Robert Fitzhamon

• Preferred Name: Robert Fitzhamon^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baron de Creully et de Thorigny
  
• Death: 10 MAR 1107 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France at LATI: N8.8936 LONG: E0.202
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of Creully
  
• Occupation: Governor of Caen
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Seigneur de Corbeil et de Glamorgan
  
• FSID: KDQH-YTP
  
• Birth: 1045
  
• Occupation: Gouverneur de la ville et du chateau de Caen1104
  
• Burial: 1107 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.9903 LONG: E2.1604
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of Corbeil
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of Tewkesbury
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  1075 became Lord of Glamorgan.
  
  1088 He first comes to prominence in surviving records as a supporter of King William Rufus (1087-1100) during the Rebellion of 1088. After the revolt was defeated he was granted as a reward by King William Rufus the feudal barony of Gloucester consisting of over two hundred manors in Gloucestershire and other counties. Some of these had belonged to the late Queen Matilda, consort of William the Conqueror and mother of William Rufus, and had been seized by her from the great Saxon thane Brictric son of Algar, apparently as a punishment for his having refused her romantic advances in his youth. They had been destined as the inheritance of Rufus's younger brother Henry (King Henry I); nevertheless Fitzhamon remained on good terms with Henry.
  
  1090 Fitzhamon defeated the prince of South Wales Rhys ap Tewdwr in battle. With his Norman knights as reward he then took possession of Glamorgan, and "the French came into Dyfed and Ceredigion, which they have still retained, and fortified the castles, and seized upon all the land of the Britons."
  
  1089 - 1094 Robert Fitzhamon seems to have seized control of the lowlands of Glamorgan and Gwynllwg. His key strongholds were Cardiff Castle, which already may have been built, on the site of an old Roman fort, new castles at Newport, and at Kenfig. His descendants would inherit these castles and lands.
  
  1092 Founder of Tewkesbury Abbey (1092)
  
  1101 He was one of the three barons who negotiated the truce between Henry I and Robert Curthose.
  
  1105 he went to Normandy and was captured while fighting near his ancestral estates near Bayeux. This was one of the reasons Henry crossed the channel with a substantial force later that year. Fitzhamon was freed, and joined Henry's campaign, which proceeded to besiege Falaise. There Fitzhamon was severely injured in the head; although he lived two more years he was never the same mentally. He was buried in the Chapter House at Tewkesbury Abbey, which he had founded and considerably enriched during his lifetime.
  
  Robert Fitzhamon and Brother Richard de Granville
  An imaginary depiction of Robert FitzHamon (d.1107) and his younger brother Richard I de Grenville (d.post 1142)[8]) is contained within one of the two Granville windows by Clayton and Bell[9] erected
  
  BIO
  ROBERT FitzHamon (-Newbury Mar 1107). Lord of Glamorgan. Lord of Gloucester. The Chronica de Fundatoribus et Fundatione of Tewkesbury Abbey records that William II King of England granted the honor
  
  === Robert FitzHamon, Seigneur de Creully ===
  Robert FitzHamon, Seigneur de Creully
  Also Known As:
  "Lord Of Corbeil", "Lord of Glamorgan", "Lord Of Thoringni", "Lord of Cruelly Robert /Fitzhamon/", "Lord Thoringni Robert /Fitzhamon/", "Lord Robert Tewksbury Seigneur of Fitzhammon", "Seigneur de Creully in Calvados & Torigny-in-Manche", "Governor of Caen"
  Birthdate:
  circa 1050 (57)
  Birthplace:
  Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France
  Death:
  March 10, 1107 (53-61)
  Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Hamon Dapifer Sheriff of Kent and Halwisa Elizabeth fitz Hamon
  Husband of Sibyl de Montgomery
  Father of Sir Richard de Greinville, I, of Bideford; Isabella (Hawisa); Adela of Gloucester and Maud de Creully, Dame de Creuilly
  Brother of Hamon THE STEWARD Fitz Hamon
  Occupation:
  Lord of Gloucester, Conqueror of Glamorgan, Sieur, de Glamorgan, de Gloucester, Norman lord, Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan
  
  === Royal Ancestry Mention ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
  Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great ari
  
  === Lord of the Honor of Gloucester, ===
  Lord of the Honor of Gloucester,
  
  === He was Lord of Crelly,Calvados, Normandy ===
  He was Lord of Crelly,Calvados, Normandy, France.
  === Life Sketch ===
  1075 became Lord of Glamorgan.
  
  1088 He first comes to prominence in surviving records as a supporter of King William Rufus (1087-1100) during the Rebellion of 1088. After the revolt was defeated he was granted as a reward by King William Rufus the feudal barony of Gloucester consisting of over two hundred manors in Gloucestershire and other counties. Some of these had belonged to the late Queen Matilda, consort of William the Conqueror and mother of William Rufus, and had been seized by her from the great Saxon thane Brictric son of Algar, apparently as a punishment for his having refused her romantic advances in his youth. They had been destined as the inheritance of Rufus's younger brother Henry (King Henry I); nevertheless Fitzhamon remained on good terms with Henry.
  
  1090 Fitzhamon defeated the prince of South Wales Rhys ap Tewdwr in battle. With his Norman knights as reward he then took possession of Glamorgan, and "the French came into Dyfed and Ceredigion, which they have still retained, and fortified the castles, and seized upon all the land of the Britons."
  
  1089 - 1094 Robert Fitzhamon seems to have seized control of the lowlands of Glamorgan and Gwynllwg. His key strongholds were Cardiff Castle, which already may have been built, on the site of an old Roman fort, new castles at Newport, and at Kenfig. His descendants would inherit these castles and lands.
  
  1092 Founder of Tewkesbury Abbey (1092)
  
  1101 He was one of the three barons who negotiated the truce between Henry I and Robert Curthose.
  
  1105 he went to Normandy and was captured while fighting near his ancestral estates near Bayeux. This was one of the reasons Henry crossed the channel with a substantial force later that year. Fitzhamon was freed, and joined Henry's campaign, which proceeded to besiege Falaise. There Fitzhamon was severely injured in the head; although he lived two more years he was never the same mentally. He was buried in the Chapter House at Tewkesbury Abbey, which he had founded and considerably enriched during his lifetime.
  
  Robert Fitzhamon and Brother Richard de Granville
  An imaginary depiction of Robert FitzHamon (d.1107) and his younger brother Richard I de Grenville (d.post 1142)[8]) is contained within one of the two Granville windows by Clayton and Bell[9] erected
  
  BIO
  ROBERT FitzHamon (-Newbury Mar 1107). Lord of Glamorgan. Lord of Gloucester. The Chronica de Fundatoribus et Fundatione of Tewkesbury Abbey records that William II King of England granted the honor
  
  === Robert FitzHamon, Seigneur de Creully ===
  Robert FitzHamon, Seigneur de Creully
  Also Known As:
  "Lord Of Corbeil", "Lord of Glamorgan", "Lord Of Thoringni", "Lord of Cruelly Robert /Fitzhamon/", "Lord Thoringni Robert /Fitzhamon/", "Lord Robert Tewksbury Seigneur of Fitzhammon", "Seigneur de Creully in Calvados & Torigny-in-Manche", "Governor of Caen"
  Birthdate:
  circa 1050 (57)
  Birthplace:
  Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France
  Death:
  March 10, 1107 (53-61)
  Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Hamon Dapifer Sheriff of Kent and Halwisa Elizabeth fitz Hamon
  Husband of Sibyl de Montgomery
  Father of Sir Richard de Greinville, I, of Bideford; Isabella (Hawisa); Adela of Gloucester and Maud de Creully, Dame de Creuilly
  Brother of Hamon THE STEWARD Fitz Hamon
  Occupation:
  Lord of Gloucester, Conqueror of Glamorgan, Sieur, de Glamorgan, de Gloucester, Norman lord, Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan
  
  === He was Lord of Crelly,Calvados, Normandy ===
  He was Lord of Crelly,Calvados, Normandy, France.
  
  === Lord of the Honor of Gloucester, ===
  Lord of the Honor of Gloucester,
  
  === Royal Ancestry Mention ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
  Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great ari

1. Mabel Maud Fitzrobert Of Gloucester, b. 1090 in Gloucestershire, England     d. 29 SEP 1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

1. Title: Robert FitzRoy and William FitzRobert, Earls of Gloucester, in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol.4, pg. 38 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol.4, pg. 38
   Note: Robert FitzRoy and William FitzRobert, Earls of Gloucester, in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol.4, pg. 38 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Robert FitzRoy and William FitzRobert, Earls of Gloucester, in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol.4, pg. 38 [See document in the Memories section]
   
2. Title: Robert FitzHamon in A New History of Gloucester, pg. 92 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: A New History of Gloucester, pg. 92
   Note: Robert FitzHamon in A New History of Gloucester, pg. 92 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Robert FitzHamon in A New History of Gloucester, pg. 92 [See document in the Memories section]
   
3. Title: Earls of Gloucester in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106879 [See document in the Memories section]
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106879;
   Note: Earls of Gloucester in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106879 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Earls of Gloucester in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106879 [See document in the Memories section]
   
4. Title: Robert of Gloucester (Robert FitzRoy) in the Annauls and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Vol. 2, pg. 551-552 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Annauls and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Vol. 2, pg. 551-552
   Note: Robert of Gloucester (Robert FitzRoy) in the Annauls and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Vol. 2, pg. 551-552 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Robert of Gloucester (Robert FitzRoy) in the Annauls and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Vol. 2, pg. 551-552 [See document in the Memories section]
   
5. Title: Robert FitzHamon in Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Vol. 2, pg. 551 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Vol. 2, pg. 551
   Note: Robert FitzHamon in Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Vol. 2, pg. 551 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Robert FitzHamon in Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Vol. 2, pg. 551 [See document in the Memories section]
   
6. Title: Robert FitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester, in A New History of Gloucestershire, pg. 93-94, 621 and 739 [See document in the memories section]
   Author: A New History of Gloucestershire, pg. 93-94, 621 and 739
   Note: Robert FitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester, in A New History of Gloucestershire, pg. 93-94, 621 and 739 [See document in the memories section]
   Page: Robert FitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester, in A New History of Gloucestershire, pg. 93-94, 621 and 739 [See document in the memories section]
   
7. Title: Robert FitzHamon in The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fagod, Vol. 3, pg. 3 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fagod, Vol. 3, pg. 3
   Note: Robert FitzHamon in The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fagod, Vol. 3, pg. 3 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Robert FitzHamon in The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fagod, Vol. 3, pg. 3 [See document in the Memories section]
   
8. Title: Robert Fitzhamon, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKR-J2WS : 16 December 2020), Robert Fitzhamon, ; Burial, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England, Tewkesbury Abbey; citing record ID 57449785, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKR-J2WS;
   Page: match
   
9. Title: Wikipedia: Robert Fitzhamon
   Author: Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitzhamon;
   Note: Information for Robert Fitzhamon
   
10. Title: Robert FitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester and Mabel FitzRobert (daughter of Robert FitzHamon) in British History Online (www.british-history.ac.uk) [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: British History Online (www.british-history.ac.uk)
    Note: Robert FitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester and Mabel FitzRobert (daughter of Robert FitzHamon) in British History Online (www.british-history.ac.uk) [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Robert FitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester and Mabel FitzRobert (daughter of Robert FitzHamon) in British History Online (www.british-history.ac.uk) [See document in the Memories section]
    
11. Title: Find-A-Grave: Robert Fitz Hamon
    Author: Find-A-Grave
    Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57449785/robert-fitzhamon;
    Note: Information for Robert Fitz Hamon
    
12. Title: Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, in A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and Their Descendants, pg. 17 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, in A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and Their Descendants, pg. 17 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, in A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and Their Descendants, pg. 17 [See document in the Memories section]
    
13. Title: The Peerage: Robert fitz Hamon
    Author: The Peerage
    Publication: Name: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10673.htm#i106726;
    Note: Information for Robert Fitz Hamon
    
14. Title: Seigneurs de Montgommery in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Seigneurs de Montgommery in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~ [See document in the Memories section]
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#_Toc38956180;
    Page: Seigneurs de Montgommery in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#_Toc38956180 [See document in the Memories section]
    
15. Title: Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, in the Genealogical History and Pedigree on the Montgomery
    Author: Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, in the Genealogical History and Pedigree on the Mongomery, pg. 13, 14, 23, 25, 26 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, in the Genealogical History and Pedigree on the Mongomery, pg. 13, 14, 23, 25, 26 [See document in the Memories section]