Robert de Caen , 1st Earl of Gloucester 
Robert de was born about 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France. Robert de's mother was Nest verch Rhys , Heiress of Carew. He had a brother and a sister, named Henry and Maud of. He was the oldest of the three children. He died on October 31st, 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
Robert, EARL OF GLOUCESTER, by Mabel, daughter and heir of Robert FITZ-HAMOND, lord of Tewkesbury. [Complete Peerage]
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[From Burke's Peerage-see source for details]
An undoubted Earl of Gloucester, perhaps the first authentic one, at any rate after the Conquest, is Robert FitzHamon's son-in-law, another Robert, 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 to John, later King John and husband from 1189 to 1199 (when he divorced her) of Isabel, the youngest of William FitzRobert's three daughters. On John's coming to the throne the title did not merge in the Crown for it was not his in his own right but in right of his wife.
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