Robert fitz Haimon

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: March 1107.

The place is given by Green (ODNB).

Place of Burial: the chapter house of Tewkesbury Abbey.

The place is given by Green (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Haimo, steward of William I and William II.

This relationship is given by Green (ODNB). Haimo’s father, Haimo Dentatus, was lord of Torigny, Creully, and Évrecy. He was killed at the battle of Val-ès-Dunes in Normandy in 1047.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Sibyl, daughter of Roger de Montgomery.

This relationship is given by Green (ODNB).

Children:

Mabel (died 1156) married Robert, earl of Gloucester.

Hawise. Abbess of Shaftesbury.

Cecile. Abbess of Winchester.

Amice. [Said to have married a count of Brittany.]

References

Cawley, Charles. “Robert FitzHamon” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Green, Judith A. “Robert fitz Haimon (d. 1107)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).