Person:Robert Fitzharding (11)

Robert fitz Harding De Berkeley
m.
  1. Robert fitz Harding De BerkeleyAbt 1095 - 1170
m. 1119
  1. Maurice Fitz Robert Fitzharding _____Abt 1120 - Aft 1187/88
  2. Robert De Were FitzhardingAbt 1122 -
  3. Alice Fitzharding1124 -
  4. Nicholas FitzhardingAbt 1124 - 1189
  5. Thomas Fitz HardingAbt 1126 -
  6. Henry FitzhardingAbt 1128 - 1188
  7. Helena FitzhardingAbt 1130 - Bef 1190
  8. Aldena FitzhardingAbt 1132 -
  9. Eva Fitzharding1137 -
Facts and Events
Name Robert fitz Harding De Berkeley
Alt Name Robert "the Devout" _____
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1095 Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Marriage 1119 Bristol, Gloucestershire, Englandto Eva Fitz Estmond _____
Death[2] 5 Feb 1170 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Reference Number? Q7344370?


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Robert Fitzharding (c. 1095–1170) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman from Bristol who was granted the feudal barony of Berkeley in Gloucestershire. He rebuilt Berkeley Castle, and founded the Berkeley family which still occupies it today.[1] He was a wealthy Bristol merchant and a financier of the future King Henry II of England (1133-1189) in the period known as the Anarchy during which Henry's mother, the Empress Matilda (1102-1167), mounted repeated military challenges to King Stephen (d. 1154). Fitzharding founded St. Augustine's Abbey, which after the Reformation became Bristol Cathedral.[2] Many members of the Berkeley family were buried within it, and some of their effigies survive there. As J. Horace Round asserted he was one of the very few Anglo-Saxon noblemen who managed to retain their noble status in Norman England and successfully integrate with the Norman nobility, if not the only one.

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References
  1.   Robert Fitzharding, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. Robert fitz Harding, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  3.   ROBERT FitzHarding, son of HARDING & his wife --- ([1094/96]-5 Feb 1171, bur Bristol St Augustine)., in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.