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ID: I75710
Name: Robert "The Devout" Fitzharding
Given Name: Robert "The Devout"
Surname: Fitzharding
NSFX: Lord Berkeley 1 2 3
Name: Robert Fitzharding De Berkeley
Given Name: Robert Fitzharding De
Surname: Berkeley
Title: Lord Berkeley
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1095 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 1 2 3
Death: 5 Feb 1170-1171 in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 1 2
Burial: Monastery, St. Augustine, Gloucestershire, England
LDS Baptism: 19 Nov 1932
Endowment: 13 Mar 1933 Temple: SLAKE
Change Date: 27 Aug 2003 at 10:15
Note:
Robert Fitz Harding, feudal Lord of Berkeley; granted by He nry II 1153/4 the castle of Berkeley, Glos, founder 1141 o f Abbey of St Augustine, Bristol.  [Burke's Peerage]
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Robert FitzHardinge obtained for his fidelity to King Henr y II the Castle of Berkeley, wrested from Roger de Berkeley , or Dursley, a partisan of Stephen, and thereby became on e of the feudal barons of the realm. He married Eva, niec e of William the Conqueror, and founded the monastery of St . Augustine, at Bristol, in the year 1140, and was buried t here in 1170. He was s. by his eldest son, Maurice de Berke ley. [John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britai n and Ireland, Vol. I., R. Bentley, London, 1834-1838, p. 4 69, Berkeley, of Spetchley]
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HOLDERS of the CASTLE of BERKELEY (IV)
Robert Fitz Harding, who "may bee called Rober the Devout, " son of Harding (d), said to have been a merchant of Brist ol, and of great wealth and influence, received from Henr y of Anjou, in 1153 or 1154, shortly before his accession a s Henry II, a grant (among others) of the Castle and "herne ss " of Berkeley (as above mentioned) which was confirmed b y the said Henry when King, probably in 1155 the first yea r of his reign, whereby he the said Robert (doubtless) beca me feudal L.ORD OF BERKELEY. In 1168 he entetained Dermot M ae Murrough, King of Leinster, on his arrival, at Bristol , to solicit succour from Henry II. He founded, in 1141, th e Abbey of St. Augustine, at Bristol, of which he afterward s became a canon.

He married Eve (c). He died 5 February 1170/1, aged about 7 5. His wife, who founded a priory of nuns on St. Michael' s hill, Bristol, whereof she died Prioress, 12 March 1170 , was buried with her husband.  [Complete Peerage II:124-25 , (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(d) The parentage of this Harding (living c 1125) has bee n long and hotly disputed.  He has been termed "son of th e King of Denmark" (as in the petition of 1661), "Mayor o f Bristol", and so forth.  The view now generally accepte d is that he was the son of Eadnoth (killed 1068), "Staller " to King Harold and to Edward the Confessor.  E.A. Freema n pronounces this descent "in the highest degree probable. "  Eyton (in his "Shropshire") devoted much attention to th e subject. (c) She is alleged to have been sister of Durand, daughte r of Sir Estmond, by Godiva, his wife, a pedigree which J . H. Round denounces as "obviously absurd".
Lord of Berkeley
Name Suffix:<NSFX> [Lord of Berkele
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> V9ST-B5

Father: Harding Fitzeadnoth b: Abt 1060 in Gloucestershire, England
Mother: Livida Of Gloucester b: Abt 1070 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

Marriage 1 Eve Fitzestmond b: Abt 1099 in Probably Gloucestershire, England
Married: Abt 1119 in England
Change Date: 31 Dec 2003

Children
1.    Maurice "The Make Peace" Fitzrobert Fitzharding b: 1120 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
2.    Nicholas Fitzrobert Fitzharding b: Abt 1126 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
4.    Robert Fitzharding b: Abt 1122 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
5.    Thomas Fitz Harding b: Abt 1126 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
6.    Henry Fitzharding b: Abt 1128 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
7.    Helen Fitzrobert b: Abt 1124 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
8.    Aldena Fitzharding b: Abt 1132 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
9.    Alice (Ala-Alicia) Fitzharding b: Abt 1128 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

Sources:
1.     Abbrev: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968
Title: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968
Page: 120
Quality: 3
2.     Abbrev: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
Page: 254
Quality: 3
3.   Abbrev: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: II:124-5
Quality: 3