Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford

Roger de Breteuil ( * before 1051; † after 1087) was Earl of Hereford and Lord of Breteuil. He was the son of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, whose legacy he assumed in 1071.

Biography

His relations with King William I were not good. In 1075 he married - a prohibition of disobeying the king - his sister Emma to Ralph de Guader, the Earl of Norfolk. Immediately thereafter, Roger and Ralph raised in the uprising of the counts against the king. But Roger, who had to introduce his soldiers from the west, to unite with the troops Ralphs, was stopped at the Severn by the militia ( Fyrd ) Worcestershire, the Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester, Walter de Lacy and others Normans had made ​​against him in the field.

After the collapse of the uprising, Roger was brought in the same year before the Great Council. He was stripped of his title, the English possessions were confiscated, and sentenced to life in prison himself. 1087, after William's death, he was as well as other political prisoners released.

Progeny

Roger left two sons, Roger and Reginald, both of which probably he was born after his release. Reginald married Emmelind balloon, the daughter of Hamelin de Ballon of Abergavenny, and assumed their family name; He died before 1166 as the owner of the lordship and castle Much Marcle.

The rule of Breteuil was probably first to Roger, 1099 at his cousin Raoul II de Gaël, son of Ralph de Guader.