Mabel FitzHamon 1 2
Other names for Mabel were Matilda FitzHamon and Sibylle FitzHamon. General Notes: MABEL [Matilda or Sibylle] (-[29 Sep] 1157). The Chronica de Fundatoribus et Fundatione of Tewkesbury Abbey names (in order) "Mabiliam, Hawysiam, Ceciliam, Amisiam" as the four daughters of "Robertum filium Haymonis, dominum de Astramervilla in Normannia", recording that Mabile married Robert Fitzroy. Her marriage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis, who also names her parents. Robert of Torigny records that "filia Roberti Belismensis" was the mother of "Rogerius Wigornensis episcopus", son of "Robertus comes Gloecestrensis…filius primi Henrici regis Anglorum", clarifying that the bishop's grandfather was "Robertus filius Haimonis dominus de Torigneio". The Annals of Tewkesbury record that "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ" died in 1157. Mabel married Robert FitzRoy 1st Earl of Gloucester, son of Henry I of England King of England, Duc de Normandie and Mistress 1, before 1112. (Robert FitzRoy 1st Earl of Gloucester was born about 1090 in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, FR,4 died on 31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, GB 1 and was buried in Bristol Priory (St. James's Priory) [now Priory Church of St. James], Bristol, GB.) |
1 Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, David Faris, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants</i> (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 63-26.
2 George Edward Cokayne, "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom" (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000), III:166-167.
3 Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, John Ravilious (Therav3), 10 Sep 2002.
4 Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, David Faris, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants</i> (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 124-26.
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