Name Suffix: Seigneur De Pont-Audemer Ancestral File Number: 9G81-GM [From "The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families"]The well-known Roger de Beaumont held Sturminster Marshal, Dorset, in 1086; it descended to the counts ofMeulan through Roger's eldest son, Robert count of Meulan. That Roger took his name from Beaumont is a part of the general history of Normandy. It follows that Roger's descendants, the counts of Meulan, the earls of Leicester, and theearls of Warwick, all derive from Beaumont-le-Roger.