General Notes

!Natural son of Henry I of England. [Ped. of Charlemagne]

NEWLIN, FOSTER, WAITE, MINOR LINES

!"The Consul", Earl of Gloucester, 1122-47. [Ped. of Charlemagne]

!Initially supported Stephen of Blois as successor of his father, Henry I. Robert led a revolt against Stephen in 1138 which stripped Stephen of Caen and half of Normandy.  During the next 17 years England was in a constant state of dissension between the factions wishing to be on the throne.  At one point Earl Robert was captured during a battle at Devizes.  Later in 1142 Stephen himself was besieged and exchanged himself for Earl Robert. [WBH - England]

!Earl of Mellent, who was created, in 1109, Earl of Gloucester, natural son of Henry I by Elizabeth de Bellomont. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 88]

!Chief of King Stephen's nobles.  A plot which Robert of Gloucester had been weaving from the outset of Stephen's reign came to a head in 1138, and the Earl's revolt stripped Stephen of Caen and half Normandy. [Nations of the World - England, p. 162-3]

!Lincoln Castle, Feb 1141 -- Robert comes to the aid of Ranulf of Chester who is being beseiged in his castle by King Stephen.  Robert's superior forces soon overpower Stephen who refuses to flee.  Stephen is captured and held in Robert's castle in chains.  In November Robert and his half-sister Empress Matilda met Stephen's forces outside Winchester and this time Earl Robert was captured.  Robert and Stephen were then exchanged, but Stephen is king again. The civil war is not over. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 45]

!Illegitimate son of Henry I; 1st Earl of Gloucester, m. Mabel FitzHamon; father of Maud of Gloucester, Mabira de Caen and William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester. [The Royal Descents, p. 387, 389, 396]

Patron of Geoffrey of Monmouth, the historian who wrote HISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIAE (The History of the Kings of Britain). After his father King Henry I's death in 1135, Robert was the most dedicated defender of the right of his half-sister, Matilda, to succeed their father; he and his fellow Marcher Lords refused to acknowledge the authority of Stephen, Henry's nephew and the anointed king of England. [A History of Wales, p. 124]

Natural son of Henry I; m. Mabel, dau. of Robert Fitz Hamon; father of Richard,1st baron de Creully.

b. 1090 [Judy Martin]

Earl of Gloucester; natural son of Henry I, king of England, and Elizabeth de Bellomont; m. Mabel FitzHamon; father of Maud of Gloucester. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2917]

Natural son of Henry I and a Welsh princess named Nesta who had been made a prisoner during some fighting along the Marches. He was a man of lofty ideals, of great courage and compassion, a capable leader and soldier. Present at his father's death. [The Conquering Family, p. 9]

Earl of Gloucester; d. 1147; m. Mabel, dau. of Robert Fitz Hamon; father of William Fitz Robert. [Ancestral Roots, p. 66]

Son of Henry I, king of England, by an unknown mistress. [Ancestral Roots, p. 112]

Son of Henry I, king of England; m. Mabel Fitz Hamon; father of Maud, Philip and William. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

Earl of Gloucester; m. Mabel Fitz Hamon; father of Philip Fitz Robert; died 31 Oct 1147 of fever in Bristol, England. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2968]

The open declaration of Robert of Gloucester for Matilda in 1138, and the landing of the empress herself in the following year, were followed by the secession from Stephen of the greater part of Western England. [The Victoria History of the Counties of England, p. 358]

m. Mabel Fitzhamon; father of:
1. William
2. Roger, Bishop of Worcester
3. Hamon
4. Philip
5. Richard, Lord of Creully
6. Maud who m. Ranulf de Gernons, Earl of Chester
7. Mabel who m. Aubrey de Vere
His illegitimate children were:
1. Richard, Bishop of Bayeux
2. Robert, Castellan of Gloucester (possibly legitimate)
[Suzanne Doig <smd49@*!*its.canterbury.ac.nz]

The southwestern counties rose at the instigation of Robert of Gloucester (illegitimate son of Henry I and brother to Matilda), who had thrown off his allegiance to Stephen and fled abroad, allegint that Stephen was a usurper of the throne. In the fall of 1139, Robert and his sister Matilda came back to England from abroad. The arrival converted the unrest, already manifest, into a civil war which lasted for 14 years. In 1141 King Stephen was defeated. He was sent to prison in Bristol but the civil war went on. Year after year Matilda lost ground. The death of Robert of Gloucester, in 1147, deprived hr of her chief support and the following year she retired to Anjou and gave up her struggle.  [The Fosters of Flanders, England, and America, p. 9]

Robert, Earl of Gloucester, was responsible for the building in masonry of a polygonal keep at Cardiff, probably a precaution taken against the Welsh uprising of 1136, which followed the death of Henry I the previous year, and which resulted in general civil discontent. The keep dominates the castle enclosure not only by its extraordinary height, but by its sheer size. [The Castles of Wales, p. 62]

When Robert the Consul became Lord of Cardiff Castle in the 12th century it already had a history going back over a thousand years. The Romans built their first fort on the site almost 2000 years ago.
   His father, Henry I, raised Robert to the earldom of Gloucester and made him lord of Glamorgan in 1122. The earl or 'consul' of Gloucester dominated the political scene in England after the death of his father during the long and bitter struggle for the throne between Matilda and Stephen. It was 'Robert the Consul', lauded on all sides as a brave soldier, wise statesman and patron of the arts, who is credited with having built the first stone keep of Cardiff Castle, and it was in the keep that he imprisoned at King Henry's behest, another Robert--the second duke of Normandy and his father's older brother--from 1126 until Robert of Normandy's death in 1134.
   Robert 'the Consul' died in 1147, to be succeeded by his son William. [Cardiff Castle]

Son of Henry I 'Beauclerc' and Nest verch Rhys; m. Mabel/Maud FitzRobert; father of:
1. Emma
2. Roger
3. Richard
4. Hamon
5. William 'Mafonache' who m. Hawise de Beaumont
6. Mabel who m. Aubrey de Vere
7. Philip
8. Maud who m. Ranulph 'de Gernon' de Meschines
9. Robert who m. Rohese de Clare
[Cindy Sparks <s277css@zionsbank.com, 15 Apr 2002]

b. 1074; father of Mabel who m. Jordan (Campo Arnulf) de Champernon. [Holly Forrest Tamer <bhtt141@netins.net, 14 Apr 2002]

Son of Henry I Beauclerc and Sybilla Corbet; m. Mabel/Maud/Sibyl FitzHamon. [Floyd Gingrich <gingrichfe@juno.com, 25 Aug 2001]