But possibly Robert missed out a generation, as he did in dealing with the family history of the Montgomerys.
Robert was an important vassal of Roger of Montgomery, the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and a major early Norman magnate.
Roger Moore | Roger Corman | Shrewsbury | Roger Federer | James Earl Jones | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Roger Daltrey | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Roger Waters | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Earl | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Roger Maris | Earl of Derby | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Roger McGuinn | Earl Warren | Earl of Pembroke | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Earl of Warwick | Beaumont-le-Roger | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | Earl of Shrewsbury |
It is named after its county town, Montgomery, which in turn is named after one of William the Conqueror's main counsellors, Roger de Montgomerie, who was the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.
On screen, Roger was portrayed by actor John Greenwood in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest (1966), part of the series Theatre 625.
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Roger then married Adelaide de Le Puiset, by whom he had one son, Everard, who entered the Church.