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Robert of Caen "the Counsul", Earl of Gloucester

Male Abt 1090 - 1147  (57 years)


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  • Name Robert of Caen  
    Relationshipwith Robert Alan Roy
    Birth Abt 1090  Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6
    Title(s) 1122 (Age 32)  [2
    Death 31 Oct 1147  Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Burial St James' Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Siblings 3 Siblings 
    Person ID I3612  | Roy Line, Boudreau Line
    Last Modified 13 Mar 2020 

    Father Henry I "Beauclerc", King of England and Duke of Normandy,   b. 1070, Selby, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Dec 1135, Lyons-la-Forêt, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Sibyl Corbet,   b. Abt 1070   d. Abt 1157 (Age 87 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F1742  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Maud FitzHamon   d. 1157  [1, 2
    Marriage Y  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6
    Children 
    +1. Maud FitzRobert,   b. Abt 1120   d. 29 Jul 1189, Chester, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     2. William FitzRobert, Earl of Gloucester,   b. 23 Nov 1121   d. 23 Nov 1183 (Age 62 years)
     3. Robert FitzRobert, Bishop of Worcester   d. 9 Aug 1179
     4. Harmon FitzRobert   d. 1159, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Philippe FitzRobert   d. After 1147
     6. Richard, Lord of Creully   d. 1175
     7. Mabel FitzRobert
    Family ID F1737  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Mar 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Weis (1982) states he married Mable, the daughter of Robert FitzHammond. [2]

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1090 - Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 31 Oct 1147 - Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - St James' Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1459] Hête, Thierry le. "An Unstudied Descent from Robert of Caen, Earl of Gloucester" , (Vowchurch, UK: Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 3, number 2, July 2009).

    2. [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Editionif, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982).

    3. [S2000] ------------- Sources Below not Reviewed -------------.

    4. [S1031] Lawson, Stephen M. Ancestry of Stephen Lawson - Bowen, (Online http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/bowen.htm. Printout dated 12 March 1998).

    5. [S65] Sewell, Robert James. Sewell: A History of the Sewell Family from the Earliest Times, (unknown: manuscript, March 2008).

    6. [S278] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (web: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html).

    7. [S309] Fraser, Antonia. The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975).