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Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick or Henry de Newburgh (died 20 June 1119) was a Norman nobleman who rose to great prominence in the
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Origins

Henry was a younger son of
Roger de Beaumont Roger de Beaumont (c. 1015 – 29 November 1094), feudal lord (French: ''seigneur'') of Beaumont-le-Roger and of Pont-Audemer in Normandy, was a powerful Norman nobleman and close advisor to William the Conqueror. − Origins Roger wa ...
by Adeline of Meulan, daughter of Waleran III, Count of Meulan, and Oda de Conteville.


Early career

Henry was given by his father the modest lordship of Le Neubourg, in central Normandy, to the northeast of his father's ''
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