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Name:
Robert Fitzhamon
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Birth:
ABT 1055 Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France
Father:
Hamo Dapifer Crevecouer
Mother:
Mrs. Hamo Crevecouer
Married:
Sybil De Montgomery ABT 1084 Normandy, France
Children:
Maud Fitzhamon
Born: ABT 1094 Gloucestershire, England
Died: 1157 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Death:
10 MAR 1106/1107 At The Battle Of Falaise aged 51
Remarks:
Name Suffix: Lord Of Thoringni & Tewkesbury
Ancestral File Number: 91SN-JC
[From Burke's Peerage-see source for details]

An undoubted Earl of Gloucester, perhaps the first authentic one, at any rate after the Conquest, isRobert 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.

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