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	Thornbury Castle
	A history of the Manor and Castle

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Information:

Meet the Castle Builder.

Who was executed?

A holders family tree

A history of the castle

Once a manor house

Other castles

How it might have looked

Paintings of the castle

An owner's timeline

A plan of the castle

A modern hotel

Sir Algar a local hero

The families:

Centuries:

Pevious holders			Next holders

William II	Robert FitzHamon	Mabel FitzHamon	William FitzRobert	Aumaie de Montfort
1083	1090	1117	1157	1183
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Mabel FITZHAMON

Alternative name: Amabel

1090-1157

Titles: Countess of Gloucester; Lady of Glamorgan; Dame of Sainte-Scholasse-sur-Sarthe; Dame of Evrecy; Dame of Creully.

Family: 5 sons 2 daughters.

The manor: Mabel inherited the manor from her father Robert Fitzhammon and held it between 1107-57.

Father Robert Fitzhamon.

Mother Sybil de Montgomery.

Son William; Roger; Robert; Richard; Philip.

Daughters Maud; Mabel.

Read more about Mabel on the Internet.

Robert de FITZROY

1090-1147

Titles: 1st Earl of Gloucester; 2nd Lord of Glamorgan.

AKA: Robert de Caen & FitzEdith.

Birth: Illegitimate son of Henry I the king!

Posts held: Commander in Chief of the Army supporting Matilda of England.

Family: He also had 4 illegitimate children!

Father Henry I.

Mother possibly from the Gay (or Gayt) family of Oxfordshire!

Further information: Read more about Robert on the Internet.

Ruling monarchs

Henry I

Stephen I

Matilda

Henry II

A timeline of the holders of the manor and castle from Saxon times to the modern day.


Alfred the Great	Edward the Elder	Altelstan	Aelfwaerd	Aylward	Aelfgar	Brictric	Mathilda	William I	William II	Robert FitzHamon	Mabel FitzHamon	William FitzRobert	Aumarie de Montfort	Amice FitzRobert	Isobel FitzRobert	Gilbert de Clare	Richard de Clare	Gilbert de Clare	Margaret de Clare	Margaret Audley	Hugh de Stafford	Edmund Stafford	Humphrey Stafford	Humphrey Stafford
?	?	?	?	?	980	1051	1062	1070	1083	1090	1107	1157	1183	1213	1213	1225	1230	1262	1295	1342	1349	1386	1403	1460

Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry VII	Edward VI	Mary I	Henry Stafford	Ursula Pole	Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry Stafford	Mary Stafford	William Howard	Henry Stafford Howard	William Stafford Howard	Thomas Howard	Philip Howard	Edward Howard	Henry Molyneux-Howard	Henry Howard	Edward Howard	Algar Howard	Kenneth Bell	Maurice Taylor	Hotel groups
1470	1483	1521	1547	1553	1554	1554	1563	1566	1603	1625	1637	1637	1693	1719	1727	1732	1750	1777	1824	1875	1916	1966	1988	?