General Notes

!Lord of Crelly in Calverdos; Baron of Thoringi. [Ped. of Charlemagne]

NEWLIN, FOSTER, WAITE, MINOR

!In direct descent from Rollo the Dane.  Left four daughters, three entered convents. [The Roll of Battle Abbey]

!Lord of Tewkesbury, Lord of Creully in Calvados, Hereditary Governor of Caen; m. Sibyl de Montgomery. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 125]

Lord of Creulli in Normandy; m. Sibil de Montgomery; seigneur of Thorigny. [Falaise Roll, p. 55, 101]

The leader of the attack upon Glamorgan c. 1081 was Robert Fitzhammo, a landowner in Gloucestershire. The fate of Glamorgan was a smaller-scale version of the fate of Wales as a whole; the lowlands between the Ogwr and the Usk were seized in the first stage of the conquest, but the power of the lord of Glamorgan in the uplands remained slight for generations, and long campaigns and costly castle-building were to be necessary before the district came firmly under the authority of the lord at Cardiff. [A History of Wales, p. 106]

The lordship of Glamorgan was in the hands of the king following the death of Fitzhommo in 1105 as his dau./heiress, Mabel, became a ward of the crown; abt 1120, Mabel was m. to Robert, one of King Henry's illegitimate sons. [History, p. 112]

b.c. 1050 [Mayflower PAF]

Lord of Creully in Calvados, France; m. Sybil de Montgomery; father of Mabel. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2917]

Seigneur of Crelly in Calvados, Normandy, Lord of Thoringni, etc.; m. Sybil de Montgomery; father of Maud who m. Robert de Caen. [Ancestral Roots, p. 112]

Son of Hamon "Dapifer"; m. Sybil de Montgomery; father of Mabel who m. Robert de Caen, Earl of Gloucester. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

Founded (or re-founded) Tewkesbury Abbey. [The Plantagenet Ancestry, p. ii]

Earl of Gloucester; m. Hawise de Redvers; father of Robert. [RBodine996 <rbodine996@aol.com]

Built a timber keep on the earlier ditched motte at Cardiff. [The Castles of Wales, p. 62]

Robert Fitzhamon, the Norman Lord of Gloucester, drawn into the quarrels of the Welsh princes, defeated Iestyn ap Gwrgan, prince of Glamorgan, in 1091. He saw the strategic value of the site of the old Roman fort at Cardiff and built his Norman castle.
   The Normans concentrated their defensive works into the western half of the site, which became the 'inner' ward. At the northern end of this part Fitzhamon threw up a 'motte', or mound, 40' high and surrounded by a moat. This Keep, or strong-point, was surmounted by a timber stockade giving shelter and protection to the wooden buildings which housed the lord, his household and his garrison. Taht part of the Roman enclosure which was not included int he inner ward became the outer bailey of the castle. The shallow Roman ditch aroudn the outer defences was deepened and made wider, with the excavated soil being thrown over the curtain walls. Thus the Roman walls, lost to sight and forgotten until their re-discovery in the late 19th century, remained in part in a remarkable state of preservation.
   Fitzhamon, basing his right to the lordship of Glamorgan solely upon his conquest and not by grant of the English king, exercised the royal privileges of his Welsh predecessor, but real domination by the Normans in the area extended only as far north as the hamlets Lisvane, Llanishen and Llanedeyrn. The uplands beyond, and the rest of Glamorgan north of the Vale were still held by the descendants of Iestyn and other Welsh rulers.
   Robert Fitzhamon died of wounds received in battle in 1107, and some years later his daughter and heiress, Mabel, married Robert, the natural son of King Henry I of England. [Cardiff Castle]

Son of Hamon le Seneschal; present at the battle of Senlac and appears as witness to a charter of the Conqueror to the abbey of St-Denis, extant in Paris, along with his bro. Hamon. [Falaise Roll, p. 54-5]

Older bro. of Richard de Grenville. Renowned as the conqueror of Glamorganshire when accompanied by 12 knights in a warlike expedition against the Welsh. One of the knights who accompanied him was John de St. John. Another knight to accompany him was Sir Payn de Turbervill when they came to the aid of
Jestin-ap-Gwrgant, King of Glamorgan, against Rhys, Prince of South Wales. Subsequently, on the death of Rhys, Fitz-Hamon, turned his forces against Jestin, and conquered his whole dominion, when ch then divided among his followers. [The Roll of Battle Abbey]