Robert FitzHamon , Earl of Gloucester 
Robert was born about 1050 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France. Robert's father was Hamon "Dapifer" Crevecouer , Sire deCruelly. His paternal grandparents were Hamo "dentatus (Buck-Toothed)" Sire de Cruelly and Godchildede Belesme. He was an only child. He died in At the battle of Falaise.1 General Notes
[From Burke's Peerage-see source for details]
An undoubted Earl of Gloucester, perhaps the first authentic one, at anyrate after the Conquest, is Robert FitzHamon's son-in-law, anotherRobert, 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 toJohn, later King John and husband from 1189 to 1199 (when he divorcedher) of Isabel, the youngest of William FitzRobert's three daughters. OnJohn's coming to the throne the title did not merge in the Crown for itwas not his in his own right but in right of his wife.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0967 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.1047 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1006 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0971 in Belesme, Perche, France
- b.~ 1050 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 Mar 1106/1107 in At the battle of Falaise
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‌Robert and Sybil de were married in a religious ceremony about 1084 in Normandy, France. They had a daughter named Maud.
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Children
Maud FitzHamon
Maud was born about 1094 in Gloucestershire, England. She died in 1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
1 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 @ 124-26
Further sources/citations:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 @ 63-26, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ cxviii
Further sources/citations:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 @ 63-26, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ cxviii
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