Mabel Fitz Hamon
- Born: Abt 1094, Gloucestershire, England
- Marriage: Robert de Caen in 1115 in Gloucestershire, England 141,160
- Died: 1157, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England about age 63
 General Notes:
Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 124:26, married Robert de Caen, Earl of Gloucester, son of Henry I, daughter and heir of Robert Fitz Hamon, seigneur of Crelly in Calvados, Normandy, Lord of Thoringni, and Sybil de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewbury. 160
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 724
Robert Fitz Hamon married Sybil, the daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl fo Shrewsbury, by whom he four daughters, Mabel, Hawise, Cicely and Amice. When he died, King Henry I was not willing to have such a great estate, along with its titles, be divided amongst females. He made Hawise abbess of Winchester, Cicelia abbess of Shaftesbury, married Amice to the Earl of Brittany, and in 1109, married Mabel to his natural son Robert, whom he created Consul and Earl of Gloucester.
~The History of Tewkesbury, pp. 73-75
• Background Information. 141
Robert the King's Son, styled also de Caen, married Maud (named also Mabel and Sibyl) daughter and heir of Robert Fitz Hamon, Lord of Glamorgan, by Sibyl, daughter of Roger (de Montgomery), 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. He died 31 Oct 1147 at Bristol and was buried at the Priory of St. James, Bristol.
~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. XI, Appendix D, p. 106
Mabel married Robert de Caen, son of Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England and Unknown, in 1115 in Gloucestershire, England. (Robert de Caen was born in 1090 in Caen, Calvados, France,160 died on 31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 141 and was buried in Priory of St. James, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 141.)
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