Concubine Edith Fitzforne SIGULFSON

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• FamilySearch ID: GJ7R-QSH
• _UID: DB0275B3A1DA4150AB4AE612C9EDF747F2CB

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Sources:

1. Abbrev: Royalty for Commoners, by Stuart
Title: Royalty for Commoners, by Stuart
Date: 2000
2. Abbrev: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition , by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists
Date: 2000
Page: 138-24
Quality: 3

Edith married King Henry I Beauclerc Of Angevin ENGLAND, Of England in Associated With Concubine. Henry (son of William II "The Conqueror" Of Normandy ANGEVIN, King Of England and Countess Matilda LE CHAUVRE, Queen Of England) was born in 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England; was christened on 5 Aug 1100 in When Crowned, Selby, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Dec 1135 in Saint-Denis-en-Lyons, Normandy, France; was buried on 3 Jan 1136 in Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9V7-BV
• FamilySearch ID: 9CS2-22H
• TitleOfNobility: ; 1st Earl Of Gloucester
• TitleOfNobility: ; Baron of Okehampton
• TitleOfNobility: ; Lord of Okehampton
• Name: Robert (Earl Of Gloucester) DE CAEN
• Name: Robert FITZROY
• Name: Robert FITZROY
• Name: Robert Rufus
• Name: The King's Son
• Occupation: ; Consul
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• MilitaryService: 1119; and fought in the Battle of Bremule where his father defeated Louis VI of France
• MilitaryService: 1122; and led a force to capture Brionne Castle held by rebels in Normandy

Notes:

Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090 ? 31 October 1147) (alias Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen, Robert Consul) was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England. He was the half-brother of the Empress Matilda, and her chief military supporter during the civil war known as The Anarchy, in which she vied with Stephen of Blois for the throne of England.
Robert was probably the eldest of Henry's many illegitimate children. He was born before his father's accession to the English throne, either during the reign of his grandfather William the Conqueror or his uncle William Rufus. He is sometimes and erroneously designated as a son of Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, last king of Deheubarth, although his mother has been identified as a member of "the Gay or Gayt family of north Oxfordshire", possibly a daughter of Rainald Gay (fl. 1086) of Hampton Gay and Northbrook Gay in Oxfordshire. Rainald had known issue Robert Gay of Hampton (died c. 1138) and Stephen Gay of Northbrook (died after 1154). A number of Oxfordshire women feature as the mothers of Robert's siblings.

Robert may have been a native of Caen or he may have been only Constable and Governor of that city, jure uxoris.

Robert's father had contracted him in marriage to Mabel FitzHamon, daughter and heir of Robert Fitzhamon, but the marriage was not solemnized until June 1119 at Lisieux. His wife brought him the substantial honours of Gloucester in England and Glamorgan in Wales, and the honours of Sainte-Scholasse-sur-Sarthe and ?vrecy in Normandy, as well as Creully. After the White Ship disaster late in 1120, and probably because of this marriage, in 1121 or 1122 his father created him Earl of Gloucester.

Family
Robert and his wife Mabel FitzHamon married in 1119, and they had seven children:
1. William FitzRobert (c.1121 ? 1183): succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Gloucester
2. Roger FitzRobert (c. 1123 ? 1179): Bishop of Worcester
3. Hamon FitzRobert, knight (c. 1124 ? 1159): killed at the siege of Toulouse.
4. Richard FitzRobert, Lord of Creully (c. 1125 ? 1175): succeeded his mother as Sire de Creully.
5. Matilda FitzRobert (c. 1126 ? 1189): married in 1143 Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester.
6. Mabel FitzRobert: married Aubrey de Vere
7. Philip FitzRobert, Lord of Cricklade (c. 1130 ? 1148)

He also had four illegitimate children:
1. Richard FitzRobert (died 1142): Bishop of Bayeux [mother: Isabel de Douvres, sister of Richard de Douvres, bishop of Bayeux (1107? 1133)]
2. Robert FitzRobert (died 1170): Castellan of Gloucester, married in 1147 Hawise de Reviers (daughter of Baldwin de Reviers, 1st Earl of Devon and his first wife Adelisa), had daughter Mabel FitzRobert (married firstly Jordan de Chambernon and secondly William de Soliers)
3. Mabel FitzRobert: married Gruffud, Lord of Senghenydd, son of Ifor Bach.
4. Thomas FitzRobert

Relationship with King Stephen
There is evidence in the contemporary source, the Gesta Stephani, that Robert was proposed by some as a candidate for the throne, but his illegitimacy ruled him out:
"Among others came Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of King Henry, but a bastard, a man of proved talent and admirable wisdom. When he was advised, as the story went, to claim the throne on his father's death, deterred by sounder advice he by no means assented, saying it was fairer to yield it to his sister's son (the future Henry II of England), than presumptuously to arrogate it to himself."
This suggestion cannot have led to any idea that he and Stephen were rivals for the Crown, as Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1136 referred to Robert as one of the 'pillars' of the new King's rule.
The capture of King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 gave the Empress Matilda the upper hand in her battle for the throne, but by alienating the citizens of London she failed to be crowned Queen. Her forces were defeated at the Rout of Winchester on 14 September 1141, and Robert of Gloucester was captured nearby at Stockbridge.
The two prisoners, King Stephen and Robert of Gloucester, were then exchanged, but by freeing Stephen, the Empress Matilda had given up her best chance of becoming queen. She later returned to France, where she died in 1167, though her son succeeded Stephen as King Henry II in 1154.

Robert of Gloucester died in 1147 at Bristol Castle, where he had previously imprisoned King Stephen, and was buried at St James' Priory, Bristol, which he had founded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert,_1st_Earl_of_Gloucester

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"Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families," Douglas Richardson (2013):
"ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Br?mul? in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-For?t in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.

Robert married Maud (Mabel) FITZHAMON, Countess Of Glo in Jun 1119 in Lisieux, Calvados, Duchy of Normandy, France. Maud (daughter of Lord Robert FITZHAMON, of Gloucester and Glamorgan and Sybil DE MONTGOMERY) was born in 1090 in Of, Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Sep 1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; was buried after 29 Sep 1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Matilda AVRANCHES, Heiress Of Okehampton about 1162 in England. Matilda (daughter of Robert D'AVRANCHES and Baroness Hawise DE DOL) was born about 1115 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England; died on 21 Sep 1173 in Okehampton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 99MZ-TDT
• Occupation: ; Castellan of Gloucester

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"Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families," Douglas Richardson (2013):
"ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton (in Gwithian), Cornwell, Castellan of Gloucester, younger son. He married HAWISE DE REDVERS, daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon. They had one daughter, Mabel. Sometime in the period, 1141-61, he and his wife, Hawise, made a gift to Quarr Abbey. Sometime in the period, 1147-71, he witnessed a charter of his brother, Earl William, at Bristol to Gilbert Fitz John. Sometime in the period, 1147-50, probably before March 1148/9, he witnessed a treaty between his brother, Earl William, and Roger, Earl of Hereford. Sometime in the period, c. 1147-8, he witnessed a charter of his mother, Countess Mabel, and his brother, Earl William, announcing restorations made to Jocelin, Bishop of Salisbury. In 1154, as Robert son of the Earl of Gloucester, he conveyed to Richard the butler the manor of Conarton (in Gwithian), Cornwall for a payment 400 marks of silver and a silk cloth, and to his wife, "Harvisa" a palfrey. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT (or FITZ COUNT) died in 1170. In the period, c.1193-1211, his widow, Hawise de Redvers, gave the manors of Fleet and Ibberton, Dorset to her grandson, Jordan de Champernoun.
Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 3-4 (charter of Hawise de Rivers daughter of Earl Baldwin). Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 422-423. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1097-1098. Pertz Chronica et Annales avi Salici (Monumenta Germani? Historica, Scriptores 6) (1844): 519 (Roberti de Monte Cronica [Robert de Torigni]) sub 1170 - "Mortuo Roberto filio Roberti comitis Gloecestrie"). C.P. 5 (1926): 686, footnote b (sub Gloucester). Collectanea Archaeologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 63, 97-98, 155-156 (Robert and his brother, William styled "my sons" [filii mei] by their mother, Countess Mabel). Bearman Charters of the Redvers family and the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 93n. (Hawise de Redvers was "benefactor of Quarr, Christchurch, Hartland Abbey in Devon, and the Knights Hospitallers."). Cornwall Rec. Office: Messrs Harvey and Co, Hay, H/236 (available at available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp)."

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Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Vol. 2 pg 124; Vol. 3 pg 85/87
... of Conarton (in Gwithian), Cornwell, Castellan of Gloucester, younger son {most sources list him as an illegitimate son of Isabel de Douvres}

Sometime in the period, 1141-61, he and his wife, Hawise, made a gift to Quarr Abbey. Sometime in the period, 1147-71, he witnessed a charter of his brother, Earl William, at Bristol to Gilbert Fitz John. Sometime in the period, 1147-50, probably before March 1148/9, he witnessed a treaty between his brother, Earl William, and Roger, Earl of Hereford. Sometime in the period, c. 1147-8, he witnessed a charter of his mother, Countess Mabel, had his brother, Earl William, announcing restorations made to Jocelin, Bishop of Salisbury. In 1154, as Robert son of the Earl of Gloucester, he conveyed to Richard the butler of the manor of Conarton (in Gwithian), Cornwall for a payment of 400 marks of silever and a silk cloth, and to his wife, "Harvisa" a palfrey.

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Foundation of Medieval Genealogy:
ROBERT FitzRobert (-1170). The 1155 Pipe Roll records "Rob. fil. Com. Gloecestr." in Somerset. Named in charters in [1160], and addressed as Castellan of Gloucester. Robert of Torigny records the death in 1170 of "Roberto filio Roberti comitis Gloecestri?".

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Wiki (March 2015):
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.

Robert married Hawise DE REDVERS before Jun 1141 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Hawise was born about 1126 in Isle Of Wight, Hampshire, England; died about 1215 in Isle of Wight, England; was buried in Quarr Old Abbey, Isle of Wight, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9FTJ-VG
• FamilySearch ID: GHKG-YBJ

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Name Suffix: [BISHOP OF WORCE
Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-VG

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• FamilySearch ID: L8BS-VB3

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• AFN: V9V7-D7
• FamilySearch ID: K2H7-B9K
• Name: Mafonache
• Name: William Fitzrobert MEULLENT
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• He served as Governor of Wareham and looked after the baronial estates when his father: Oct 1141; fell into the hands of partisans at Winchester and was exchanged for King Stephen.
• He overthrew Henry de Tracy at Castle Cary.: 1147
• TitleOfNobility: Between 31 Oct 1147 and 23 Nov 1183; 2nd Earl of Gloucester (Predecessor: Sir Robert de Caen; Successor: John de Mortain)
• He made an alliance with Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, by which they agreed: 1154; to aid each other against all men except Henry II of England.
• He and his wife and son were captured by the Welsh Lord of Senghenydd, Ifor Bach: 1158; ("Ivor the Little") and carried away into the woods, where they were held as prisoners until he redressed Ivor's grievances.

Notes:

Seal to Parents: 23 OCT 1936
Name Suffix: [Earl of Glouces
Ancestral File Number: V9V7-D7

[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.

William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (23 November 1116 ? 23 November 1183) was the son and heir of Sir Robert de Caen, 1st Earl of Gloucester, and Mabel FitzRobert of Gloucester, daughter of Robert Fitzhamon and nephew of Empress Matilda.
William FitzRobert was the son of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, during whose reign William was born. Thus William was a nephew of the Empress Maud and a cousin of King Stephen, the principal combatants of the English Anarchy period. It also meant that William is the great-grandson of the famed William the Conqueror.

Early career
In October 1141, William looked after the Baronial estates, when his father fell into the hands of partisans at Winchester. His father was exchanged for King Stephen, and during his father's absence in Normandy in 1144 he served as Governor of Wareham. In 1147, he overthrew Henry de Tracy at Castle Cary.

In 1154 he made an alliance with Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, by which they agreed to aid each other against all men except Henry II of England.

FitzRobert granted Neath, a town in Glamorgan, a charter. He was Lord of the manor of Glamorgan, as well as Caerleon, residing chiefly at Cardiff Castle. It was there that in 1158 he and his wife and son were captured by the Welsh Lord of Senghenydd, Ifor Bach ("Ivor the Little") and carried away into the woods, where they were held as prisoners until the Earl redressed Ivor's grievances.

Relationship with King Henry II
In 1173 the earl took the King's part against his sons, but thereafter he appears to have fallen under suspicion, for the following year he submitted to the King, and in 1175 surrendered to him Bristol Castle. Because his only son and heir Robert died in 1166, Earl William made John, the younger son of King Henry II, heir to his earldom, in conformity with the King's promise that John should marry one of the Earl's daughters, if the Church would allow it, they being related in the third degree.

Earl William was present in March 1177 when the King arbitrated between the Kings of Castile and Navarre, and in 1178, he witnessed Henry's charter to Waltham Abbey. But during the King's struggles with his sons, when he imprisoned a number of magnates of whose loyalty he was doubtful, Earl William was among them.

Family and children
He was married to Hawise de Beaumont of Leicester, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Amica de Gael and had children:
1. Robert fitz William (1151, Cardiff, Glamorganshire ? 1166, Cardiff, Glamorganshire).
2. Mabel fitz William, married Amaury V de Montfort, her son Amaury briefly being Earl of Gloucester
3. Amice fitz William, d. 1220. Married Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, their descendants eventually inherited the Earldom of Gloucester.
4. Isabel, Countess of Gloucester. She was married three times:
- John of England
- Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex, Earl of Gloucester
- Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent

The earl died in 1183; his wife Hawise survived him. Since their only son, Robert, predeceased his father, their daughters became co-heirs to the feudal barony of Gloucester.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fitz_Robert,_2nd_Earl_of_Gloucester

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Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Vol. 1 pg 43, 247, Vol. 2 pg 180, 514; Vol. 3 pg 88/558; Vol. 4 pg 559
2nd Earl of Gloucester, lord of Glamorgan and Caerleon, seigneur of Torigny in Manche, Normandy, etc., Governor of Wareham Castle, 1144, son and heir. They had one son, Robert (living c.1170), and three daughters, Mabel, Amice, and Isabel.

In 1128 he witnessed an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fecamp. In 1141 he served as surety for his father, then a prisoner at Rochester. In 1147 he overthrew Henry de Tracy at Castle Cary. Sometime in the period, 1147-50, probably before March 1148/9, he signed a treaty with Roger, Earl of Hereford, by which William agreed t hold faith and give aid to Roger as his man, against all men except their lord, Henry; William promised aid especially for the purpose of disinherity Gilbert de Lacy. Sometime in the period, 1147-83, he granted Margam Abbey land in Margam, in echange for the land of Baldwin the Harper of Newborough. Sometime in the period, 1147-83, he gave to the church and monks of St. Giles, Little Malvern, Worcestershire ten acres in the forest of Malvern with appurtenances in the said forest for inclosure and cultivation. In 1148 he gave a confirmation to Gloucester jointly with his mother. In 1153 he was one of the witnesses to the agreement between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II]; he also witnessed a charter of Duke Henry dated at Bristol.

In 1158 he and his wife and son Robert were captured at Cardiff Castle by Ivor the Little and carried into the woods, where they were held as prisoners until the earl redressed Ivor's grievances.

He witnessed a charter of his father-in-law, Robert, Earl of Leicester, dated c.1150-60. He founded Keynsham Priory in Somerset in 1169, and was a benefactor to many other religious foundations. About 1170 he granted his son, Robert, land in Margam, which Robert thereupon gave to Abbot Conan and the convent. In 1173 he took the king's part against his sons, and later that year went to the help of the king's forces at the Battle of Fornham. In 1174 he submitted to the king, and in 1175 he surrendered Bristol Castle to him. In 1178 he witnessed King Henry's charter to Waltham Abbey. In 1183 the king imprisoned a number of magnates of whose loyalty he was doubtful, including Earl William, About 1183 Earl William granted Walter Lageles land which his father held, for an annual rent of eight shillings. About 1183 he granted Kenaithur son of Herbert son of Godwinet and his brothers the lands of Keleculam and Treikik.

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Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
WILLIAM FitzRobert, son of ROBERT Fitzroy Earl of Gloucester & his wife Mabel [Matilda or Sibylle] FitzRobert (23 Nov [1112]-23 Nov 1183, bur Keynsham Abbey, Somerset). His birth date is confirmed by the Annals of Waverley which record the death "in nocte Sancti Clementis" in 1183 of "Willelmus comes Glocestri?", specifying that it was the same day he was born. The Chronica de Fundatoribus et Fundatione of Tewkesbury Abbey records that "comes Willielmus filius et h?res eiusdem" succeeded on the death of Robert Earl of Gloucester. He witnessed an agreement in 1128. He was imprisoned with his father at Rochester in Oct 1141 by the forces of King Stephen. Governor of Wareham 1144, during his father's absence in Normandy. He succeeded his father in 1147 as Earl of Gloucester. The Gesta Stephani Regis records that "Willelmus filius suus?senior??tate" succeeded as Earl of Gloucester on the death of his father, dated from the context to [1147]. The Annals of Margan record that "comes Gloucestri? Willelmus?et comitissa Hawysia" were captured "in castello Cardivi?" by the Welsh in 1158. "Willielmus comes Glouc." donated "ecclesia de Eltham" to Rochester, for the souls of "Roberti filii mei...Hawyse comitisse uxoris mee et liberorum...meorum", by undated charter, confirmed by charter dated 8 Dec 1314. On his death, King Henry II took the honour of Gloucester and the Earldom into his own hands. Robert of Torigny records the death in 1183 of "Guillermus comes Gloecestri?" leaving three daughters as his heirs. The Annals of Margan record the death "IX Kal Dec" in 1183 of "Willelmus comes Gloucestri?". The Obituary of Lyre records the death 23 Nov of "Willelmus comes Glocestri?". The Annals of Waverley record the death "in nocte Sancti Clementis" in 1183 of "Willelmus comes Glocestri?", specifying that it was the same day he was born. The Chronica de Fundatoribus et Fundatione of Tewkesbury Abbey records the death in 1183 of "comes Willielmus Gloucestri?" and his burial "apud Kenisham". The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "23 Nov" of "Willelmus comes Glocestri?".
m ([1150]) HAVISE de Beaumont, daughter of ROBERT de Beaumont[-le-Roger] Earl of Leicester & his wife Amice de Ga?l et de Montfort ([after 1120]-24 Apr or 25 May 1197). The Chronica de Fundatoribus et Fundatione of Tewkesbury Abbey records that "comes Willielmus" married "Hawisia filia comitis Leicestri?"[1741]. The Annals of Margan record that "comes Gloucestri? Willelmus?et comitissa Hawysia" were captured "in castello Cardivi?" by the Welsh in 1158[1742]. "Willielmus comes Glouc." donated "ecclesia de Eltham" to Rochester, for the souls of "Roberti filii mei...Hawyse comitisse uxoris mee et liberorum...meorum", by undated charter, confirmed by charter dated 8 Dec 1314[1743]. The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "25 May" of "Hawis comitissa Gloecestr?"[1744]. The Annals of Tewkesbury record the death "VIII Kal Mai" in 1197 of "Hawisa comitissa Glocestri?"[1745].

Earl William & his wife had four children:
1. ROBERT (Cardiff [1150]-Cardiff 1166, bur Keynsham Abbey, Somerset). ...
2. MABEL (-1198). ...
3. AMICE (-1 Jan 1225). ...
4. ISABEL [Avise] ([before 1176]-14 Oct or [18 Nov] 1217, bur Canterbury Cathedral Church). ...

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#WilliamFitzRobertdied1183

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William married Hawise Mabel Avis BEAUMONT, [Countess] about 1150 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. Hawise (daughter of Robert DE BEAUMONT, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Amice GAEL DE MONTFORT) was born about 1129 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died on 24 Apr 1197 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom; was buried in 1197 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9V7-JW
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: 49D5237F50394AC3AB9EC7D9D888BC288383
• Alt. Birth: Bef 1134, Little Dunmow, Essex, England

Notes:

Name Suffix: [Countess of Che
Ancestral File Number: V9V7-JW

Maud married William "Le Breton" De ALBINI, Lord Of Belvoir about 1140 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. William was born in 1113 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England; died in 1168 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Ranulph "De Gernon" MESCHINES, 4th Earl Of Chester about 1141 in Gloucestershire, England. Ranulph was born in 1099 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France; died on 16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: 7FF1F33A8F7F4EB5B2F59468C6A9B71C933D

Christian married Sir William II Eaton FITZALAN, Baron Of Oswestry about 1135 in 1st Wife. William (son of Alain (Alan) Fitzflaald Baron Of Salop Of DOL and Adeliza De HESDIN) was born about 1105 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England; was christened in in Also Of, Dol, Normandy France; died in 1160 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England; was buried in Sheriff Of Shropshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9V7-L8
• _UID: 4965FF497FEC4F3393E0BAF18BFABCABED21

Notes:

That Robert, a little known son of the Earl of Gloucester was even married, is revealed in a charter dated between June 1141 and 1161, probably before Oct 1147, in which Hawise, daughter of Earl Baldwin de Redvers, made a gift to Quarr Abbey jointly with her husband, Robert, son of the Earl of Gloucester. CP, 5: 686 states Robert was a natural son of Earl Robert and that he was named c1160 in a charter and is addressed in a writ from King Henry II as Castellan of Gloucester. [Ronny Bodine, SGM, 18 Feb 1999]

Note: The marriage took place before the charter, which was June 1141 - Oct 1147 (probably).

Robert married Hawise De REVIERS before Jun 1141. Hawise was born about 1126 in Isle Of Wight, Hampshire, England; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9FTJ-Z0
• FamilySearch ID: KLXB-K8F

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Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-Z0

Mabel married Aubrey De VERE in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Aubrey died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mabel married in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9V7-HQ
• FamilySearch ID: GXJZ-L48
• Name: Philip De GAI

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Ancestral File Number: V9V7-HQ

Phillip married Sedzilia De BERKELEY about 1155 in England. Sedzilia was born about 1135 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1192 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9V7-K3
• FamilySearch ID: GZP3-C4T

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Name Suffix: [Lord of Cruelly
Ancestral File Number: V9V7-K3

Family/Spouse: Mathilde De ST. CLAIR. Mathilde was born about 1135; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9FTJ-XS
• FamilySearch ID: GFXL-1RG

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Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-XS

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• AFN: FQW5-TQ
• _UID: 3EB4F50339164F988B6488A6878A768448B1

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Ancestral File Number: FQW5-TQ

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• Name: Maud FITZROY
• _UID: 056FBF22A4034F41BA4D5B8FFBECAE8D9F9E

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Maud married Renaud Seigneur DE COURTENAY, Of Sutton after 1172 in 2ND Wife, No Issue. Renaud (son of Renaud (Reginald) Seigneur De COURTENAY, Sire and Hawise (Or Hedwig) De DU DON JON) was born in 1125 in Courtenay, Montargis, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France; died on 27 Sep 1194 in Okehampton, Devon, England; was buried in 1194 in Forde Abbey, Thorncombe, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZXL-8D8
• Name: Mabel Of GLOUCESTER

Mabel married Jordan Campo Arnulfi DE CHAMPERNOUN about 1118 in Umberley, , Devonshire, England. Jordan was born in 1095 in Manche, France; died in 1172 in Umberleigh, Devonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9FFM-3N
• FamilySearch ID: GJJS-DF8
• Reference Number: 9FFM-3N
• _UID: ED66AABEE86040E1A2FEABE3B017B3CB97CE

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Ancestral File Number: 9FFM-3N

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• AFN: V9S3-7L
• FamilySearch ID: GJZQ-BK1
• Reference Number: V9S3-7L
• _UID: A107F20067AC4DBB90E489B5A4E2438DBD46

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Ancestral File Number: V9S3-7L

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9FFR-WC
• FamilySearch ID: GJJS-QT5
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: 7D00F1F232EB4DA6BEC3E9870BAE9055FF9A

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Ancestral File Number: 9FFR-WC

John (King of England) prevented her (Isabel, youngest daughter of William FitzRobert) taking a second husband at all for the time being, however, and exchanged the Earldom of Gloucester with Aumarie de Montfort, son of William FitzRobert's eldest daughter Mabel, for the Comte of Evereux, which he then used as a dowry to secure the marriage of his niece Blanche with the King of France's son. Aumarie died childless. [Burke's Peerage]

Note: Although Mabel may not have been

Mabel married about 1170 in Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mabel married about 1175 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LCZC-B2Y
• _UID: BD6C77A1820F473BA964342C6A8D33D8C30E

Matilda married about 1175 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9G8Z-NJ
• FamilySearch ID: KH8X-ZDW
• Name: Amice Fitzrobert MEULLENT
• Reference Number: 9G8Z-NJ
• _UID: 2CB5587C95134401AD86F6637AE17009022E

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Name Suffix: [COUNTESS OF GLO
Ancestral File Number: 9G8Z-NJ

Amice married about 1175 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 8XJ5-5D
• FamilySearch ID: LHGN-2GP
• Reference Number: 8XJ5-5D
• _UID: CBEB8D30843F47A89DB5F2327963BE7FB4B7

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3rd daughter of William FitzRobert.

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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.

Isabel's situation now became that of a great heiress, for whoever she married next would gain the Earldom. John prevented her taking a second husband at all for the time being, however, and exchanged the Earldom of Gloucester with Aumarie de Montfort, son of William FitzRobert's eldest daughter Mabel, for the Comte of Evereux, which he then used as a dowry to secure the marriage of his niece Blanche with the King of France's son. Aumarie died childless and Isabel, who towards the end of John's reign married as her second husband Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex and in right of his new wife now Earl of Gloucester too, died childless after marrying in the autumn of 1217 yet a third husband, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.

The latter seems not to have been recognised as Earl of Gloucester as well as of Kent, despite his wife's undoubted possession of the former Earldom by the time of their marriage. But then she died only a few days later and her sister Amice, by now the only one of William FitzRobert's daughters still living, seems to have been recognised as Countess of Gloucester till her own death some seven and a half years later. On the other hand Amice's son Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford or of Clare (usually called the latter), was apparently acknowledged as Earl of Gloucester in addition to his other dignity from as soon as the month after his aunt Isabel's death back in 1217. [Burke's Peerage]

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He [Hubert de Burgh] married, 2ndly, probably a few days before her death, Isabel, COUNTESS OF GLOUCESTER, widow of Geoffrey (DE MANDEVILLE), Earl of Essex, and previously the divorced wife of KING JOHN. She died 14 October 1217. [Complete Peerage VII:133-42, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Avisa married John "Lackland" King Of England PLANTAGENET on 29 Aug 1189 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. John (son of King Henry II PLANTAGENET and Queen Eleanor De AQUITAINE) was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Avisa married on 29 Aug 1189 in 1st Husband 1St Wife - Divorced 1199. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Avisa married on 20 Jan 1213-1214 in 2ND Husband, 2ND Wife. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Avisa married about 1217 in Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: LCJG-29
• Reference Number: LCJG-29
• _UID: 5D2B7517EE2F4B8091E24445E47008E337FB
• Bullet: 1215, Magna Charta Surety

Notes:

William de Albini, feudal Lord of Belvoir, in the 6th of Richard I [1195], was with that monarch in the army in Normandy, and the next year was sheriff of the counties of Warwick and Leicester, as he was subsequently of Rutlandshire. In the 2nd of King John [1201], he had special license to make a park at Stoke, in Northampton, and liberty to hunt the fox and hare (it lying within the royal forest of Rockingham). Afterwards, however, he took up arms with the other barons and, leaving Belvoir well fortified, he assumed the governorship of Rochester Castle, which he held out for three months against the Royalists, and ultimately only surrendered when reduced to the last state of famine. Upon the surrender of Rochester, William Albini was sent prisoner to Corfe Castle, and there detained until his freedom became one of the conditions upon which Belvoir capitulated, and until he paid a ransom of 6,000 marks. In the reign of Henry III, we find him upon the other side and a principal commander at the battle of Lincoln, anno 1217, where his former associates sustained so signal a defeat. This stout baron, who had been one of the celebrated twenty-five appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta, m. 1st, Margery, dau. of Odonel de Umfraville, by whom he had had issue, William, Sir Odinel, Robert, and Nicholas, rector of Bottesford. He m. 2ndly, Agatha, dau. and co-heir of William Trusbut, and dying in 1236, was s. by his eldest son, William de Albini. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 160, Daubeney, Barons Daubeney, Earl of Bridgewater]

William married about 1191 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 7650FB263EFB47DBB0F21A252021AE2E40C2

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• _UID: CB0BBAC2EEB94EF59576EE553F6DF14D74B0

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• AFN: 9HQN-J4
• _UID: 314ABDB03AFE414FAF711385855DEDB9F0F7

Notes:

Ancestral File Number: 9HQN-J4

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• AFN: 9HQN-K9
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: 6C6372A36F40405698BEE3482F2115BCCB3B

Notes:

Ancestral File Number: 9HQN-K9

Johanna married in Of Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 9FTM-X7
• _UID: F7488BB106B54A129704576F5BAC5069B356

Notes:

Ancestral File Number: 9FTM-X7

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• AFN: V9TW-RR
• Name: Hugh De Meschines Earl Of CHESTER
• Name: Of Kevelioc
• _UID: 6E210B9DDB7E48E09DF487428619B4FF6492

Notes:

Name Suffix: [VISCOUNT D'AVRAAncestral File Number: V9TW-RRThis nobleman, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester, joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Lancaster and the King of Scots against King Henry II, and in support of that monarch's son, Prince Henry's pretensions to the crown. In which proceeding he was taken prisoner with the Earl of Leicester at Alnwick, but obtained his freedom soon afterwards upon the king's reconciliation with the young prince. Again, however, hoisting the standard of revolt both in England and Normandy, with as little success, he was again seized and then detained a prisoner for some years. He eventually, however, obtained his liberty and restoration of his lands when public tranquility became completely reestablished some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign. His lordship m. Bertred, dau. of Simon, Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and had issue, I. Ranulph, his successor; I. Maud, m. to David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of William, King of Scotland, and had one son and four daus., viz., 1. John, surnamed le Scot, who s. to the Earldom of Chester, d. s. p. 7 June, 1237; 1. Margaret, m. to Alan de Galloway, and had a dau., Devorguilla, m. to John de Baliol, and was mother of John de Baliol, declared King of Scotland in the reign of Edward I; 2. Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus, and was mother of Robert de Brus, who contended for the crown of Scotland, temp. Edward I; 3. Maud, d. unm.; Ada, m. to Henry de Hastings, one of the competitors for the Scottish crown, temp. Edward I; II. Mabill, m. to William de Albini, Earl of Arundel; III. Agnes, m. to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; IV. Hawise, m. to Robert, son of Sayer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester.The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia,* m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must he be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom."The earl d. at Leeke, in Staffordshire, in 1181, and was s. by his only son, Ranulph, surnamed Blundevil (or rather Blandevil) from the place of his birth, the town of Album Monasterium, modern Oswestry, in Powys), as 4th Earl of Chester.* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "at an assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls of Chester]
This nobleman, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester, joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Lancaster and the King of Scots against King Henry II, and in support of that monarch's son, Prince Henry's pretensions to the crown. In which proceeding he was taken prisoner with the Earl of Leicester at Alnwick, but obtained his freedom soon afterwards upon the king's reconciliation with the young prince. Again, however, hoisting the standard of revolt both in England and Normandy, with as little success, he was again seized and then detained a prisoner for some years. He eventually, however, obtained his liberty and restoration of his lands when public tranquility became completely reestablished some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign. His lordship m. Bertred, dau. of Simon, Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and had issue, I. Ranulph, his successor; I. Maud, m. to David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of William, King of Scotland, and had one son and four daus., viz., 1. John, surnamed le Scot, who s. to the Earldom of Chester, d. s. p. 7 June, 1237; 1. Margaret, m. to Alan de Galloway, and had a dau., Devorguilla, m. to John de Baliol, and was mother of John de Baliol, declared King of Scotland in the reign of Edward I; 2. Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus, and was mother of Robert de Brus, who contended for the crown of Scotland, temp. Edward I; 3. Maud, d. unm.; Ada, m. to Henry de Hastings, one of the competitors for the Scottish crown, temp. Edward I; II. Mabill, m. to William de Albini, Earl of Arundel; III. Agnes, m. to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; IV. Hawise, m. to Robert, son of Sayer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester.

The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia,* m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must he be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom."

The earl d. at Leeke, in Staffordshire, in 1181, and was s. by his only son, Ranulph, surnamed Blundevil (or rather Blandevil) from the place of his birth, the town of Album Monasterium, modern Oswestry, in Powys), as 4th Earl of Chester.

* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "at an assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls of Chester]

Hugh married in 1169 in Montfort, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: 64FC30C11EC341D3BAA4AA7AE9C10A8A065E

Christian married about 1161 in Wemme, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mabira De CAEN
• _UID: 1324AD8D18D94FB9931E3F1CA7320E0C69BF
• Alt. Death: Aft 1190; Alt. Death

Notes:

Ancestral Roots has Mabira as daughter of Robert de Caen, Earl of Gloucester, but Ronny Bodine has found that she is daughter of Robert's illegitimate son Robert. See notes under husband Jordan.

Mabel married in 1st Husband. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mabel married after 1166 in 2ND Husband. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Aline De GAI
• Reference Number: ems-jw
• _UID: DDA9858E46354C53B276F008288FFD4ED5CC

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Aline, daughter and coheir of Philip de Gai. [Burke's Peerage]

Aline married about 1195 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: E5EF6511958F481491DF30AC1EA875EE3FBE