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When Robert FitzHamon Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan was born in 1045, in Essonne, Île-de-France, France, his father, Hamon Fitzhamon De Crevecoeur II, was 13 and his mother, Halwisa 'Alias Elisabeth' de Avoye, was 11. He married Sibyl de Montgomery about 1083. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters.
The first Norman lord of Glamorgan was Robert Fitzhamon (died 1107) (see D.N.B.). He left an heiress, Mabel (' Mabli ' to the Welsh - she died 1157), and Henry bestowed her on his son Robert, raising him, at some time in the year 1121-3, to the earldom of Gloucester, including the lordship of Glamorgan.
Towards the end of the 12th. Century, a portion of the land surrounding Roath Court had been granted to Tewkesbury Abbey, a wealthy Benedictine order, the Abbey Church of which having been established by Robert Fitzhamon. The area was then designated “Roath Tewkesbury”. Another section, gifted to Keynsham Abbey, became “Roath Keynsham”.
Robert FitzHamon was born about 1045 TO ABT 1075 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France, son of Hamon "Dapifer" FitzHamon and Hawise d'Avoye. He was married about 1084 in Of, Normandy, France to Sibyll Sybil de Montgomery, they gave birth to 1 child.
Robert FitzHamon, probably born in the 1040s or 1050s, was the son of Hamo Dapifer the Sheriff of Kent and grandson of Hamon Dentatus ("The Betoothed or Toothy", i.e., probably buck-toothed). His grandfather held the lordships of Torigny, Creully, Mézy, and Evrecy in Normandy, but following his death at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes in 1047, the family might have lost these lordships.
The Winning of the Kingdom of Glamorgan from the Welsh, 1088, being the traditional account of Robert Fitzhamon and the twelve Norman knights who are said to have accompanied him, with an account of St. Donats Castle and the Stradling family, illustrated by numerous water-colour drawings and sketches.
Her father was Robert Fitzhamon, Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan. As she was the eldest daughter of four, and her younger sisters had become nuns, Mabel inherited all of his honours and properties upon his death in 1107. As Countess of Gloucester, Mabel was significant politically and she exercised an important administrative role in the lordship.
