Robert Fitz Hamon

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 124:26, Robert Fitz Harmon, seigneur of Crelly in Calvados, Normandy, Lord of Thoringni, married Sybil de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewbury. ¹⁶⁰

~ The Aristocracy of NormanEngland, pp. 255, 352, 374, 377, Robert son of Haimo the steward along with William d'Aubigny were close to William Rufus. Robert Fitz Haimon, son of Haimo the steward appears on royal documents. Robert Fitz Haimon married Sybil, daughter of Roger Montgomery. Robert Fitz Haimon and his wife had at least three daughters; two were put into nunneries and the third married the eldest illegitimate son of Henry I, Robert of Gloucester. ¹⁹⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁴
William Rufus gave the whole of his mother's English estates in Gloucestershire to Robert Fitz Hamon, son of Hamon "Dentatus", Lord of Corboile in Normandy as a reward for the zeal and activity with which he opposed the pretensions of that monarch's brother, Robert, to the crown of England as well as for his services rendered to his father in the subjugation of England. Robert Fitz Hamon was a gentlemen of the bedchamber to William Rufus. He also made a descent into South Wales in the year 1091, he slew Rhys ap Tudor, its last prince, and conquerqued Glamorganshire. His name is styled, in the charters which he was granted, "Sir Robert Fitz Hamon, by the grace of God, Prince of flamorgan, Earl of Corboile, Baron of Thorigny and Granville, Lord of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewesbury, and Cardiff, Conqueror of Wales, near kingman to the King, and general of his Highness's army in France." Robert was wounded in the retaking of Falaize, in Normandy, and died shortly after in 1107.

Fitz Hamon married Sybil, the daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl fo Shrewsbury, by whom he four daughters, Mabel, Hawise, Cicely and Amice. When he died, King Henry I was not willing to have such a great estate, along with its titles, be divided amongst females. He made Hawise abbess of Winchester, Cicelia abbess of Shaftesbury, married Amice to the Earl of Brittany, and in 1109, married Mabel to his natural son Robert, whom he created Consul and Earl of Gloucester.

~The History of Tewkesbury, pp. 73-75

Robert married Sybil de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomery et Vicomté de Hiémois and Mabel de Bellêsme Dame d'Alençon.¹⁶⁰ (Sybil de Montgomery was born about 1058 in Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales and died in 1107.)