Robert FitzHamon (1070 - abt. 1107)

Born 1070 in Crelly, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

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Died about 10 Mar 1107 at about age 37 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France

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Biography

Robert FitzHamon was Seigneur (lord) de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy. He was the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, South Wales. He became lord of Glamorgan in 1075. He was a kinsman of William the Conqueror.^[1]

In 1105 he went to Normandy and was captured while fighting near his ancestral estates near Bayeux. Henry I crossed the Channel with a substantial force later that year, freeing FitzHamon who Joined Henry's campaign, which proceeded to besiege Falaise. There Fizthamon was severely injured in the head, and although he lived two more years he was never the same mentally. He was buried in the Chapter House at Tewkesbury Abbey, which he had founded and considerably enriched during his lifetime.^[1]

Note. Information about the Tewkesbury chantry for Robert Fitz Hamon was received by Alton Rogers from Tewkesbury Abbey Hon. Archivist Mr. G. F. Strawford in October 2006: The chantry of Robert Fitz Hamon is an intact stone-cage chapel on the north side of the presbytery, c. 1395.

Not much is known about his earlier life, or his precise relationship to William the Conqueror.^[1]

Name

Robert FitzHAMON^[1]

Lord Robert of Tewksbury Fitzhamon

Robert Fitzhamon^[2][3]

Occupation

Earl of Corbell; conqueror of Glamorgan, Wales

Lord of Glamorgan

Birth

1045-55

1060 Crelly, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Death

10 Mar 1107 Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France^[2]

Sources

• Massé, Henri. The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury (George Bell & Sons, London, 1900)

Page 6-7: He had "four daughters two became abbesses, another was married to the Earl of Brittany, and Mabel was given to Robert, one of the many illegitimate sons of Henry I"

• Wikipedia:Robert_Fitzhamon
• Dictionary of National Biography (Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900) http://search.Ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=dictnatbiogv1&h=22497&ti=5544&indiv=try&gss=pt Death: Mar 1107.
• Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland. http://search.Ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=flhg-burkebaronetcies&h=366787&ti=5544&indiv=try&gss=pt
• Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Medieval Lands data content and text are copyright © Charles Cawley, 2006-15.
• "The Lords of Cardiff," in Cardiff Records: Volume 2, ed. John Hobson Matthews (Cardiff: Cardiff Records Committee, 1900), 42-55. British History Online, accessed May 12, 2017, [1].

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Wikipedia
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Dictionary of National Biography
3. ↑ Burke