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Individual Record for: Robert DE CAEN (male)

    I WILLIAM+
  I HENRY      Family Record
Robert DE CAEN      Family Record Matilda DE FLANDERS+
Robert CORBET+
  Sibylla CORBET      Family Record
    Sybil DE CANIETO

Spouse Children
Maud FITZROBERT
  (Family Record)		 Robert FITZROBERT
Richard FITZROBERT
Mabira DE CAEN
Hamon FITZROBERT
William FITZROBERT
Mabel FITZROBERT
Maud FITZROBERT
Philip FITZROBERT
Christina FITZROBERT

Event Date Details
Birth 1090 Place: Caen, Normandy, France
Death 31 OCT 1147 Place: Bristol, Avon, England

Attribute Details
Title Earl
Source:
bulkeley.txt
Notes:
b. c. 1090
d. Oct. 31, 1147
chief supporter of the royal claimant Matilda during her war with King Ste phen of England (reigned 1135-54).

The illegitimate son of King Henry I of England (reigned 1100-35), he w as made Earl of Gloucester in 1122. After the death of Henry I and usurpat ion of power by Stephen (December 1135), Gloucester became the leader of t he party loyal to Matilda, his half sister, who had been designated he ir to the throne by Henry I. He took Matilda to England in September 11 39 and at the head of her forces won from Stephen most of western Engla nd and southern Wales. In February 1141 he captured Stephen at Lincoln a nd imprisoned him in Bristol. Later that year Gloucester was captured at W inchester, Hampshire, and exchanged for the king. He continued to be the m ainstay of Matilda's cause until his death. The 12th-century chroniclers c onsidered Gloucester an able and sagacious leader.


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Notes Source: bulkeley.txt

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