Robert "the Consul" DE CAEN

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• Also Known As: "The King's Son", the Consul, Earl of Gloucester
• Fact: 1122-1147, Earl of Gloucester

Notes:

Robert died of fever. Robert married Maud, eldest daughter of Robert FitzHamon, in whose right he had the whole honor of Gloucester as also a great inheritance in Normandy and all the lands of Hamo Dapifer, his wife's uncle.

Family/Spouse: Maud FITZ HAMMON. Maud (daughter of Robert FITZ HAMON and Sibyl DE MONTGOMERY) was born about 1094 in Gloucestershire, England; died in 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Roger FITZ ROBERT
2. Robert FITZ ROBERT was born about 1112 in Bristol, Glouchstershire, England; died on 09 Aug 1179.
3. Richard FITZ ROBERT died in 1175.
4. Hamon FITZ ROBERT was born about 1116 in Bristol, Glouchstershire, England; died in 1159 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France.
5. William FITZ ROBERT was born about 23 Nov 1116; died on 23 Nov 1183.
6. Mabel FITZ ROBERT
7. Maud DE CAEN was born in Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Jul 1189 in Chestershire, England.
8. Philip FITZ ROBERT
9. Mabira DE CAEN died after 1190.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 25 Dec 1066, Acceded - Westminster Abbey, London, England
• Birth: 1070, Selby, Yorkshire, England
• Fact: Between 1100 and 1135, Reigned as King of England
• Crowned: 06 Aug 1100, Westminster Abbey
• Fact: Between 1106 and 1135, Duke of Normandy

Notes:

Henry was the only one of his father's children to be born in England. Henry I was called Beauclerc because of his love of learning and knowledge. Concerning the name, Henry; according to "Complete Peerage" by Cokayne, Vol. 3, Appendix C, "Before Henry VII the name Henry appeared almost invariably in the forms 'Harry' or Herry' in English Privy Seals." Henry and Adela had no children. Again according the "Complete Peerage", Vol 11, Appendix D, "it seems fairly certain that Henry was the father of at least 9 sons and 11 daughters." It adds, however, "there is no satisfactory modern list of Henry's bastards." Given-Wilson and Curteis (pg 60) state that Henry was father of "at least twenty royal bastards, more than any other king in English history.". There were advantages to a king's having bastards. The marriages of bastards could be used to cement alliances, and, most importantly, bastards were greatly loyal: "being illegitimate, they were almost entirely dependent on the king for advancement.

Henry married Sibyl CORBET. Sibyl died after 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Mistress to Henry I