Hubert de Beaumont-au-Maine
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Hubert II de Beaumont-au-Maine, also known as Hubert de Sainte-Suzanne, was a French viscount of Beaumont and Maine, and later of Vendôme. In the 11th century he held the French territories of Beaumont, Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne.
Hubert, was the son of Raoul V de Beaumont and Emma de Montreveau.[1] He held several viscounties, including that of Sainte-Suzanne, Lude, Maine, Manceaux and Mans. During the lifetime of his father's second wife, Cana, he claimed to be her son, and always referred to her as "Viscountess".
Moved by the cause of the Count of Anjou and Maine, he played a significant role in the battle between his liege lords and William the Conqueror. Despite a four-year siege (1083–1086), the city of Sainte-Suzanne, defended by Hubert II, was the only castle that William the Conqueror never succeeded in taking.
Genealogy
The Beaumont family, later Beaumont-Brienne, dominated this part of Maine from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries.[2]