Robert de Caen , 1st Earl of Gloucester 
Robert de was born about 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France. Robert de's father was Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England and his mother was Nest verch Rhys , Heiress of Carew. His maternal grandparents were Rhys ap Tewdwr , King of Deheubarth and Gwladus verch Rhiwallon. He had a brother and a sister, named Henry and Maud of. He had three half-brothers and seven half-sisters, named Reynold de, William de, Robert, Maud "The Empress" Princess of, Sibylla, Eustacia de, Elizabeth of, Alice of, Matilda of and Constance. 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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1000 in Deheubarth, Wales
- b.~ 1035 in Deheubarth, Wales d.1093 in Killed fighting Norman English in Brycheiniog, Wales
- b.1073 in Deheubarth, Wales
- b.1026 in Powys, Wales d.1069
- b.~ 1051 in Powys, Wales
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‌Robert de were married in a religious ceremony about 1115 in Gloucestershire, England. He had a biological daughter named Christian of.
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Children
Christian of Gloucester
Christian of was born about 1118 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Christian of is no longer alive.
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