Isabel FitzRobert Countess of Gloucester 
Isabel FitzRobert Countess of was born about 1173 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. Isabel FitzRobert Countess of's father was William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of Gloucester and her mother was Hawise de Beaumont. Her paternal grandparents were Robert de Caen , 1st Earl of Gloucester and Maud FitzHamon; her maternal grandparents were Robert II de Beaumont , 2nd Earl of Leicester and Amice de Montfort. She had two sisters named Mabel FitzRobert Countess of and Amice FitzRobert Countess of. She was the youngest of the three children. She died on October 14th, 1217 in (dsp).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.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.1068 in Selby, 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, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1035 in Deheubarth, Wales d.1093 in Killed fighting Norman English in Brycheiniog, Wales
- b.1073 in Deheubarth, Wales
- b.~ 1051 in Powys, Wales
- b.23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.~ 1006 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 MAR 1106/07 in At the battle of Falaise
- b.~ 1094 in Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1022 in St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.1060 in St Germain, Normandy, France
- b.1026 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Bures Castle, Eure, Normandy, France (murdered)
- b.~ 1173 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England d.14 Oct 1217 in (dsp)
- b.~ 1022 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 1094 in Sturminster Marshal, Dorsetshire, England
- b.~ 1049 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in As a monk at Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.1081
- b.1104 in Leicestershire, England d.05 Apr 1168 in England
- b.1050 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in The leader of 1st Crusade died at Tarsus, Cilicie
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1050 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1129 in Leicestershire, England d.24 Apr 1197
- b.1078 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
- b.1050 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in The leader of 1st Crusade died at Tarsus, Cilicie
- b.1075 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
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Isabel FitzRobert Countess of and John I "Lackland" Plantagenet King of were married in a religious ceremony on August 29th, 1189 in 1st husband 1st wife - Divorced 1199.
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