Robert of Gloucester
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Robert of Gloucester may refer to one of two persons prominent in medieval England:
- Robert, 1st Earl of GloucesterRobert, 1st Earl of GloucesterRobert Fitzroy, 1st Earl of Gloucester was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England. He was called "Rufus" and occasionally "de Caen", he is also known as Robert "the Consul"...
(~1090-31 October 1147), a major figure in The Anarchy and supporter of Empress Matilda against King Stephen - Robert of Gloucester (historian)Robert of Gloucester (historian)Robert of Gloucester wrote a chronicle of British, English, and Norman history sometime in the mid- or late-thirteenth century. The Chronicle survives in some 16 manuscripts, ranging in date from the early fourteenth to mid-fifteenth centuries, and was of considerable interest to contemporaries...
(dates unknown), who wrote a chronicle of early English history in the thirteenth century