Robert “FitzRoy” de CaenAge: 57 years1090–1147
- Name
- Robert “FitzRoy” de Caen
- Nickname
- FitzRoy
| Birth | 1090 21 45 |
| Marriage | Mabel “FitzRobert” of Glamorgan and Gloucester — View this family between 1110 and 1112 (Age 20 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | “Matilda” FitzRobert of Gloucester between 1110 and 1130 (Age 20 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | William “FitzRobert” of Gloucester November 23, 1112 (Age 22 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | “Philip” FitzRobert de Gay about 1120 (Age 30 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Constance of England between 1090 and 1135 |
| Title | Earl, of Gloucester from 1122 (Age 32 years) |
| Death of a father | Henry “I ”Beauclerc" d'Inghilterra" of England December 1, 1135 (Age 45 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Ranulf “”de Gernon“” of Chester — “Matilda” FitzRobert of Gloucester — View this family about 1141 (Age 51 years) |
| Death of a mother | ?? di Caen between 1090 and 1170 |
| Death | October 31, 1147 (Age 57 years) |
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| Family with parents |
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Henry “I ”Beauclerc" d'Inghilterra" of England Birth: September 1068 41 36 — Selby, Yorkshire (Inghilterra) Death: December 1, 1135 — Château de Lyon-la-Forêt, presso Rouen (Francia) |
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?? di Caen Birth: between 1045 and 1075 Death: between 1090 and 1170 |
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Marriage: — unmarried |
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Robert “FitzRoy” de Caen Birth: 1090 21 45 Death: October 31, 1147 — Bristol |
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Henry “I ”Beauclerc" d'Inghilterra" of England Birth: September 1068 41 36 — Selby, Yorkshire (Inghilterra) Death: December 1, 1135 — Château de Lyon-la-Forêt, presso Rouen (Francia) |
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Marriage: — unmarried |
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Constance of England Birth: between 1090 and 1135 21 Death: between 1173 and 1230 |
| Family with Mabel “FitzRobert” of Glamorgan and Gloucester |
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Robert “FitzRoy” de Caen Birth: 1090 21 45 Death: October 31, 1147 — Bristol |
| wife |
Mabel “FitzRobert” of Glamorgan and Gloucester Birth: between 1075 and 1100 60 25 Death: September 29, 1157 |
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Marriage: between 1110 and 1112 — |
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21 years daughter |
“Matilda” FitzRobert of Gloucester Birth: between 1110 and 1130 20 35 Death: July 29, 1190 |
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3 years son |
William “FitzRobert” of Gloucester Birth: November 23, 1112 22 37 Death: November 23, 1183 |
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8 years son |
“Philip” FitzRobert de Gay Birth: about 1120 30 45 — Bristol, Gloucestershire, or Wooton Basset and Broadtown, Wiltshire (Inghilterra) Death: between 1160 and 1215 — Wootton Basset, Wiltshire |
| Note | Figlio illegittimo http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY %20MEDIEVAL.htm ROBERT de Caen, illegitimate son of HENRY I King of E ngland & his mistress --- ([1090]-Bristol 31 Oct 1147, bur Priory of S t James, Bristol). Also known as Robert FitzRoy. Orderic Vitalis recor ds him as "Robert the king's son", and specifies that he led a force f rom the Cotentin in Sep 1123 to quell the rebellion led by Amaury de M ontfort Comte d'Evreux and Waleran de Beaumont Comte de Meulan [1]. Ac cording to the ''Gwentian Chronicle'', Robert was the king´s son by " Nest, daughter of Rhys son of Tewdwr, who was afterwards the wife of G erald of Pembroke Castle" [2], but this appears unlikely from a chrono logical point of view. He was created Earl of Gloucester in [Jun/Sep ] 1122. He had the custody of his uncle Robert ex-Duke of Normandy a s a prisoner at Bristol in 1126. He did homage to King Stephen in 1136 , but quarrelled with him in 1137, and his English and Welsh estates w ere forfeited. He joined forces with his half-sister "Empress" Matilda , landing in England with her in Sep 1139. He became her commander-in- chief in the civil war. After a series of successes against King Steph en’s forces, including the capture of the King at Lincoln in Feb 114 1, he himself was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sep 1141 and imprisoned a t Rochester. He was freed shortly after in exchange for the king [3] . The ''Gesta Stephani Regis'' records the death of "comes… Glaorni |