William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of Gloucester 
William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of was born on November 23rd, 1116 in Gloucestershire, England. William FitzRobert 2nd Earl of's father was Robert de Caen , 1st Earl of Gloucester and his mother was Maud FitzHamon. His paternal grandfather was Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England. He had two sisters named Maud FitzRobert de and Christian of. He was the oldest of the three children. He had a half-brother named Robert Castellan of. He died at the age of 67 on November 23rd, 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales.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. [Burke's Peerage]
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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.23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.~ 1094 in Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
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