Robert "the King's Son" CAEN, 1ST EARL OF GLOUCESTER

                   Name Suffix: [Bishop Of Worchester]
Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-VG
Name Suffix: [BISHOP OF WORCE
Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-VG
                  

                   Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-XS
Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-XS
                  

                   Name Suffix: 2nd Earl Of Gloucester
Ancestral File Number: V9V7-D7
1  NAME William Fitzrobert /Meullent/
2  GIVN William Fitzrobert
2  SURN Meullent


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 andhusband 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.
                  

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

                   Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-Z0
Ancestral File Number: 9FTJ-Z0
                  

                   Ancestral File Number: V9V7-L8
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, sonof the Earl of Gloucester.  CP, 5: 686 states Robert was a natural son of EarlRobert 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).
                  

                   Ancestral File Number: V9V7-HQ
1  NAME Philip De /Gai/
2  GIVN Philip De
2  SURN Gai


Ancestral File Number: V9V7-HQ
                  

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

                   Ancestral File Number: FQW5-TQ
Ancestral File Number: FQW5-TQ