Robert de Caen Earl of Gloucester
- Born: 1090, Caen, Calvados, France 160
- Marriage (1): Mabel Fitz Hamon in 1115 in Gloucestershire, England
- Relationship (2): Unknown Mistress
- Died: 31 Oct 1147, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England at age 57 141
- Buried: Priory of St. James, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 141
 General Notes:
``
~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 63:26, 124:26, 124A:26, 125:26, Robert de Caen, Earl of Cloucester 1122-1147, natural son of Henry I, by a daughter of Gay or Gayt family of North Oxfordshire, called "the Counsul," married Maud daughter of Robert Fitz Hamon. 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 141
Robert the King's Son, styled also de Caen. He attested charters regularly as Robert "filius, Regis"; but he is twice styled Robert de Caen (de Cadomo) by Orderic (ed. Le Prevost), vol. v, pp. 121, 122. The statement in the Dictionary of Biography that Robert was born at Caen, citing Orderic, seems to be a deduction from these passages. That he was "known ... as Robert 'de Caen' from his birthplace" is also amassed by Round, Family Origins, p. 214. The name and identity of whose mother are uncertain. He was born, probably circa 1090; cr. in 1122 (June-Sep.) Earl of Gloucester and he married Maud (named also Mabel and Sibyl) daughter and heir of Robert Fitz Hamon, Lord of Glamorgan, by Sibyl, daughter of Roger (de Montgomery), 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. He died 31 Oct 1147 at Bristol and was buried at the Priory of St. James, Bristol.
~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. XI, Appendix D, p. 106
• Web Reference: Robert Caen Earl of Gloucester from Wikipedia.
Robert married Mabel Fitz Hamon, daughter of Robert Fitz Hamon and Sybil de Montgomery, in 1115 in Gloucestershire, England. (Mabel Fitz Hamon was born about 1094 in Gloucestershire, England and died in 1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.)
|
