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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, lord of Glamorgan and Caerleon, seigneur of Torigny in Manche, Normandy, etc., Governor of Wareham Castle, 1144, son and heir. In 1128 he witnessed an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fecamp. He married about 1150 HAWISE OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Amice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Robert (living c.1170), and three daughters, Mabel, Amice, and Isabel. In 1128 he was a witness to an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fécamp. 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 to 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 disinheriting Gilbert de Lacy. Sometime in the period, 1147-83, he granted Margam Abbey land in Margam, in exchange 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 Keleculum and Treikik WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester, died 23 Nov. 1183, and was buried at Keynsham Abbey, Somerset. In the period, 1183-97, his widow, Hawise, granted W. de Arundel her servant a burgage situated beside the bridge of her borough of Fairford. In the same period, she granted to the burgesses of Peters field all the liberties and free customs which William her husband formerly granted to them by his charter. In 1189-90 she witnessed a charter of his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester. Hawise, Countess of Gloucester, died 24 April 1197.
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1095 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester). Arch. Cambrensis 3,th Ser. 8 (1862): 276 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub 1183: "Obiit Willielmus Comes Gloucestri."), 276 (sub 1197: "Obiit Hawysia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 53 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1183: "Nicholaus episcopus Landavensis et Willelmus comes Glocestriae obierunt."), 55 (sub A.D. 1197: "Obiit Hawisa comitissa Glocestriæ, viii. kal. Mail [24 April]."). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 49-50 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Arch. Cambrensis 4th Ser. 3 (1872): lxxiii-lxxiv (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester dated 1172-83; charter witnessed by his wife, Countess Hawise, and Hamon le Gras); 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 124 (sub A.D. 1182: "Obiit Guillermus, comes Gloecestriae, sine heredibus, absque tribus filiabus, quarum una est comitissa Ebroicensis; altera, uxor Guillermi, comitis de Clara; tercia est in manu Dei et domini regis, et cui voluerit dabit eam."). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1158-1159 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 1) (1884): 42 (sub Devonshire: Thomas "kinsman" of Earl of Gloucester [Thomas nepos Comitis Gloec.] "deb L. m. p t[er]ra sua de Chilcheton [Kilkhampton]" in 1158-59). Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1159-1160 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 2) (1884): 51 (sub Devonshire: Thomas styled "kinsman of [William] Earl of Gloucester" [Thomas nepos Com[itis] Gloec.] in 1159-60). Gross Gild Merchant 2 (1890): 28-29 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II of England). Clark Carta et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 80, 83, 85, & 101 (charters of William, Earl of Gloucester), 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 472 (Ex Obituatiis Lirensis Monasterii: "25 Maii Obiit Hawis, comitissa Gloecestræ."), 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "23 Nov. Obiit Willelmus, comes Glocestriæ."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Report & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 465,469 (Extracts from the Pipe Rolls 5 Henry II, 1158-1159, Devonshire: Thomas, grandson of the Earl of Gloucester - In 1158-1159 he owed 50 marks for his land of Chittlehampton, Devon and 50 marks from a plea of William Fitz John). C.P.R. 1348-1350 (1905): 546 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman"[cognatus] by King Henry II of England in undated charter). Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1175-1176 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 25) (1904): 160 ("Tomas nepos comitis Gloec' [Thomas kinsman of the Earl of Gloucester] et Ricardus filius ejus reddt. comp. de .xl. m. pro eodem. In thesauro .xx. m. Et debent .xx. m."). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1176-1177 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 26) (1905): 22 ("Tomas nepos Comitis Gloecestr' [Thomas kinsman of the Earl of Gloucester] et Ricardus filius ejus reddunt comp. de .xx. m. pro eodem. In thesauro .x. 1. Et in perdona per breve Regis Ricardo de Graenuill' patri ipsius Tome .v. m. Et quieti suer."). Ballard British Borough Charters 1042-1216 (1913): 27-28 (charter of Hawise, Countess of Gloucester dated 1183-97). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, dated c.1150-60). Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 259-260. C.P. 5 (1926): 687-688 (sub Gloucester), 6 (1926): 502. Delisle & Berger Reared des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre, Duc de Normandie 3 (1927): 136 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II of England). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. David Walker "Charters of the Earldom of Hereford, 1095-1201," in Camden Miscellany Vol. XXII (Camden Soc. 4th Ser. 1) (1964): 19-20. Darlington Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Register I) (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 38) (1968): 29-30. VCH Worcester 2 (1971): 156-158 (Priory of Cookhilll had "the mill of Carnpden [Chipping Campden, Gloucester] by the gift of Thomas, nephew of the earl of Gloucester."); also see Trans. Bristol & Gloucestershire Arch. Soc. 9 (1884-85): 175. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 190-191. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 148-149 (gift and confirmation of Thomas "nephew [recte kinsman] of the earl of Gloucester and Mabilla his wife; charter names Mabel's uncle, Richard de Greinvilla, "whose patrimony was all the land of Kilkhampton (Chilcumtonia)," Devon) [Note: Richard de Greinville was presumably the uncle of Thomas, not of his wife Mabel; see the Pipe Roll entry for 1176-7 above]. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William Ito Richard 12 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 600-601 (Jocelin [de Bohun], Bishop of Salisbury, styled "kinsman" by William, Earl of Gloucester). University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #01400102 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester dated 1147-48) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Worcestershire Rec. Office, Berrington Coll. 705:24/77 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Children of William Fitz Robert, by Hawise of Leicester:
i. ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER, son and heir apparent, son and heir, born at Cardiff. He died unmarried at Cardiff in 1166. C.P. 5 (1926): 689 (sub Gloucester). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Cornwall Rec. Office: Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice, AR/20/1 (Robert, son of Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" by King Henry II of England).
ii. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married in 1170 AMAURY III DE MONTFORT, Count of Evreux in Normandy. They had one son, Amaury [IV] [Count of Evreux, Earl of Gloucester]. Amaury III, Count of Evreux, died in 1187-93. She fined for custody of her heir and some or all of his lands by 1195. His widow, Mabel, died in 1198. C.P. 5 (1926): 689, 692-693 (sub Gloucester). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 32, 63, 64, 212, 230, 235, 294.
iii. AMICE OF GLOUCESTER, married RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt., 3rd Earl of Hertford [see CLARE 5].
iv. ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER, Countess of Gloucester, married (1st) JOHN, King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou [see ENGLAND 5]; (2nd) GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2.i]; (3rd) HUBERT DE BURGH, Knt., Earl of Kent [see BARDOLF 8; SCOTLAND 4.1].
Illegitimate child of William Fitz Robert, by an unknown mistress, ___:
i. ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER. He married AGNES ___. His wife, Agnes, is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls in 1191, 1192, and 1194: Stenton Great Rolls of the Pipe: Mich. 1191 and Mich. 1192 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 2) (1926): 18 (Date: Mich. 1191 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis Gloec' debet lv m. per cartam."), 225 (Date: Mich. 1192 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis de Gloecr.' debet l m. per cartam."); Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe: Michaelmas 1194 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 96 (Date: Mich. 1194 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis de Gloecr' debet 1 m. per cartam.").”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,” 1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem” (unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain.
Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.).
Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael:
i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next].
ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4].
iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4].
iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].”
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