GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF

d. 1147, English nobleman; illegitimate son of Henry I. Henry created (c.1121) the earldom of Gloucester for him. After his father's death (1135), Robert appeared to accept the seizure of the throne by Henry's nephew, Stephen, to whom he did conditional homage in 1136. They soon quarreled, however, and after Stephen had seized (1138) Robert's lands, Robert led a baronial rebellion in favor of his half sister, Matilda. The earl captured Stephen at Lincoln in 1141, but later in the year he himself was captured, while covering Matilda's retreat from Winchester, and exchanged for the king. Robert then went to France to get aid from Matilda's husband, Geoffrey IV of Anjou, and returned to England with her son Henry (later Henry II). Robert held the Angevin party in England together and consistently labored for Matilda's cause.

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Owen Meredith: A Critical Biography of Robert, First Earl of Lytton
Book by Aurelia Brooks Harlan; Columbia University Press, 1946
Subjects: Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton--Earl Of--1831-1891
...Reverend Mr. Holmes christened him Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer at the Spa Church in Gloucester. Two navy captains were pressed into service...or March, 1835, Bulwer visited Rosina at Gloucester, and after a bungling reconciliation left...
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Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, 1641-1702
Book by J. P. Kenyon; Greenwood Press, 1975
Subjects: Sunderland, Robert Spencer--Earl Of--1640-1702
...Algernon Capel, 2nd earl of. 272 n Essex, Arthur Capel, 1st earl of. 25 , 26 , 27 , 28...281 - 6 , 323 Ferrers, Robert Shirley, lord. 162...Ginkel, Godert de. 251 Gloucester, siege of. 2 Gloucester, William, duke of...
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Letters from Owen Meredith: (Robert, First Earl of Lytton) to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book by Aurelia Brooks Harlan, J. Lee Harlan Jr.; Baylor University Press, 1936
Subjects: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett--1806-1861, Browning, Robert--1812-1889
...Cambridge University Press, p. 601. In his early years Robert Lytton hardly knew his sister Emily, a few years older...came to take the mother and two children with her to Gloucester. Robert Lytton could have remembered little, if anything...
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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humanists
Book by Susanne Saygin; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Art Patronage--England--History--To 1500, England--Civilization--Italian Influences, England--Intellectual Life--1066-1485, Great Britain--History--Lancaster And York, 1399-1485--Biography, Great Britain--Relations--Italy, Humanism--England--History--To 1500, Humanists--Italy, Humphrey--Duke Of Gloucester--1391-1447, Humphrey--Duke Of Gloucester--1391-1447--Art Patronage, Italy--Relations--Great Britain, Nobility--Great Britain--Biography, Renaissance--England
...127,129; see also Gloucester, claim to tutela of...108 Grosseteste, Robert 65 de Guillois, Jean...Suffolk, William, earl of dedicatee of literary...3, 80; see also Gloucester, promotes education...161, 182; see also Gloucester, promotes education...
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Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
Book by Alessandra Petrina; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Authors And Patrons--England--History--To 1500, Book Collecting--England--History--To 1500, England--Intellectual Life--1066-1485, Great Britain--History--Lancaster And York, 1399-1485--Biography, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1399-1485, Humanists--England, Humphrey--Duke Of Gloucester--1391-1447, Literary Patrons--Great Britain--Biography, Nobility--Great Britain--Biography
...linformacion des princes est a moy Robert Roos chivaler . It is not clear...from the one to the other. Robert Roos, as well as being related...with the arms of Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.119 In this case...Richard was the son not of Robert but of William Roos, who died...
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South English Legendary Style in Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
Journal article by O. S. Pickering; Medium Aevum, Vol. 70, 2001
Subjects: English literature, 1100-1485 (Middle English period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Manuscripts, English (Middle)--Authorship
...him as `Robert of Gloucester. II In considering...relationship between Robert of Gloucesters Chronicle and the...lives from which Robert is presumed to have...rallying speech of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, is fifty lines...
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Social and Geographical Mobility in the Old World and New World Communities: Earls Colne, Ipswich and Springfield, 1636-1685
Journal article by Robert Von Friedeburg; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1995
Subjects: Ipswich, Massachusetts--Social aspects, Seventeenth century--Massachusetts, Social mobility--Research, Springfield, Massachusetts--Social aspects
...New World communities: Earls Colne, Ipswich and Springfield, 1636-1685. by Robert von Friedeburg The argument...the Essex cloth village Earls Colne. Three points...dependent on Pynchon; Earls Colne was, by comparison...complaint in 1662 by one Robert Coss see G. F. Dow...
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The Duke of Clarence and the Earls of March: Garter Knights and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Journal article by Leo Carruthers; Medium Aevum, Vol. 70, 2001
Subjects: Arthur, King of the Britons--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Chivalry--Literature, Gawain (Fictional character)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Historicism--Usage, Knights and knighthood--History
...of Grosmont, Earl and Duke of Lancaster...97) Duke of Gloucester. The year after...IIs favourites, Robert de Vere, Duke...Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby, claiming...Roger, fourth Earl of March, who...Woodstock (York and Gloucester), then, the...close friends Robert de Vere and Thomas...
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The Uses of Richard III: From Robert Cecil to Richard Nixon
Journal article by M.G. Aune; Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 24, 2006
Subjects: Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Drama--Political aspects, Drama--Social aspects, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Political aspects, Plays--Social aspects, Richard III (Shakespeare, William) (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Richard III (Shakespeare, William) (Play)--Political aspects, Richard III (Shakespeare, William) (Play)--Social aspects, Shakespeare, William--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William--Works
...Pauline. "Cecil, Robert, First Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612...2004): 54-61. Naunton, Robert. Fragmenta Regalia: Memoirs...Transcription. Vol. 8. Ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews...and Windus, 1985. Speaight, Robert. Shakespeare on the Stage...
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George Percy's "trewe Relacyon": a Primary Source for the Jamestown Settlement
Journal article by Mark Nicholls; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 113, 2005
Subjects: American history, Colonialism, Jamestown Virginia, Literary criticism, Percy, George (Earl Percy), Personal profiles, Writers
...son of Henry, eighth earl of Northumberland and...from 1591 to 1593;3 at Gloucester Hall, Oxford;4 and...brother Henry, the ninth earl, undated but probably...that swept through the earls household.6 Among Percys...Northumberlands brother-in-law Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, during the...
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magazine articles on: Gloucester Robert Earl Of  - 24 results

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The Rebellion of Earl Godwin
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 51, September 2001
Subjects: Godwin, Earl of Wessex--Conduct of life, Nobility--Political activity
The Rebellion of Earl Godwin by Richard Cavendish September 8th, 1051 EARL GODWIN of Wessex was...Harold, were both earls themselves and in 1045...appointing a Norman, Robert of Jumieges, as Archbishop...harrying the town. The earl flatly refused and with...an army and threatened Gloucester, where the Confessor...
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Cromwell's Trailblazer? Reinterpreting the Earl of Essex
Magazine article by Graham Seel; History Today, Vol. 45, April 1995
Subjects: Devereux, Robert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Essex, England--History
...Reinterpreting the Earl of Essex by Graham Seel...has not been kind to Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of...background and status, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of...Royalists. When the Earl of Manchester was instructed...Massey, the Governor of Gloucester, wrote to Parliament...
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The Reputation of Robert Cecil
Magazine article by Pauline Croft; History Today, Vol. 43, November 1993
Subjects: Cecil, Robert--Biography, Statesmen--Biography, United Kingdom--History, 1485- (Modern period)
...Pauline Croft, The Reputation of Robert Cecil: Libels, Political Opinion...biography of Cecil is Alan Hayes, Robert Cecil, First Earl of Sailsbury (Peter Owen, 1989...forthcoming study of the political career of Robert Cecil.
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Walpole's Hall of Fame
Magazine article by Alex Barker; History Today, Vol. 47, February 1997
Subjects: Painting--Exhibitions, Walpole, Robert--Collections and collecting
...Britains first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole. His collection, a...Roberts grandson, George, 3rd Earl of Orford, having been valued...murder) of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, five days after his arrest...The king began to favour the Earl of Suffolk -- politically and...
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Graham Whettam: a 75th Birthday Tribute
Magazine article by Robert Matthew-Walker; Musical Opinion, Vol. 126, November 2002
...a 75th Birthday Tribute by Robert Matthew-Walker The composer...imprisonment for their beliefs" as Earl Russell, Founder of CND...Whettams Piano Trio at the Gloucester Music Societys concert on 20...Silverwood Gouse, Woolaston, Gloucester, GL15 6PJ, telephone 01594...
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Gamekeepers Lament ; Fond Farewell: The Tweed Guard, above, and the Earl of Dalkeith, Far Left, and Duchess of Buccleuch Yesterday. Right: The 9th Duke and Duchess in Their Younger Days
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 12, 2007
...Farewell: The Tweed Guard, above, and the Earl of Dalkeith, Far Left, and Duchess of...Duchess in Their Younger Days. Byline: Robert Fairburn, Steven Henry THEY formed a...amongothers, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Roxburghe, LordsAncram...
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Margam's Ghostly Monks Now Haunt US Television; AMERICAN INVESTIGATORS SPOT SPIRITS DURING VISIT
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 6, 2010
...appeared on the show relating the time her hand was brushed by a ghost. Margam Abbey was formed in 1147 by Sir Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the extremely wealthy illegitimate son of Henry I. He originally granted Cistercian monks, from Clairvaux...
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Get Away from It All
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 29, 2004
...ancient village of Kenfig is suggested as a good place to investigate. Originally founded in the 12th Century by Robert, Earl of Gloucester who also built Kenfig Castle, the old town was swamped by the sands of Kenfig Burrows and had to be abandoned...
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Margam Park
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 14, 2006
...Passion Play performed by local actors. Robin Turner: Haunted history:Margam Abbey was formed in 1147 by Sir Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the extremely wealthy illegitimate son of Henry I. He originally granted Cistercian monks from Clairvaux...
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Sullying Good Name of Village; VIEWPOINTS
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), December 31, 2010
...De Sully family. The family had their origins in France and had arrived in Glamorgan in the train of Robert Fitz Hamon, Earl of Gloucester, who occupied the fertile coastal plain of South Wales sometime after 1093. In the following decade...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gloucester Robert Earl Of  - 11 results

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Gloucester, Robert, Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF d. 1147, English nobleman; illegitimate...After his fathers death (1135), Robert appeared to accept the seizure of the...had seized (1138) Roberts lands, Robert led a baronial rebellion in favor of...
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Essex, Robert Devereux, 3d Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, 3D EARL OF 1591 1646, English...general; son of the 2d earl. James I restored him...had fallen in love with Robert Carr, earl of Somerset...took Reading, relieved Gloucester, and took part in the...
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Matilda , Queen of England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...In 1139, Matilda, aided by her half-brother Robert, earl of Gloucester , undertook to recover the throne. After the defeat...Stephen had to be freed in a prisoner exchange for Gloucester. Before the end of the year her forces were routed...
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Stephen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...retain his throne. In 1138, Matildas half brother Robert, earl of Gloucester , renounced his allegiance to Stephen, and David...Anjou, conquered Normandy. In 1147, however, Robert died, and Matilda soon (1148) left England. In...
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Richard II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...court party, led by Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, and Michael...Woodstock, duke of Gloucester . In the so-called...five lords appellant Gloucester; the earl of Arundel...the lords appellant: Gloucester, Arundel, and Warwick...
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