Maud (Mabel) FITZHAMON, Countess Of Glo

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• AFN: V9V7-C2
• FamilySearch ID: 9CZC-NNC
• Royal House: ; FitzHamon
• Title (Nobility): ; Countess of Gloucester
• Name: Matilda
• Name: Sibylle

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Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Vol. 3 pg 85
... daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewksbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Cruelly in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury.

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Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
MABEL [Matilda or Sibylle] FitzRobert, daughter & heiress of ROBERT FitzHamon Lord of Glamorgan and Gloucester & his wife Sibylle de Montgomery (-[29 Sep] 1157). The Chronica de Fundatoribus et Fundatione of Tewkesbury Abbey names (in order) "Mabiliam, Hawysiam, Ceciliam, Amisiam" as the four daughters of "Robertum filium Haymonis, dominum de Astramervilla in Normannia", recording that Mabile married Robert Fitzroy. Orderic Vitalis records that "Rodbertus Henrici regis filius" married "Rodberto Haimonis filio...[et] Sibiliam Rogerii comitis filiam...filiam...Mathildem". Robert of Torigny records that "filia Roberti Belismensis" was the mother of "Rogerius Wigornensis episcopus", son of "Robertus comes Gloecestrensis?filius primi Henrici regis Anglorum", clarifying that the bishop's grandfather was "Robertus filius Haimonis dominus de Torigneio". The Annals of Tewkesbury record that "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestri?" died in 1157.

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Wiki (March 2015):
Mabel FitzRobert, Countess of Gloucester (1090 - 29 September 1157) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman, and a wealthy heiress who brought the lordship of Gloucester, among other prestigious honours to her husband, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester upon their marriage. He was the illegitimate son of King Henry I of England.

Her father was Robert Fitzhamon, Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan. As she was the eldest daughter of four, and her younger sisters had become nuns, Mabel inherited all of his honours and properties upon his death in 1107.

As Countess of Gloucester, Mabel was significant politically and she exercised an important administrative role in the lordship.

Mabel was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1090, the eldest of the four daughters of Robert FitzHamon, Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan, and his wife, Sybil de Montgomery. Her three younger sisters, Hawise, Cecile and Amice all became nuns, making Mabel the sole heiress to her father's lordships and vast estates in England, Wales, and Normandy.

Her paternal grandfather was Hamon, Sheriff of Kent, and her maternal grandparents were Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel Talvas of Belleme.

In March 1107, her father died in Normandy, leaving his lordships and estates to Mabel. Her mother married secondly Jean, Sire de Raimes.

In 1107, Mabel married Robert of Caen, an illegitimate son of King Henry I by his mistress Sybil Corbet. Their marriage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis who also names her parents. He would later become an important figure during the turbulent period in English history known as The Anarchy which occurred in the reign of King Stephen of England. Throughout the civil war, he was a loyal supporter of his half-sister Empress Matilda who would make him the chief commander of her army. He had originally sworn fealty to King Stephen, but after quarrelling with him in 1137, his English and Welsh possessions were forfeited, and thus he joined forces with Matilda.

Mabel brought to her husband the honours of Gloucester in England, Glamorgan in Wales, Sainte-Scholasse-sur-Sarthe, Evrecy and Creully in Normandy. By right of his wife, he became the 2nd Lord of Glamorgan, and gained possession of her father's castle of Cardiff in Wales. In August 1122, he was created 1st Earl of Gloucester; henceforth, Mabel was styled as Countess of Gloucester.

As countess, Mabel exercised a prominent administrative role in the Gloucester lordship. Her political importance was evident when she was made responsible for seeing that her husband upheld his side of the agreement in the treaty he made with Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford. She also witnessed four of Robert's charters; as well as giving her personal consent for his foundation of the Abbey of Margam, whose endowment came from her own lands. Later, after Robert's death, Mabel assumed control of the honour of Gloucester's Norman lands on behalf of her eldest son William.

Together Robert and Mabel had at least eight children:
William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (23 November 1112- 23 November 1183), married Hawise de Beaumont by
whom he had five children, including Isabella of Gloucester, the first wife of King John of England, and Amice FitzRobert,
Countess of Gloucester.
Roger, Bishop of Worcester (died 9 August 1179)
Hamon FitzRobert, (died 1159), killed in the Siege of Toulouse.
Robert FitzRobert of Ilchester (died before 1157), married Hawise de Redvers, by whom he had a daughter Mabel who in
her turn married Jordan de Cambernon.
Richard FitzRobert, Sire de Creully (died 1175), inherited the seigneury of Creully from Mabel, and became the ancestor of
the Sires de Creully. He married the daughter of Hughes de Montfort by whom he had five children.
Philip FitzRobert, (died after 1147), Castellan of Cricklade. He took part in the Second Crusade.
Maud FitzRobert (died 29 July 1190), married Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester by whom she had three children.
Mabel FitzRobert, married Aubrey de Vere

Robert also sired an illegitimate son, Richard, Bishop of Bayeux by Isabel de Douvres.

Mabel's husband died on 31 October 1147. Mabel herself died on 29 September 1157 in Bristol at the age of sixty-seven years.
Countess of Glo

Maud married Robert FITZROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester in Jun 1119 in Lisieux, Calvados, Duchy of Normandy, France. Robert (son of King Henry I Beauclerc Of Angevin ENGLAND, Of England and Concubine Edith Fitzforne SIGULFSON) was born in 1090 in Caen, Calvados, France; was christened in in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died on 31 Oct 1147 in Bristol Castle, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in 1147 in St. James Priory, Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert FITZROBERT, Of Ilchester was born in 1112 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died on 13 Oct 1170 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
2. Roger FITZROBERT, Bishop of Worcester was born about 1112 in Centre, France; died on 9 Aug 1179 in Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, Touraine, France; was buried in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France.
3. Matilda FITZROBERT was born about 1114 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Jul 1189 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in 1189 in Chester Cathedral, Chester, Cheshire, England.
4. William "Mafonache" FITZROBERT,, 2nd Earl of Gloucester was born on 23 Nov 1116 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales; was buried after 23 Nov 1183 in Keynsham, Somerset, England.
5. Maud Fitzrobert De CAEN, [Countess Of Chester was born about 1117 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Jul 1189 in Chester, Cheshire, England.
6. Christian Of GLOUCESTER was born about 1118 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died in Dec.
7. Robert Castellan Of GLOUCESTER was born about 1120 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died after 1160.
8. Mabel FITZROBERT was born about 1121 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died in Unknown in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
9. Phillip FITZ-ROBERT, Lord Grey was born about 1122 in Gloucestershire, England; died in 1167 in England.
10. Richard FITZROBERT, Lord of Cruelly was born in 1125 in Cruelly, Normandy, France; died in 1175 in Gloucester, Gloucester, England.
11. Hamon FITZROBERT was born in 1127 in Of Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; was christened on 30 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England; died in 1159 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France; was buried in 1159 in Keynsham, Somerset, England.
12. Emma De MORTAIGNE was born about 1157; died in Deceased.

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• AFN: 91SN-JC
• FamilySearch ID: KDQH-YTP
• Info 2: Earl Of Gloucester, Lord Of Creully In Calvados, Govenor Of Caen
• Reference Number: ems-jw

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[From Burke's Peerage-see source for details]

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

Robert married Sybil DE MONTGOMERY about 1084 in Normandy, France. Sybil (daughter of Roger De MONTGOMERY, 1st Earl Of Shrewsbury and Mabel De Talvas D' ALENCON) was born in 1062 in Saint-Germain-de-Montgommery, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France; died on 10 Mar 1107 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Abbey of St. Grestain, Fatouville-Grestain, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9V1-X5
• FamilySearch ID: LBH5-S3X
• Marriage Fact: See Note Page
• Name: MAUD

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Facts about this person:

Alt. Born Abt. 1066
Ancestral File Number: V9V1-X5

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• Name: Hamo De CREVEQUER
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: 8D459558C3504F88B3F76F56D08C9E5E700A

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Fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

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Hamo Dapifer

Torigny-sur-Vire: Manche, arr. St-Lo, cant. Torigny.

An account of Hamo, who was son of Hamo Dentatus (slain at Val-es-Dunes in 1047), and who was dapifer both to the Conqueror and William Rufus and sheriff of Kent in 1086, is given, together with an account of his sons Hamo and Robert, by D. C. Douglas in "The Domesday Monachorum of Christ Church Canterbury", pp. 55-6, where the relevant authorities are cited. That Hamo dapifer and Hamo the Sheriff were undoubtedly one and the same person is proved by the Kentish returns of 1242-3 in 'The Book of Fees', pp. 654 et seq., when the lands held by the sheriff in 1086 were held by the earl of Gloucester, who was the heir of Hamo dapifer through the marriage of Robert earl of Gloucester with the daughter and heir of Robert, son of Hamo dapifer. [Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]

Hamo married Mrs. Hamo CREVECOUER. Mrs. was born about 1038; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 9122B2755B3942899A9BA95612466E3F72BD

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• _UID: 1B09BBEC42CE494F827FBE5D08A26611B0B1

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Shrewsbury, Earldom of: In early December 1074 Roger de Montgomery was created Earl of Shropshire or Shrewsbury. As with other medieval earldoms, little distinction was then made between the county town and county proper when designating a specific name for a title, chiefly because an earl, who was then more or less and official, albeit often hereditary, was inconceivable except as earl of a county.

Roger was son of another Roger de Montgomery, seigneur of the Norman places (St Germain-de-Montgomery and Ste-Foy-de-Montgomery) of that name in the Calvados region. He was a prominent member of the nobles grouped around William (later William I of England, The Conqueror) of Normandy well before the 1066 invasion of England but stayed behind in Normandy during the actual enterprise. The year after Hastings he went to England and received land grants in Sussex. He is thought to have constructed the Castle of Montgomery (now in Powys, but formerly named Mongomeryshire after his family), doing so shortly before the Domesday Survey. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2604]

Roger married Mabel De Talvas D' ALENCON before 1048 in Perche, France. Mabel (daughter of William II Talvas Count D' ALENCON, Prince De Belleme and Hildeburge De BEAUMONT) was born in 1026 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France; died on 2 Dec 1079 in Bures Castle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 76660D0271F74709BF9BAFB4B733CBF207FA
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1015, Alencon, Bell, France
• Alt. Death: 2 Dec 1079, Murdered, Chateau DE Bures-Sur-Dives, France

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Ancestral File Number: 8JF1-JL

Murdered by Hugh Bunel

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• Name: Hamo Dentatus De CREVEQUER
• _UID: D6B3566E2CD94C1ABC520BAAEE1D1161F8B0

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From: "Sinclair"
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:04:42 +0200

E.A. Freeman was definitively William's principal panegyrist. He makes no memtion of any St Clair rebels.

Hamon was killed Val-es-dunes he was Lord of Creully, Torigny, Evrecy and Thaon. He was not the Comte (Earl) of Corbeil or Mortain. The first three Counts were:

996 to 1032 Mauger de Normandie, comte de Mortain et de Corbeil
1032 to 1048 Guillaume 1er de Normandie, surnomm? Werleng ou Guerleng, comte de Mortain et de Corbeil
1049 to 1104 Robert 1er de Conteville, comte de Mortain et de Cornouailles

(The name of Thaon appears very early in archives of Normandy. Hamon of the Teeth, Lord of Creully, Torigny, Evrecy and Thaon was one of the feudal rebels at the time of the uprising that was defeated by William the Bastard at Val - es-dunes (1047). L?chaud? of Anisy in his notes on the barony and the church of Thaon it is mentioned by Wace Roman de Rou.) His father was Malger his Mother: Coeur-en-Auge

In 1035, Robert, Duke of Normandy died. Although William was illegitimate, he was Robert's only living son, and so inherited the father's title. Gilbert, Count of Brionne, became William's guardian. A number of Norman barons would not accept an illegitimate son as their leader and in 1040 an attempt was made to kill William. The plot failed by they did manage to kill Gilbert.

William was a Norman born and bred. William's cousin Guy of Burgundy, his rival was in every sense a Frenchman. His connexion with the ducal house was on distaff side, but uncontested legitimacy. This gave him an excuse for claiming the duchy in opposition to the bastard.. William after the death of Gilbert, gave the island fortress of Brionne in the Risle to Guy. The partition of the duchy was Guy's aim. William was to be dispossessed; Guy was to be duke in the lands east of Dive; the great lords of Western Normandy were to be left independent. St Clair fiefs lay to the North and East of a line from Rouen to Caen. The lords of the Bessin and the Cotentin revolted, their leader being Neal, Viscount of Saint-Sauveur in the Cotentin.

The victory at Val-es-dunes was decisive, and the French King, whose help had done so much to win it, left William to follow it up. He met with but little resistance except at the stronghold of Brionne. Guy himself vanishes from Norman history. William had now conquered his own duchy, and conquered it by French help. For once King Henry had kept his word.

The Conqueror's battle at Val-es-dunes was a tourney of horsemen on an open table-land just within the land of the rebels between Caen and Mezidon. William with the aid of Henry, King of France, William gained a great victory at Val-?s-Dunes, which led, to the capture of the two strong castles of Alen?on and Domfront.

Sinclair

Hamo married Godehilde De BELLEME. Godehilde was born about 1005 in Belleme, Sarthe, Maine/Pays DE Le Loire, France; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: E43DD7C9B346487090799CB29F25F171EF1F

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• AFN: V9XD-R1
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: F07484F9CC2049688BD7904A70088C21DF37

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Ancestral File Number: 91R2-PM

Exiled to Paris, Seine, France in 1040

Founded Troarn Abbey in 1022

Roger married Mrs. Emma (Nmn-Roger) MONTGOMERY about 1038. Emma was born about 1000 in France; died after 1067. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: E6E3D23A3637403F8ED68A7A8372F7748963

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• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: 2C1123CBF6FE4029B0CA09730C61D8C78AA0

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William married Hildeburge De BEAUMONT before 1015. Hildeburge was born about 990 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine/Pays DE La Loire, France; died about 1067. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Hildeburge De BEAUMONT-MAINE
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: BC2C4EBB699F45668A6F4AED711878B58A87

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Ancestral File Number: FLHF-JR

Cause of Death - Strangled