Earl William Fitz Robert GLOUCESTER ¹

   Other names for William were "Mafonache", FITZ ROBERT and GLOUCESTER Earl.

   Ancestral File Number: V9V7-D7. User ID: 75639522.

   General Notes:

"Mafonache", Earl of GLOUCESTER.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "William Fitzrobert Earl of Gloucester,Mar Hawise Daughter of Robert De Beaumont Earl of Leicester, Died 1183."

Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "John Lackland (Sans Terre) Lord of Ireland, Count of Mortain, Mar =1Isabel Countess of Gloucester, Daughter of William Fitz Robert, Son of Robert, Bastard Son of King Henry I."

The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch XIV, p308:
[1173] "...Henry had onhis side also a goodly list of English earls: the illegitimate members of his house, Hamelin of Surrey, Reginald of Cornwall, and William of Gloucester; the earls of Arundel, Pembroke, Salisbury, Hertford, and Northampton; the son of the traitor of his mother's time, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex; and William of Beaumont, Earl of Warwick, whose cousins of Leicester and Meulan were of the young king's party. The new men of his grandfather's making were also with him and the mass of the middle class."

Ch XV, p317:
[1175] "...William, Earl of Gloucester, was compelled to give up Bristol castle which he had kept until now..."
p328: "...Before the close of this year, 1176, Henry arranged for another marriage to provide for his youngest son John, now ten years old...The inheritance which his father had now in mind was that of the great Earl Robert of Gloucester, brother and supporter of the Empress Matilda, his father's mother. Robert's son William had only daughters. Of these two were already married, Mabel to Amaury, Count of Evreux, and Amice to Richard of Clare, Earl of Hertford. Henry undertook to provide for these by pensions on the understanding that all the lands of the earldom should go to John on his marriage with the youngest daughter Isabel. To this plan Earl William agreed. The marriage itself did not take place until after the death of King Henry."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol X, p236, John of England: "On Richard's accession in July 1189, John was made Count of Mortain (a title that became his usual style), was confrimed as lord of Ireland, was granted lands and revenues in England worth 6,000Lb a year, and was married to Isabella, heiress to the earldom of Gloucester..."
"The renewal of war in France was triggered off by John's second marriage. His first wife, Isabella of Gloucester, was never crowned, and in 1199 the marriage was dissolved on grounds of consanguinity, both parties being great-grandchildren of Henry I."

The Story of Civilization, Will Durant, Vol IV, The Age of Faith, Bk V, The Climax of Christianity, Ch XXV, The Recovery of Europe, Sec 3, Magna Carta, p674: "In 1199 John secured permission from Pope Innocent III to divorce Isabel of Gloucester on grounds of consanguinuity..."

ANCESTRY.COM
World Ancestral Chart No. 17450 Ancestors of Wayne G Thorpe and Olive Loraine Slade: Earl William FITZROBERT, Charlemagne Descendant (Amice GLOUCESTER< William GLOUCESTER< Robert GLOUCESTER< Henry ENGLAND< William NORMANDY).
World Ancestral Chart No. 31759 Ancestors of Warren Cash 1760.

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.13 V9V7-D7 William "Mafonache" FITZROBERT [Earl of Gloucester] Born Abt 23 Nov 1116 Gloucestershire England Mar Abt 1150 Hawise De Beaumont of Leicester Died 23 Nov 1183 Spms Bur Priory Keynsham Somersetshire England.

FAMILY SEARCH ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File v4.19 V9V7-D7 Died in Spms.

   Marriage Information:

William married Countess Hawise De Beaumont GLOUCESTER, daughter of Earl Robert De Beaumont LEICESTER, II and Countess Amice De Gael LEICESTER, about 1150 in , Leicestershire, England. (Countess Hawise De Beaumont GLOUCESTER was born about 1129 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England and died on 24 Apr 1197.)