Robert "The Devout" Fitzharding

• Preferred Name: Robert "The Devout" Fitzharding^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}
  
• Alternate Name: Robert FitzHarding
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord de Berkeley
  
• FSID: L1DM-67H
  
• Birth: ABT 1095 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.6906 LONG: E2.4579
  
• Death: 5 FEB 1169 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
  
• Burial: 1170 in St. Augustine Monastery, Gloucestershire, England
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitzharding
  
  Biography
  Robert Fitzharding (abt 1095-1170) was a citizen of Bristol with English ancestry, who became a feudal baron under King Henry II. He was an important figure during "The Anarchy" in the 12th century. He lived a relatively long life for the 12th century and built the family's political and financial position from tolerated Anglo-Saxon gentry to trusted supporters of the new Angevin king. His family was based mainly in southwestern England and he was himself a burgess in the city of Bristol, Gloucestershire.
  
  He is given the nickname of Robert 'the Devout'. In 1141 he founded the Abbey of St. Augustine, at Bristol.
  
  As Keats-Rohan summarizes some evidence for the way in which an alliance between Robert and the future king was documented in about 1153, possibly in a short time.
  
  He joined the party of Duke Henry the future king Henry II, in 1153 "in a charter in which he occurs with his son Henry, his brother Jordan, and his nephews Jordan and David".[1]
  1153-54 Duke Henry confirmed the dower of Robert's daughter Aldeva, given to her by her husband Nigel fitz Arthur.[2]
  "Soon afterwards he was granted the lordship of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, from which Roger III of Berkeley was displaced.[3] According to both Complete Peerage and Sanders, he thereby became a feudal baron in 1155, confirmed by King Henry II. (This is the beginning of the Berkeley feudal barony, as defined by Sanders. The previous holders continued to hold their rest of their barony, which Sanders refers to as Dursley.)
  As pointed out by Patterson (p.110) these agreements were also connected to marriages whereby the heirs of both the Berkeleys and the FitzHardings, married daughters from the other family.
  
  Notes
  Robert Fitz-Harding, adhering to the Princess Maud and her son, Henry I, was rewarded by him with the manor of Berthone in Gloucester, as also 100 pounds per annum for lands in Berkeley, and afterwards the whole lordship of Berkeley and Berkeley-Hernessee, thereunto belonging to Roger de Berkeley, owner of Dursley, was then divested for taking part with King Stephen.
  By his wife Eva, daughter and heir of Estmond and his wife Godiva, had five sons--Henry, Maurice, Robert, Nicholas and Thomas--and dying Feb. 5, 1170-71. He with his wife lies buried in the choir of St. Augustine's Abbey near Bristol, now the Cathedral, which he founded in 1148, and being styled "Canonicus.
  Keats-Rohan has an entry for him under "Filius Harding, Robert".
  
  Sources
  ↑ Regesta regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, Vol.3, charter 309, p.118
  ↑ Regesta regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, Vol.3, charter 306, p.115
  ↑ Regesta regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, Vol.3, charter 310, p.117
  G.E. Cokayne et al. The Complete Peerage, 2nd ed. volume II, pp. 124-125.
  Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, pp.904-5.
  R. Patterson, "Robert fitz Harding of Bristol", Haskins Society Journal 1 (1989).
  Sanders, I.J. (1960) English Baronies, p.13
  Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest, 119-20;
  
  History of Robert Fitz Harding (1095 – 1170)
  Robert Fitzharding (c. 1095–1170) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman from Bristol who was granted the feudal barony of Berkeley in Gloucestershire. He rebuilt Berkeley Castle, and founded the Berkeley family
  
  Robert Fitzharding (c. 1095-1170)
  Robert Fitzharding (c. 1095-1170) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman from Bristol who was granted the feudal barony of Berkeley in Gloucestershire. He rebuilt Berkeley Castle, and founded the Berkeley family
  
  === !Burial: Monastery of St. Augustine, Gl ===
  !Burial: Monastery of St. Augustine, Gloucestershire, England.
  
  === About the year 1150, Berkeley Castle was ===
  About the year 1150, Berkeley Castle was granted by Henry II to Robert FitzHardinge, Governor of Bristol (who was descended from the Kings of Demnark). Maurice, the son of Robert, was the first of the FitzHardinges that dwelt at Berkeley, of which place he assumed the name, and fortified the Castle, which is placed on an eminence close to the town and commands an extensive view of the Severn and the neighbouring country.
  
  === He founded the Abbey of St. Augustine, B ===
  He founded the Abbey of St. Augustine, Bristol, in 1141, and there he waslater a canon. He was a merchant of Bristol, with great wealth andinfluence, who received from Henry of Anjou, shortly before the latterbecame King Henry II, a grant of Berkeley Castle, which was confirmed bythe king in 1155 to him as Lord of Berkeley. In 1168 he entertained, atBristol, Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster, who had arrived to seekhelp from Henry II.
  
  === Peerage of England ===
  ee: The Peerage of England containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom. By Arther Collins, Esq. Fifth Edition, Volume 4. Berkeley, Earl of Berkley.. pp1-4.
  
  URL: https://books.google.com/books?id=4jAUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=harding+Peerage&source=bl&ots=M75Ylk8k4D&sig=2zIzpqro9SBtyp4TGNzFHZ3CX30&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit4ebBpMjKAhUCFZQKHWabCUcQ6AEIRDAG#v=onepage&q=harding%20Peerage&f=false
  
  === "Robert obtained for his fidelity to the ===
  "Robert obtained for his fidelity to the Empress Maud and her son (Henry II) the lordship of Berkeley and Berkeley-Hernesse, of which Roger de Berkeley, owner of Dursley, was then divested, for taking part with STEPHEN. He entertained at Bristol, in 1168, Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster, with sixty of his retinue." (Peerage & Baronetage)
  
  === Family info ===
  Family:
  
  Son of Harding fitz Eadnoth
  Husband of Eva, Prioress and Founder of The Maudlins of Bristol
  Father of Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding, Lord Berkeley; Lord Robert Fizharding de Were; Nicholas de Berkeley; Maud (Matilda) La Veyle; Thomas FitzRobert FitzHarding and 6 others
  Brother of Elias Fitzharding; Nicholas de Meriet; Maurice Fitzharding; Agnes Fitzharding; Maud Fitzharding and 2 others
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.29, 36, 45; PUBLICATION B7G2, VOL 1, P.1, 77; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Sources ===
  The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968
  
  === The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire ===
  From "The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire", "The Earl of Berkeley", pp 70-71 (1882). Also Burke's "Peerage and Baronetage", pp 232-233.
  
  "The history of the peerage of the Earl of Berkeley, unquestionably feudal in its origins, which has been more or less recognized in its territorial character at various epochs, is of exceptional importance in bearing upon the history of English dignities, and the gradual obsolescence and final extinction of barony by tenure."
  
  "Harding of Bristol, said by genealogists to have been the son of a king of Denmark and companion to the Conqueror, has been conjectured by a modern historian to be identical with Harding (a contemporary of Harold and William, son of Eadnoth the Staller, an officer of Edward the Confessor, who survived the Conquest; but this identification can only be regarded as `not improbable.' His son, Robert FitzHarding, of Bristol, obtained from Henry, Duke of Normandy, afterwards Henry II, a grant of the hundred of Berkeley, called Berkeley Herness. He granted all the churches in Berkeley Herness to St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol (now the cathedral), of which he is the reputed founder, and where he was buried, 1171. His only surviving son, Maurice de Berkeley, obtained in 1189 confirmations from King Richard I., and from Queen Eleanor of Berkeley Herness. `to be held in barony by the service of five knights.' He married Alice, daughter of Roger de Berkeley, of Dursley, the former Lord of Berkeley. Their eldest son, Robert de Berkeley, obtained a charter of confirmation from King Richard I., in 1199. He was one of the Barons at war with King John, and died May 13, 1219. He was succeeded by Thomas, his brother, whose grandson, Thomas de Berkeley, 6th Baron by tenure, had writs of summons to parliament from June 24, 1295 (the 23rd year of King Edward I.), to May 15, 1321 (the 14th year of King Edward II.). In 1301, 1302, and 1305 he was serving in the Scottish wars with Maurice and John his son; prisoner at the battle of Bannockburn, in June 1314; Justice of West Wales, 1317. He died July 23, ????. His younger son, James, was Bishop of Exeter, 1326."
  
  === !#21> Complete Peerage-v2-p124/5*,-v5-p4 ===
  !#21> Complete Peerage-v2-p124/5*,-v5-p407fn(a),639fn(c), (FHL 942 D22cok); !AF: BAPT-END> AFN:V9STB5; !OCC> merchant-Bristol; PROP> founded St Augustine Abbey,Bristol;
  
  === [Berley2.FTW] Because of his fidelity t ===
  [Berley2.FTW] Because of his fidelity to Empress Maud and her son, who became Henry II, the Lordship of Berkeley "Hernesse" was conferred on him, after the Empress had taken it away from Lord Roger de Berkeley who had supported Stephen. Robert may be called "Robert the Devout" (Smyth). In 1141, he founded the Abbey of St. Augustine at Bristol, of which he afterward became Canon. His wife, Eve, founded a Priory of Nuns on St. Michael's Hill, Bristol, and became a Prioress thereof. He really built what we know today as Berkeley Castle in 1153.

• m. 1119

1. Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding, b. ABT 1120 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England     d. 16 JUN 1190 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
2. Nicholas de Berkeley, b. 1124 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England     d. 5 MAY 1189 in Dursley, Gloucestershire, England
3. Helena FitzHarding, b. 1124 in Bristol Castle, Gloucestershire, England     d. 16 JUN 1189 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

1. Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "Robert Fitzharding"
   Author: fmg.org
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#RobertFitzHardingdied1171B;
   Note: ROBERT FitzHarding, son of HARDING & his wife --- ([1094/96]-5 Feb 1171, bur Bristol St Augustine). Henri Duke of Normandy [later King Henry II] granted “manerium Betthone...et...terre in manerio de Berkelai” to “Rodberto filio Hard[ingi]” by charter dated to [1153], witnessed by “...Jordanus frater Rodberti et Jordanus et David nepotes eius...”[1285]. “Robertus filius Hardingi” founded the priory of St Augustine at Bristol, during the reign of King Henry II, by undated charter witnessed by "Henrico decano Moretoniæ et Mauritio fratre eius…"[1286]. A charter of King Edward II recalls the foundation of Bristol St Augustine, quoting a charter of King Henry II which was witnessed by “…Roberto filio Hardingi, Henrico et Mauricio filiis eius…”, and a charter of "Robertus filius Hardingi" witnessed by "Henri. archid. Exon. Mauricio, Nicholao, Roberto fratribus eius…"[1287]. Dugdale’s Monasticon records that Robert FitzHarding and his wife were buried in St Augustine’s Bristol (no corresponding source quoted)[1288]. m EVA, daughter of --- (-12 Mar 1171 or 1173, bur Bristol St Augustine). “Robert Fitzharding” notified his grant of “land of Combe” to “his brother Helyas” by charter dated to [1150/60], witnessed by “Domina Eva, Maurice, Nicholas and Robert his sons...Otho son of William...”[1289]. Dugdale’s Monasticon records that the nunnery of St Mary at St Michael’s on the Hill in Bristol was founded by “Eva…widow to Robert Fitzharding” who became the first prioress, during the reign of King Henry II, adding that she died in 1173 and was buried next to her husband in St Augustine’s Bristol (no corresponding source quoted)[1290]. The Complete Peerage states that she died 12 Mar 1170 (EliaO.S.) (no corresponding source cited)[1291]. Robert & his wife had [eight] children: (Maurice, Henry, Nicholas, Robert "Juvenis", Eilas, an unknown daughter, Aldeva and Margaret).
   
2. Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
   Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999, p.254.
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5. Title: Wikipedia, "Berkeley Castle"
   Author: Wikipedia.org
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Castle;
   Note: History of the castle.
   
6. Title: Birth, spouse, child Geneanet record
   Author: Geneanet.com
   Publication: Name: https://gw.geneanet.org/omhubbard?n=harding&oc=&p=robert+fitz;
   
7. Title: Robert fitz Harding (1096-1170), The Peerage
   Author: https://www.thepeerage.com/p12961.htm#i129608
   Publication: Name: https://www.thepeerage.com/p12961.htm#i129608;
   Note: Robert fitz Harding was born circa 1096.2 He was the son of Harding (?)1 He married Eve (?)2 He died on 5 February 1170/71.2 He was also known as Robert Fitzhardinge.3 Robert fitz Harding also went by the nick-name of Robert 'the Devout'.1 He was a merchant at Bristol, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1 In 1141 he founded the Abbey of St. Augustine, at Bristol.1 In 1153/54 he received from Henry of Anjou, a grant of the castle and 'furness' of Berkeley.1 He gained the title of Lord of Berkeley [feudal baron] in 1155, confirmed by King Henry II.1 In 1168 he entertained Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster, on his arrival.1 Child of Robert fitz Harding Adeva Fitzhardinge+3 Children of Robert fitz Harding and Eve (?) Helen FitzHarding1 Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding de Berkeley+2 b. c 1120, d. 16 Jun 1190 Citations: 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 124. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. 2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 125. 3. [S40] L. G. Pine, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 17th edition, (London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952), page 1441. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th ed.
   
8. Title: Lt-Col. W. H. Turton: "The Plantagenet Ancestry" Genealogic Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, 1993 (Orig 1928)
   Author: Genealogic Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, 1993 (Orig 1928)
   Note: relationships, dates
   
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   Author: G E Cokayne: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; Palgrave Mac\Mmillan (New York, November 1984); ISBN-10: 031215836X, ISBN-13: 978-0312158361
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    Author: Charles Mosley, Editor: "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage" (106th Edition), Routledge, Abingdon, 1999 ISBN-10: 1579580831, ,ISBN-13: 978-1579580834
    
11. Title: Robert Fitzharding, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-4N9G : 31 March 2023), Robert Fitzharding, ; Burial, Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England, Bristol Cathedral; citing record ID 27841702, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-4N9G;
    
12. Title: Robert FitzHarding (1095-11070), Wikipedia
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitzharding;
    Note: Robert Fitzharding (c. 1095–1170) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman from Bristol who was granted the feudal barony of Berkeley in Gloucestershire. In 1152 Roger de Berkeley was dispossessed by Plantagenet forces of the fee-farm of Berkeley Castle, held from King Stephen, for refusing to give allegiance to the Plantagenet cause. Following the victory and crowning of King Henry II, Fitzharding was rewarded by the king for his support with the grant of a feudal barony which comprised lands which had formerly been held at fee-farm from Stephen by Roger de Berkeley, including Berkeley Castle itself, which became the caput of the new barony. Some time before his death Fitzharding became a canon of the abbey he had founded. He died in 1170. The ancestry of Robert Fitzharding's wife Eva is not certain. She was founder and first abbess of the Augustinian nunnery of St Mary Magdalen on St Michael's Hill, Bristol, having endowed it with lands in Southmead. Robert's first son, and heir, was Maurice fitzRobert fitzHarding, also known as Maurice de Berkeley, born c. 1120. Duke Henry of Aquitaine (the future Henry II) had clearly regretted the effect of his action in dispossessing Roger de Berkeley of his former lands, and determined to facilitate the junction of the two families by encouraging dual intermarriages. In 1153–54 Maurice married Alice, the first daughter of the dispossessed Roger de Berkeley, who was now feudal baron of nearby Dursley.[13] At the same time Robert's first daughter Helen married Roger's heir, also called Roger. This double marriage contract, binding the son and heir of each man to marry a daughter of the other, was signed at the house of Robert FitzHarding in Bristol in the presence of Duke Henry and 16 witnesses.
    
13. Title: Parent record
    Author: Berkeley Manuscripts: Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeley Family, MS By Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (London, 1821), pp. 69-74 [on Googlebooks]
    Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/berkeleymanuscr00smytgoog;
    Note: Descent of Robert Fitzharding — Origin of Danish Emigration. — “There was asometyme an ordinance made in Denmark, that if soe the Kynge of that land had any more sons then on, then shuld the eldist sonne and heyre remain within the lande ; and the yonger brethren shulde be send with a substance of goods into other landis, and ther to live in eoviding all inconveniences of debates, that might chance atwixe them within their owne land; and for this cause this herding, a second sonne of the Kynge of Denmark, was send into this land, to Kinge William Conqueror; unto whom this Kinge William Conqueror gave grete riches, and send him to Bristowe, ther to inhabite, the yeare of our Lord 1069.” Id. p. 10, 11. Fitzharding's Rank. — Robert Fitzharding, sometime Mayor of Bristol. Id. p. 14. Harding. — Probably the son of Harold or Hardicanute. Id. Harding settled himself in Baldwin Street, Bristol, and became Mayor. He married one Livida, and had issue — sons, Robert, Nicholas, Elias, Jurden, Maurice — daughters, Agnes, Maud, Cicely. Id. p. 23. Fitzharding. — Robert Fitzharding was born in Bristol towards the end of William the Conqueror's reign; bred up in that town with Harding his father, to whose estate he succeeded, and removed from Baldwin Street to a great stone house, which he built, upon the Frome. MS. Peel, p. 23. Few small Properties in the Middle Ages. – There were not nineteen small Freeholds in all the Townships, Parishes, and Manors in the whole of Berkeley Hernesse, which Roger Berkeley of Dursley held. Id. p. 32. Marriages in private Houses. –The Marriages, Covenants, and Peace of Robert Fitzharding's son were made in Robert's house at Bristol, in the presence of King Stephen, Henry Duke of Normandy, &c. MS. Peel, p. 45. Berkeley Castle.—This antient fabrick at first comprehended only the inmost of the three gates, and what was within the same; the two utmost and all the buildings within them being the additions of Maurice eldest son to this Robert, and of Thomas the second, in the sixth year of King Edward II., and of Thomas the third, 8 Edward III. MS. Berkeley, p. 36. Consecrated Ground supposed a Preservative of Buildings upon it, in the Family. — Mr. Smyth is of opinion that the site of the Castle, being upon that of the Nunnery, it would, because upon holy ground, continue happily in the Family of Berkeley. Id. p. 36. Nunnery. —The Nunnery (at least some of the survivors of the Nuns) had a kind of hold or remaindership at Berkeley till King Stephen's death. Id. p. 42. [Three pounds laid out for cloathing three nuns. Rot. Pip. 1 Hen. II.] Abbey of Augustine, Bristol. — Robert Fitzharding began the Abbey when Henry II. was only nine years old. Id. MS. Peel. Abbeys founded for the Preservation of Family. —“Robert Fitzharding is supposed by Mr. Smyth to have established the foundation of his Castle of Berkeley by building a House to God at Bristowe.” Id. p. 62. [See Fuller's Church History, Book VI. p. 326.] Berkeley Hyrnesse. —The Grant of Berkeley Herness was made between September 7, 1150, and October 25, 1154. MS. Berkeley, p. 39. The tenure was by Barony; and Lord Berkeley takes his place and precedency from the first year of Henry II., anno 1154. The Hundred of Berkeley was appendant to the Manor; and a Leet of Resiants in the said Villages and Townships also annexed to it. Id. p. 44. Robert Fitzharding's wife and Issue. —Eve, wife of Robert Fitzharding, founded the Maudlins of Bristol, and lived and continued there Prioress. MS. Peel, p. 46. She and her husband Robert both died in 1170. Brothers and Sisters of Robert Fitzharding—Combe by Isotton Underedge— Price of Land–Estates partitioned, not descending in primogeniture — Huntingford — Peel Family. —“Elias Fitzharding was enfeoffed by his brother in one hide in Combe by Wotton Underedge; which land in 1618 was the inheritance of John Bridges. He held also one hide of land in Hunteneford, on the other side of Wotton, now (1618) the inheritance of Sir William Throgmorton, Bart. And if it be this Elias filius Hardingi, and not his grandchild, who by fine 5 Henry III. sold a yard-land in Stapleton to William Aldbury, for two markes, which was 76 yeares after, hee then survived his children's children, and died in extreme old age.— This Elias filius Hardingi had issue William, Harding, and Margaret. The said William had his father's land in Combe; aboute the wardship of whose sonne, called also William, was a suit in the 17th yere of King Henry the Third, betweene Thomas then Lord Berkeley, the first of that name, and the Abbot of Kingswood; which is all I have found of him, or of Margaret his sister. Harding, second sonne of the said Elias, had his father's land in Huntingford, who by Dionisan his wife had issue Matilda or Maud, who was married to Galfridus Vitulus, alias Geffrey Veel, a gentleman much favoured by Kinge John, and of special acceptation with many great Lords of that tyme, as the confirmacyon of that Kinge, made to him in the seventh of his raigne, doth of itself assure us: to which Geffry Veel also the Lord Robert de Berkeley, the second of that name, did, about the beginning of that King's raigne, give in frank marriage with the said Matilda or Maud, his cozen, divers other parcells of land in Hunteneford, and in the skirts of his Chace (or Forest, as it is there called) of Sincklewood: hereby that Hyde, Farme, or little Maner of Hunteneford was much enlarged.” MS. Berkeley, p. 27, 28. Children of Robert Fitzharding — Cokerford — Longstane. — Nicholas second son of Robert Fitzharding had from his father Robert the Manors of Cokerford and Longstane, and divers lands in Tykenham, co. Somerset; and other lands and tenements in Cheshull, Porthashed, Rualach, &c. ________________________________________ Harding Mayor of Bristol was born 1060 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. He died 6 Nov 1115 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Harding married Livida on 1089 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Livida was born 1069 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. She married Harding Mayor of Bristol on 1089 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. They had the following children: F i Agnes FITZ HARDING was born 1090. F ii Maude FITZ HARDING was born 1092 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. M iii Robert FITZ HARDING Lord Berkeley was born 1094 and died 5 Feb 1171. M iv Nicholas FITZ HARDING was born 1096 and died 1171. M v Elias FITZ HARDING was born 1098 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. M vi Jordan FITZ HARDING was born 1100 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. F vii Cecily FITZ HARDING was born 1102 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. M viii Maurice FITZ HARDING was born 1104 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
    
14. Title: Wikipedia, "Robert Fitzharding"
    Author: Wikipedia.org
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitzharding;
    Note: Biography.
    
15. Title: The Plantagenet Ancestry
    Author: Turton, William Harry, 1856-1938, The Plantagenet Ancestry, Phillimore & Co., London, 1928 (repro 1993 Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD), p.120, Orange - Family History Library, 674 S. Yorba Street, Orange, CA 92869-5042 U.S.A.
    Note: Being Tables Showing Over 7,000 of the Ancestors of Elizabeth (Daughter of Edward IV and Wife of Henry VII) The Heiress of the Plantagenets, with Preface, Lists, Notes and a Complete Index. NS2839263 Source Media Type: Book. [PFT:AQ] [S:Titl] The Plantagenet Ancestry [S:Auth] Turton, William Harry, 1856-1938 [S:Publ] Phillimore & Co., London, 1928 (repro 1993 Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD) [S:Note] Being Tables Showing Over 7,000 of the Ancestors of Elizabeth (Daughter of Edward IV and Wife of Henry VII) The Heiress of the Plantagenets, with Preface, Lists, Notes and a Complete Index. NS2839263 Source Media Type: Book [Page] 120 [R:Name] Orange - Family History Library [R:Addr] 674 S. Yorba Street Orange, CA 92869-5042 U.S.A. [R:Phon] (714) 997-7710 [/PFT]
    
16. Title: Record of Parent - Harding, and children
    Author: The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686. Page 351.
    Publication: Name: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36794.0001.001/1:6.84?rgn=div2;view=fulltext;
    Note: The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities.
    
17. Title: Robert Fitzharding (1095-1170), "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-4N9G : 31 March 2023), Robert Fitzharding, ; Burial, Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England, Bristol Cathedral; citing record ID 27841702, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-4N9G;
    Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27841702/robert-fitzharding Robert Fitzharding BIRTH 1095 Berkeley, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England DEATH 1170 (aged 74–75) Bristol, England BURIAL Bristol Cathedral Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England PLOT entrance to the choir MEMORIAL ID 27841702 Spouse: Eva FitzEstmond Fitzharding (unknown–1170)