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Robert FitzHarding (1122 - abt. 1195)

Robert "Juvenis" FitzHarding aka de Weare
Born in Gloucestershire, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Son of and [mother unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of — married about 1185 in Englandmap [uncertain]
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Died about at about age 73 in Gloucestershire, Englandmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Robert de Weare (or de Were) as he was often styled was the son of Robert Fitzharding and Eva [1]

Robert Fitzharding notified his grant of land of Combe to his brother Helyas by charter dated to [1150/60], witnessed by “Domina Eva, Maurice, Nicholas and Robert his sons...Otho son of William...[2]

He held his fathers manors of Billeswyck near Bristol, Kingsweston, Redwick and Beverston Gloucestershire by his older brother Robert[1] [3]

Robert of Weare, enjoyed a demesne income of about £31 from his estates in Bristol and Gloucestershire. Though he made a bad financial decision by loaning the borough's lord and son, William of Gloucester, 60 marks. The earl never repaid it, and John Lackland, William's successor as earl of Gloucester, squeezed 20 marks more from Robert for the alleged privilege of being freed from rendering the service due from his lands until the loan was repaid [4][5]

He married two women of importance [4]

Firstly Avice Paynel who died sometime after 1182/85,
Secondly Hawise, daughter and heiress of Robert de Gournay of Barrow

He died c1195 (Gurney has 1230, Patterson 1171)[1] [3] [4]

Research Notes

Usually called Robert de Weare, he received generous treatment from his father. FitzHarding granted to him the manors of Beverston, King's Weston and Elberton in Berkeley Herness, those of Over, Redwick and Northwick elsewhere in Gloucestershire, and in Somerset the manors of Weare and Pawlett, with the three hundreds. [BCM/A/2/84; Smyth, i. 50-1.] Robert married, first, Hawise, the twice-widowed but still childless daughter and heir of Robert de Gurney, who brought him the Somerset manors of Barrow and Englishcombe. She had a daughter Eve but was dead by 1168. [Smyth, i. 52; Ellis.] By 1182 Robert had bought the wardship of his second wife, Avice, daughter of Robert de Gaunt and heir of her mother Alice Paynel. [Smyth, i. 52; Sanders, English Baronies, 55.] Avice died in 1192 in the lifetime of her father, and in 1193-4 and 1194-5 Robert was paying 33 marks to have the lands of Alice Paynel. [Ellis; Smyth, i. 52.] Robert died in 1195 leaving as his heir his son by Avice, [6]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Berkeley manuscripts. The lives of the Berkeleys, lords of the honour, castle and manor of Berkeley, in the county of Gloucester, from 1066 to 1618; by Smyth, John, 1567-1640 Publication date 1883 Page 26
  2. Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands": A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families © by Charles Cawley, hosted by Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG). See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands. English Lords A-C ROBERT “Juvenis” de Berkeley (-[1195). (Accessed 1 Jun 2023)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Record of the house of Gourney by Gurney, Daniel, 1791-1880 Publication date 1848 Page 606
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Patterson, Robert. Haskins Society Journal Studies in Medieval History: Volume 1. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1989.
  5. Wikipedia contributors, "Earl of Gloucester," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Earl_of_Gloucester&oldid=1086379917 (accessed May 29, 2023).
  6. National Archives Berkeley Castle Muniments

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Can we get “the Devout” out of his name-name and into his Nickname, or whatever? It shouldn't show in the pedigree view etc.
posted by Isaac Taylor

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