Countess Of Gloucester Isabella De Clare Countess Of Gloucester 
Isabella De was born about 1165 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Eng. Isabella De's father was William "Mafonache" Fitzrobert 2nd Earl Of Gloucester and her mother was Hawise Mabel Avis Beaumont [Countess]. Her paternal grandparents were Robert "The King's Son" Caen 1st Earl Of Gloucester/Fitzroy and Maud Fitzhamon [Countess Of Glochest; her maternal grandparents were Robert "Bossu" "The Just* De Beaumont Earl Of Leicester/Leicester and Itta [Amicia] De Montford [Countess]. She had a brother and four sisters, named Robert, Hawise, Mabel Fitzrobert Countess Of, Matilda and Amice. She was the youngest of the six children. She died on October 14th, 1217 in Dsp, Kent, England. She was buried in Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England.General Notes
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.
Isabel's situation now became that of a great heiress, for whoever she married next would gain the Earldom. John prevented her taking a second husband at all for the time being, however, and exchanged the Earldom of Gloucester with Aumarie de Montfort, son of William FitzRobert's eldest daughter Mabel, for the Comte of Evereux, which he then used as a dowry to secure the marriage of his niece Blanche with the King of France's son. Aumarie died childless and Isabel, who towards the end of John's reign married as her second husband Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex and in right of his new wife now Earl of Gloucester too, died childless after marrying in the autumn of 1217 yet a third husband, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.
The latter seems not to have been recognised as Earl of Gloucester as well as of Kent, despite his wife's undoubted possession of the former Earldom by the time of their marriage. But then she died only a few days later and her sister Amice, by now the only one of William FitzRobert's daughters still living, seems to have been recognised as Countess of Gloucester till her own death some seven and a half years later. On the other hand Amice's son Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford or of Clare (usually called the latter), was apparently acknowledged as Earl of Gloucester in addition to his other dignity from as soon as the month after his aunt Isabel's death back in 1217. [Burke's Peerage]
3rd daughter of William FitzRobert.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0999 in Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey
- 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 in Abbey Of St Grestain, France
- b.1068 in Selby, 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.~ 1010 in France d.8 Jan 1078-1079 in Monastere DE L'o, Messines, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Calvados, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng
- b.~ 1025 in Nunberholme, Yorkshire, Eng
- b.~ 1050 in Nunburholme, Yorkshire, England d.1130 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1072 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England d.1152 in Granted Barony Of Claydon By Henry I
- b.1050 in Of, Greystoke, Cumberland, England
- b.23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.~ 1002 in Torigny-Sur-Vire, Manche, Normandy, France d.1047 in Battle Of Val-Es-Dunes, Normandy, France (Killed)
- b.~ 1032 in Torigny-Sur-Vire, Manche, Normandy, France d.1100 in Kent, England (Sheriff In 1086)
- b.~ 1005 in Belleme, Sarthe, Maine/Pays DE Le Loire, France d.27 Oct 1035
- b.~ 1055 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 d.Unknown
- 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 Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine/Pays DE La Loire, France d.~ 1067 in Strangled
- b.~ 1165 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Eng d.14 Oct 1217 in Dsp, Kent, England
- b.0975 in Pontaudemer, Normandy, France d.28 Sep 1044 in Normandy, France
- b.1015 in Beaumont-Le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.29 Nov 1094 in Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.0984 in Pont-Audemer, Eure, Normandy, France d.20 Sep 1045
- b.1046 in Beaumont-Le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in Abbey Of Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.0990 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-DE-France, France d.1069
- b.~ 1014 in Meulan, Normandy, France d.08 Apr 1081 in Beaumont, Normandy
- b.~ 0994 in Mellent, Normandy, France d.Unknown
- b.1104 in Beaumont, Normandy d.05 Apr 1168 in England
- b.1008 in Rheims, Marne, France d.02 Aug 1060 in Vitry-Aux-Loges, Brie, France
- b.1050 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Sicily
- b.~ 1024 in Kiev, Ukraine d.> 1075 in France
- b.~ 1081 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.13 Feb 1130-1131 in Priory Of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1028 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.1080 in France
- b.~ 1050 in Valois, Isle DE France, France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1030 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.1080
- b.~ 1129 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.24 Apr 1197 in England
- b.1026 in Nantes, Normandy, France d.21 Dec 1057 in Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
- b.< 1040 in Gael, Brittany, France d.> 1095 in Exning, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 1040 in Herefordshire, England d.1099 in Jerusalem
- b.1078 in Montford DE Gael, Brittany, France d.Unknown in Montford DE Gael, Brittany, France
- b.1030 in Poitiers, Poitou, France d.20 Feb 1070-1071 in Flanders
- b.1059 in Breteuil, Normandy, France d.> 1095
- b.1033 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.Unknown
- b.1108 in Montford DE Gael, Brittany, France d.31 Aug 1168 in (Unknown), Leicester, Eng
- b.1008 in Rheims, Marne, France d.02 Aug 1060 in Vitry-Aux-Loges, Brie, France
- b.1050 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Sicily
- b.~ 1024 in Kiev, Ukraine d.> 1075 in France
- b.1075 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1028 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.1080 in France
- b.~ 1050 in Valois, Isle DE France, France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1030 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.1080
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