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Robert FitzEdith (1093 - 1172)

Robert FitzEdith
Born in Devon, Englandmap
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Died at about age 79 [location unknown]
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Biography

SEE: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy's Medieval Lands Index entry for Robert FitzEdith

Robert was the illegitimate son of Henry I and Edith, (of unknown parentage.) He was styled Robert FitzEdith or Robert FitzRoy. By 1130, he owned land in Devon, and is listed on the Pipe Role for 1129/1130. During the Civil War, he was on the side of his half-sister Matilda. He may have died in 1172, however "Robertus filius Regis" is named in an official document in 1176/77.

Robert married twice, but the name of his first wife is unknown. His second marriage, late in life but before 1162, was to Matilda d'Avranches, Robert d´Avranches & Matilda Avenell. He was her second husband. They had one daughter, Matilda, who married Guillaume de Courtenay, son of Renaud Seigneur de Courtenay.[1]

Robert FitzEdith is not the same person as another of Henry's illegitimate sons, Robert de Caen, who was created 1st Earl of Gloucester in 1122.[2]

Sources

  1. ↑ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20Kings%201066-1603.htm#Marydied1224]]
  2. ↑ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#RobertCaenFitzroydied1147B




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Lancaster-1279 Andrew Lancaster
Historian Kathleen Thompson cites the following as a useful source for Robert: Judith Green, ‘Family matters: family and the formation of the empress’s party in south-west England’, in: Family trees and the roots of politics: the prosopography of Britain and France from the tenth to the twelfth century, ed. Katharine. Keats-Rohan (Woodbridge, 1997)
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Smith-28671 Wendy (Smith) Hampton
I have a note (no source info - sorry) that Robert was married to Maud d'Avranches du Sap and that they had one recorded dau Mary, who married Renaud Courtney, son of Miles Courtney & Ermengarde of Nevers)
posted by Wendy (Smith) Hampton

Rejected matches › › Robert (FitzRoy) de Caen (1090-1147)

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