Robert "de Caen" [Earl of] GLOUCESTER

                   RESEARCH NOTES:
      1. Some authorities claim the mother of Robert, Earl of Gloucester to be Nesta, daughter of Rhees ap Tewder, Prince of South Wales; however, she is more likely to be a French woman from Normandy since Robert was born in Caen, France (see Dict. of Nat'l Biog.)
RESEARCH NOTES:
      2. It is known that Robert had one or two other sons whose names and dates of birth are not known SOURCES:  1. The Complete Peerage,
SOURCES:
      1. The Complete Peerage, G.E.C., Eng. V, v. 5, p. 683-89, 736
      2. Espolin (GS #12462, pt 1, p. 101)
      3. Dict. of Nat'l Biog., Eng. Pub. A, v. 48, p. 356-58
      4. Kings of England, Eng. 176, p. 30, 45-47
      5. Bristol and Gloucs. Arch. Soc., Gloucs. Pub. A, v. 32, p. 204
      6. Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 100
      7. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 99