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.~ 0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey (on pilgrimage to Jerusalem)
- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.1068 in Selby, West Ride Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.1012 in Flanders, France d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Nord, France
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.1009 in France d.8 JAN 1078/79 in Monastere de L'O, Messines, 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 a biological son named William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of.
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Children
William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of Gloucester
William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of was born on November 23rd, 1116 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. He died at the age of 67 on November 23rd, 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales.
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