Montfort, count of Évreux and lord of Montfort (d. 1181), are unknown, but it had certainly ended by 1188, when she was already married to her second husband, William des Barres the elder, whom Rigord calls in that year by right of his wife Guillelmus de Barris comes de Rupeforti. Countess Amice had two sons by the Montfort marriage, another Simon, the future crusader against the Albigensians, and a younger son called Guy. She also had a daughter, Petronilla (d. 1216). Following her husband's death and with her children as minors, according to the French custom, Amice carried her husband's lands and title to her second husband, the French curial knight, William des Barres, sometimes called count of Rochefort." (Ref: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
She died in Sep 1215, and was buried at the Abbaye de Haute-Bruyère.
== Sources ==
* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
* Medieval Lands - [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#AmicieBreteuilLeicesterdied1215 Amicie of Leicester]
* Dugdale Monasticon VI, St Mary, Leicester Abbey, XVI, Historia Fundationis, p. 466.
* Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1194, MGH SS XXIII, p. 870.
* Merlet, L. & Moutié, A. (eds.) (1858) Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay (Paris) ("Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay"), Tome I, LV, p. 72.
* Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay, Tome I, p. 71, footnote 1, quoting Archives du dép. d’Eure-et-Loir, fonds du grand séminaire.
* CP VII 538-9.
* Obituaires de Sens Tome IV, Prieuré de Fontaines, p. 194.
* Obituaires de Sens Tome II, Eglise cathédrale de Chartres, Obituaire du xii siècle, p. 92.
* Obituaires de Sens Tome II, Abbaye de Haute-Bruyère, p. 224.
=== See also ===
: ''a membership to Ancestry.com is necessary to view the link below:''
* http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/28187536/person/12797000511
== Acknowledgements ==This page has been edited according to [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acknowledgements Style Standards] adopted January 2014. Descriptions of imported gedcoms for this profile are under the Changes tab.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1156 | Leicester, Leicestershire, England | |||
| Death | 3 Sep 1215 | Ruen, France | |||
| Alt name | de Beaumont de Breteuil, de Montfort | ||||
| Reference No | 7898967 | ||||
| Reference No | 8232533 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Robert "ès Blanchemains, Earl of Leicester" Beaumont (1135 - 1190) |
| Mother | Petronilla "Péronille, Petronille, Petronella" Grandmesnil (1135 - 1212) |
| Sibling | Margaret "Countess of Winchester" Beaumont (1154 - 1235) |
| Sibling | Earl Robert "Earl of Leicester, Steward of England" Breteuil (1156 - 1204) |
| Sibling | Roger "FitzPernel, Bishop of St. Andrews, Chancellor of Scotland" Breteuil (1158 - 1202) |
| Sibling | Guillaume Breteuil (1159 - 1189) |
| Sibling | Mabel De Beaumont (1162 - ) |
| Sibling | Sister Hawise "of Leicester" Beaumont (1164 - ) |
| Sibling | Pernelle Beaumont (1166 - ) |