FITZ-ROBERT, Gilbert

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• Name	FITZ-ROBERT, Gilbert
  Nickname	The Marshall
  Birth	1075	Somerset, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1129	Winterbourne Monkton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
  Burial	1130	Tunbridge, Kent, England
  WAC	15 Nov 1932
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  Person ID	I24402	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	MARESCHAL, Geoffrey Le ,   b. 1056, Venoux, Cher, Centre, France Venoux, Cher, Centre, Franced. Aft 1090, Worldham, Hampshire, England (Age > 35 years)
  Family ID	F13402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	FITZROBERT, Robert ,   b. Abt 1045, Cheddar, Somersetshire, England Cheddar, Somersetshire, England
  Family ID	F13403	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	VENOIX, Margaret de ,   b. 4 Nov 1083, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Walesd. 1129, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (Age 45 years)
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 2 Jun 1936, SLAKE.
  Children	3 sons
  + 1. FITZGILBERT, Marshall John ,   b. Abt 1105, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Walesd. 29 Sep 1165, Newbury Castle, Marlborough, England (Age 60 years)   2. FITZGILBERT, William ,   b. Abt 1107, Somerset, England Somerset, Englandd. 1142 (Age 35 years) + 3. MARSHALL, Earl John ,   b. 1126, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Walesd. 29 Sep 1165, Newbury Castle, Marlborough, England (Age 39 years)
  Family ID	F6888	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Royal Serjeant and Marshal to Henry I. [Wikipedia] BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#JohnFitzGilbertMarshaldied1165 GILBERT "the Marshal", son of --- (-1130 or before). Master Marshal of the king's household under King Henry I[1459]. m ---. The name of Gilbert’s wife is not known. It is possible that she was the heiress of William FitzAuger: the Testa de Nevill includes a writ of King John dated 1212 which records that, after the conquest, King William I granted "manerium de Boseham" in Surrey to "Willelmo filio Augeri", and that later "Willelmus Marescallus" (presumably identified as the future first Earl of Pembroke, see below) held the manor "[jure] hereditario"[1460]. Gilbert & his wife had two children... ** from William Marshal, The Flower of Chilvary (Georges Duby) p 59 It is from another source, then--from the royal charter that conferred the office upon William late in his life--that we learn the name of his paternal grandfather, Gilbert. Yet this name suggests he was the son or nephew of one of the adventurers who followed the Conqueror or joined him in England, attracted by the lure of booty. Perhaps a younger son, this unknown knight surely came from the Continent. We may note that this origin was forgotten by the beginning of the thirteenth century, and in any case that no great issue was made of it among his descendants... A century before his grandson's death, this Gilbert had performed for Henry I of England the functions of marshal of the court; hence his surname, which would become the family name. At this period, marshals lived as domestics; clothed and fed like other members of the household, they expected, beyond their employer's largesse, certain additional benefits, which varied according to the rank the occupied in the hierarchy of servants. Marshals were not situated at the top of this ladder; they were subordinates of one of the major officers, the constable, who controlled the seigneurial stables and everything to do with the horses. But because the calvary's role in military actions had continued to grow since the year 1000, the marshal's function had assumed greater distinction and greater political value. Its importance and fruitfulness was of course in direct proportion to the power of the masters served. In the family of the king of England, the marshal of the court, in Gilbert's day, governed the armed services owed by the vassals of the crown and the disbursement of all moneys earmarked for warfare... Such household offices soon became hereditary. On Gilbert's death around 1130, his eldest son, John--William's father--inherited the title and the prerogatives attached to it... ID: Merged with a record that used the ID 21024054^2.2 ~BAPTISM: Also shown as Baptized 11 Jun 1991, JRIVE. ~ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed 15 Nov 1932