Robert
"Seigneur d’Harcourt, de Cailleville, de Beauficel et de Boissey-le-Châtel"
d'Harcourt
formerly Harcourt
Born about in Leicestershire, England
Ancestors 
Brother of
Errand (Harcourt) d'Harcourt
Husband of
Agnes (Braose) de Harcourt
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Colede (Argouges) de Harcourt
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Agnes (Unknown) d'Harcourt
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Anschetil (Harcourt) de Harcourt, Philippe Harcourt, Richard (Harcourt) d'Harcourt, Robert (Harcourt) d'Harcourt, Guillaume (Harcourt) d'Harcourt, Ivo (Harcourt) d'Harcourt, Henry (Harcourt) de Harcourt and Simon FitzRobert (Harcourt) d'Harcourt
Died before
before about age 78
in Leicestershire, England
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Jul 2011
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Biography
Robert was the son of Anchitel Harcourt by his wife Eve de Boessey. [1]
Robert "the Strong" de Harcourt married Colede d'Argouges. [2]
Robert may have married twice, to the daughter of William de Braose. [3]
Cawley gives his wife as Agnes, citing an 1148 charter of a donation of his son William to the Garendon abbey in Leicestershire, England. [4]
Robert fitz Anschetil had died by 1118 to be succeeded by numerous sons, at least four of whom took shares of his cross-channel estates.
Robert built the castle of Harcourt.[5]
Robert fitz Anschetil (d. in or before 1118) held a large barony from the Beaumonts. The creation of the earldom of Warwick for Henry de Beaumont in 1088 brought Robert an estate of seven fees in Leicestershire and Warwickshire formerly held in chief by Robert de Vescy but subordinated to the earldom.
The Harcourts secured a number of other estates in the same counties when Henry I created the earldom of Leicester for Robert de Beaumont, count of Meulan (d. 1118), in 1107, including Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, which became the Harcourt centre in England in the twelfth century.
Sources
- ↑ Collins, Arthur. Peerage of England: Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical; Greatly Augmented and Continued to the Present Time. Vol. IV, FC&J Rivington, London, 1812, p. 431. [1]
- ↑ Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins.
- ↑ Marshall, George W. The Genealogist. Vol. IV, George Bell and Sons, London, 1880, p. 138.[2]
- ↑ Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. Hosted online by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG), accessed 2021. [3]
- ↑ Père Anselme, Tome V, p. 125
See Also:
- 1. Eng. Pub. AC, Vol. 2, p. 40
- 2. Eng. Pub. AC, Vol. 2, p. 113
- 3. Staffs. A, Vol 2
- 4. Staffs A 1914, p. 187
- 5. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 34.
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I know that some of the dates are off, but the line is right ... Anschetil, whose wife may have been she who remarried Guillaume I de Briouse. Anschetils son Robert d. bef. 1118, his wife is unknown, but 7 children are shown, one being his son Guillaume d. aft. 1154, his son Robert II "le Vaillant" d. 1208.
This is from the FMG and I'm hoping to get it all straightened out.
Dan