William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of Gloucester 
William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of was born on November 23rd, 1116 in Gloucestershire, England. William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of's father was Robert de Caen , 1st Earl of Gloucester and his mother was Maud FitzHamon. His paternal grandparents were King Henry I England and Princess Nesta Verch Rhys; his maternal grandparents were Robert FitzHamon , Earl of Gloucester and Sybil de Montgomery. He was an only child. He died at the age of 67 on November 23rd, 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales.1 General Notes
[From Burke's Peerage-see source for details]
An undoubted Earl of Gloucester, perhaps the first authentic one, at anyrate after the Conquest, 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.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0963 in , Normandie d.28 Aug 1027 in Fbecamp, Normandie
- b.0999 in Normandy,France d.22 Jul 1035 in Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.0982 in Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Of, , Normandie, France
- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.~ 0978 in Of,Falaise,Normandie
- b.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.~ 0980 in Of,Falaise,Normandie
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby,Yorkshire,England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. denis,Seine-St. Denis,France
- b.ABT 0967/0968 in Of, , Flandres, France d.BET 30 MAY 1036 AND 1039 in , , Flandres, France
- b.~ 1012 in , , , Flandres d.01 Sep 1067 in , Lille, Duchy Of Lower
- b.~ 0986 in Of Flanders, France d.21 Feb 1030 in Flanders, France
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orléans, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Meulan, Aquitaine
- b.1009 in France d.8 Jan 1078/1079 in Monastere de l'O, Messines, France
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France d.25 Jul 1032 in Meulan, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.0953 d.0993
- b.0977 in Dynevor Castle,Llandyfeissant,Carmarthenshire,Wales d.0994 in Pen Rhys
- b.1020 d.Apr 1093 in Aberhonddu,Breconshire,Wales
- b.~ 1073 in Dynevor Castle,Llandyfeisant,Carmarthenshire,Wales
- b.~ 0982 in Powys, Wales
- b.1026 in Powys, Wales d.1069 in Battle,Mechain,Montgomeryshire,Wales
- b.0982 in deheubarth, Wales
- b.~ 1041 in Powysland,Wales
- b.23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.~ 0967 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.1047 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1006 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0971 in Belesme, Perche, France
- b.~ 1050 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 Mar 1106/1107 in At the battle of Falaise
- b.~ 1094 in Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 0985 in St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France d.> 1040 in Exiled to Paris, Seine, France
- b.1022 in St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1000 in France d.> 1067
- b.1060 in St Germain, Normandy, France
- b.1000 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France d.1070 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.1026 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Bures Castle
- b.0985 in Beaumont, Normandy, France
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William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of and Hawise de were married in a religious ceremony about 1150.1 They had a daughter named Amice of.
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Children
Amice of Gloucester
Amice of was born in 1160 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. She died in England.2
1 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 @ 63-26
2 The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 @ 28-1
Further sources/citations:
The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 @ 28-1, 153-4, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ cxviii
2 The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 @ 28-1
Further sources/citations:
The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 @ 28-1, 153-4, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ cxviii
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