Robert de Caen , 1st Earl of Gloucester 
Robert de was born about 1090 in Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France. Robert de's father was Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England and his mother was Several Mistresses. His paternal grandparents were William I "The Conqueror" King of England and Matilda (Maud) of Flanders. He had a brother and two sisters, named William de, Mabel (Eustacia) and Elizabeth of. He had three half-brothers and six half-sisters, named Henry, Reynold de, Robert, Maud of, Maud "The Empress" Princess of, Sibylla, Alice of, Constance and Matilda of. He died on October 31st, 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. He was buried in Priory of St. James, 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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.1068 in Selby, West Ride Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1070 in England & France
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‌Robert de were married in a religious ceremony about 1115 in Gloucestershire, England. He had two biological daughters named Maud FitzRobert de and Christian of.
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Children
Maud FitzRobert de Caen
Maud FitzRobert de was born about 1117 in Gloucestershire, England.. She died on July 29th, 1189.
Christian of Gloucester
Christian of was born about 1118 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Christian of is no longer alive.
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