Robert Fitzhamon

Robert FitzHamon
Suprug/a/e/ziSybil de Montgomery
OtacHaimo
Rođen/ac. 1045-1055
Umro/lamart 1107.

Robert Fitzhamon (? - mart 1107) ili Robert FitzHamon, Sieur de Creully (Creully u oblasti Calvados) i Sieur de Torigny (u oblasti Manche u Normandiji) bio je anglo-nomanrski feudalac koji je nakon normanskog osvajanja postao gospodar (lord) Gloucestera u Engleskoj, a poslije osvajanja i Glamorgana u južnom Walesu. Izvori o njegovom ranom životu su oskudni, iako se navodi da je bio u rodu s Williamom Osvajačem. Glamorgan je osvojio 1075. Tokom vladavine Williamovih sinova Williama Rufusa i Henryja I bio je jedan od rijetkih anglo-normanskih magnata koji im je sve vrijeme ostao odan.

Njegova praunuka Isabel od Gloucestera se kasnije udala za kralja Johna.

Literatura

  • C. Warren Hollister, Henry I
  • Lynn Nelson, The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171 Arhivirano 2005-11-13 na Wayback Machine-u (see especially pp. 94–110 in chapter 5)
  • Cardiff Castle
  • Norman invasion of South Wales
  • Tour of the Abbey
  • Lord of Bristol refers to Robert Fitzhamon as Lord of Bristol, which town and castle became important to his son-in-law.
  • Robert of Caen, son-in-law is said here to be grandson of a Welsh prince but most other sources say that his mother was an unnamed woman of Caen.
  • Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 63-26, 124A-26, 125-26, 185-1.

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