Earl of Gloucester William William Earl of Gloucester/Earl/FitzRobert 
William was born on November 23rd, 1116 in Gloucestershire, England. William's father was Earl of Gloucester Robert de Caen Earl of Gloucester and his mother was Countess Mabel FitzHamon Countess. His paternal grandparents were King Henry I Beauclerc of England and Princess/of Deheubarth Nesta ferch Rhiwallon of Deheubarth; his maternal grandparents were Earl of Gloucester Robert FitzHamon Earl of Gloucester and Princess Sybil de Montgomery. He had four brothers and two sisters, named Roger, Hamon, Philip, Richard, Maud and Mabira. He died at the age of 67 on November 23rd, 1183 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales, Castle.General Notes
Earl of Gloucester.
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.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandie d.09 Oct 1087 in Hermantruville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.11 Dec 1135 in Lyons-la-Foret, Normandie, France
- b.1032 in of Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, Normandie
- b.1086 in Caen, Calvados, Normandie d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1035 in Debeubarth, Wales d.Apr 1093 in Aberhonddu, Powys, Wales
- b.1070 in of Dynevor Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales d.1154
- b.~ 1051 in Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales d.1139
- b.23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales, Castle
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- b.1045 in Cruelly, Normandie d.10 Mar 1107 in Falaise, Normandie
- b.~ 1094 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1022 in St. Germain Montgomery, Normandie d.27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.1060 in St. Germain Montgomery, Normandie d.1107
- b.1026 in AlenAon, Normandie, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Bures Castle
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