| Birth: | About. 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France 1 |
| Death: | 31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 1 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Henry I England b. Sep 1068 in Selby,Yorkshire,England |
| Mother: | Nesta Verch Rhys b. About 1073 in Dynevor Castle,Llandyfeisant,Carmarthenshire,Wales |
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| Changed: 24 Jun 2003 01:00:00 |
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[From Burke's Peerage-see source for details]
An undoubted Earl of Gloucester, perhaps the first authentic one, at anyrate after the Conque st, is Robert FitzHamon's son-in-law, anotherRobert, who was an illegitimate son of Henry I and was so created 1122.The Earldom passed to his eldest son, William FitzRobert, and from him toJohn, later King John and husband from 1189 to 1199 (when he divorcedher) of Isabel, the youngest of William FitzRobert's three daughters. OnJohn's coming to the throne the title did not merge in the Crown for itwas not his in his own right but in right of his wife.
- Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760
Author: by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.
Publication: 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992
Page: 124-26
- Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
Page: cxviii
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