Earl William "Mafonache" FITZROBERT

1128 - 1183  (55 years)

• Name	William "Mafonache" FITZROBERT
  Prefix	Earl
  Nickname	Mafonache
  Birth	1128	Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
  Gender	Male
  Name	Mafonache
  _UID	47EB0703E33744A1829AB7D9EC338C31C36F
  Death	23 Nov 1183
  Burial	Priory, Keynsham, Somersetshire, England
  Person ID	I4118	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Family	Mabel (Hawise) DE BEAUMONT,   b. 1150   d. 24 Apr 1197 (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1150
  Children	1. Countess Amicia FITZROBERT   d. 1 Jan 1224-1225   2. Robert FITZROBERT   d. 1166, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales   3. Isabella FITZROBERT, Of Gloucester,   b. Abt 1158, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d. 14 Oct 1217, Kent, Jefferson County, Indiana (Age ~ 59 years)   4. Mabel FITZROBERT,   b. 1184, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  He was the Earl of Gloucester 1147-1183. In 1128 he was witness to an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fecamp and is mentioned the following year as concurring in the foundation charter of Neath. In October 1141 he was surety for his father Stephen, who Earl Robert had captured at Lincoln. In 1147 he overthrew Henry de Tracy at Castle Cary and in 1153 was one of the witnesses to the agreement between Stephen and Henry (later Henry II). He lived principally at Cardiff and in 1158 he and his wife and son were captured in Cardiff Castle by Ivor the Little and carried and held as prisoners until the Earl agreed to redress Ivor's grievances. In 1173 he sided with the King against his (the King's) sons and went to help the King's forces at the battle of Fornham where he was taken prisoner. In 1176 he named John, the King's son, heir to his earldom in accordance with the promise that John wold marry one of his daughters. He witnessed the arbitration decision between the Kings of Castile and Navarre and in 1178 he witnessed Henry's charter to Waltham Abbey. In April 1183 William was imprisoned by the King along with other magnates of whom he had loyalty doubts. (From Complete Peerage, V:687-688)Some call him Earl of Bristol. He has also been named as Mafonache. The Complete Peerage vol.V,p687-9.