CAEN

(see also Fitz Robert)

(Ancestral line of descendants of Rev. John Knox, William d' Albini, John de Lacie)

MAUD de CAEN (Fitz Robert) died on 29 July 1189. About 1141, she married Ranulph de Guernan (Meschines and/or Chester), Viscount de Avranches, Earl of Chester, who died on 16 December 1153,

(Ancestral line of descendants of Rev. John Knox, William d' Albini, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacie)

WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Glamorgan and Cardiff Castles, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, died on 23 November 1183, He married Hawise de Beaumont who died on 24 April 1197 , MAUD and WILLIAM were the children of

(Ancestral line of descendants of Rev. John Knox, William d' Albini, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacie)

ROBERT de CAEN "The Consul," Earl of Gloucester, was born about 1090 and died on 31 October 1147. He married Maud Fitz Hamon. Robert was the natural son of

HENRY I, King of England 1100-35, was born in 1070 and died on I December 1135. Henry's mistress, Sibyl Corbet, daughter of Robert Corbet, Burgess of Caen, was the mother of Robert (see England-Norman). It is also reported that his mother was Nesta of Wales, later wife of Gerald of Windsor (see Fitz Maurice).

Ref: Ancestral Roots, pps. 76 and 110; Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 683; Magna Charta, p. 2202.