Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Helen FITZHARDING Birth: 1
- Maurice FITZROBERT FITZHARDING, Baron Of Berkele Birth: Abt 1120 in Bristol
Death: 16 Jun 1190
- Robert De GHENT, Baron Of Beverstone Birth: 3
Death: 1194
- Nicholas De BERKELEY Death: 1195
- Aldeva FITZHARDING
- Henry FITZHARDING, Archdeacon Of Exeter Death: Aug 1188 in Rome
Bibliography
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Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
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Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 02 Bass-Canning. London: St Catherine Press, 1912. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 2 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo02coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP II [Ap][p0-9].*].
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Phillips, Chris, Proposed Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage, http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/index.shtml Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP++(proposed) .*].
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Foss, Edward, Biographia Juridica, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, London: John Murray, 1870. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Foss Judges p[0-9]*].
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Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
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Sources for birth and parent Information
- date:
- died 1170-1 aged 75 [Ref: Watney WALLOP #93]
- died 1170/1 age 75 [Ref: CP II p125]
- second son [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p244],
- father:
- [Ref: CP II p124, Keats-Rohan DD p904, Keats-Rohan DP p244, Lyte
Dunster v1p63, Watney WALLOP #93]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- [Ref: CP II p125, Keats-Rohan DD p905]
- 1170-1 [Ref: Burke Peerage p180]
- 1170s [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p244]
- 1171 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p13]
- 5 Feb 1170 [Ref: Foss Judges p85]
- 5 Feb 1171 [Ref: Watney WALLOP #93]
Sources for burial Information
- place:
- [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p905]
Sources with Information about marriage to Eve
- child:
- [Ref: Burke Peerage p180, CP II p125, Keats-Rohan DD p905, Watney
WALLOP #93]
Research Notes:
of Bristol [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p64]
called "Robert the Devout" [Ref: CP II p124]
Merchant of Bristol, of great wealth and influence [Ref: CP II p125]
1141: founded the Abbey of St. Augustine, at Bristol, of which he
afterwards became a canon [Ref: CP II p125, Keats-Rohan DD p905]
1153: joined the party of Duke Henry, in a charter in which he occurs with his
son Henry, his brother Jordan, and his nephews Jordan and David [Ref:
Keats-Rohan DD p904]
1153-54: Duke Henry confirmed the dower of Robert's daughter Aldeva,
given to her by her husband Nigel fitz Arthur [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p905]
obtained a grant from Henry II, while Duke of Normandy, of the castle and
lordship of Berkeley, of which Roger de Berkeley had been deprived for his
adherence to King Stephen; but Roger still urging his claim, an agreement was
entered that Maurice, the son of Robert, should marry Alicia, the daughter of
Roger. [Ref: Foss Judges p85]
soon after 1154: granted lordship of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, from
which Roger III of Berkeley was displaced [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p905]
before 1166: received the Barony of Beverstone (manors of Beverstone,
Elberton, and King's Weston) [Ref: Sanders Baronies p14]
before 1166: manor of Berkeley was separated from the lordship of Dursley, and
granted to Robert fitz Harding; it became the caput of an independent barony
[Ref: Sanders Baronies p13]
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