Nielsen Hayden genealogy
William fitz Robert

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Name William fitz Robert [1] Gender Male Death 23 Nov 1183 [2, 3, 4, 5] Burial Kernsham Abbey, Somerset, England [3, 5]
Person ID I5790 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 6 Jan 2018
Father Robert of Gloucester, b. Abt 1090 d. 31 Oct 1147, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 57 years)
Mother Mabel fitz Robert d. 29 Sep 1157 Marriage Bef 1122 [3] Family ID F2180 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Hawise of Leicester d. 24 Apr 1197 Marriage Abt 1150 [3, 4, 5] Children 1. Isabel of Gloucester d. 14 Oct 1217 + 2. Amice of Gloucester d. 1 Jan 1225 Family ID F5507 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 16 Jun 2018
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Notes - Earl of Gloucester. Governor of Wareham Castle, 1144.
"After Henry II's accession in 1154 William's status with his royal cousin began to change. The honour of Eudo Dapifer, which Henry had earlier promised to the earl's son, was given to another. Gloucester understandably yielded place of honour at court to members of the royal family like the king's brother William, and even to Robert, earl of Leicester, who was chief justiciar; but William was also regularly outranked by his uncle, Reginald, earl of Cornwall, who held no central administrative office. In the 1150s there is evidence of a certain ambivalence in Henry's government about Gloucester's right to be exempted from geld and other remittances. The earl's infrequent court appearances indicate that he was becoming a political outsider. Even though he was ultimately favoured by the bountiful royal fiscal patronage accorded to members of his class, served as a royal justice, and was promised that he would enjoy all the estates his father had held, William was to die with his career, earldom, and house in ruins." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]
- Earl of Gloucester. Governor of Wareham Castle, 1144.
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