Robert FitzEdith 
Robert was born about 1098 in Devonshire, England. Robert's father was Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England and his mother was Edith FitzForne. His paternal grandparents were William I "The Conqueror" King of England and Matilda (Maud) of Flanders. He had four half-brothers and eight half-sisters, named Henry, Reynold de, Robert de, William de, Maud of, Maud "The Empress" Princess of, Sibylla, Mabel (Eustacia), Elizabeth of, Alice of, Constance and Matilda of. He died on May 31st, 1172.General Notes
(4) ROBERT the Kingís son, whose mother Ede or Edith was apparently da. of Forn, probably identical with Forn Sigulfson, lord of Greystoke (Cumberland) and a tenant-in-chief in co. York; which Edith, after her liaison with Henry I, m. Robert de Oilli, a royal Constable and constable of Oxford Castle. Robert held land in Devonshire in 1130. He supported his half-sister, the EMPRESS Maud, in the Civil War. He was a great tenant-in-chief, his servitium debitum being 100 knights. He m. Maud, dame du Sap in Normandy, widow of William de Courcy, and da. and h. of Robert de Avranches, by whom he had an only daughter. He d. 31 May 1172.
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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.~ 1098 in Devonshire, England d.31 May 1172
- b.~ 1072 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England d. in Granted Barony of Claydon by Henry I
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