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Godbout – Racicot / LeBeuf – LaHaye
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 Abt 1096 - 1171 (~ 75 years)
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| Name |
Robert Fitz Harding [1, 2] |
| Born |
Abt 1096 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Bristol merchant of great wealth and influence |
| Occupation |
1141 |
| Founded the Abbey of St. Augustine at Bristol |
| Property |
1153 |
| Received a grant for the Castle and "herness" of Berkeley from Henry d'Anjou (shortly before his accession as King Henry II) |
| Occupation |
1155 |
| Feudal Lord of Berkeley |
| Occupation |
1168 |
| Entertained Dermot Mac Murrough (King of Leinster) on his arrival at Bristol to solicit succour from Henry II |
| Property |
Son of Harding (living c. 1125); grandson of Eadnoth (killed 1068), "Staller" to King Harold and Edward the Confessor |
| Died |
5 Feb 1171 |
| Person ID |
I21889 |
Godbout |
| Last Modified |
18 Apr 2017 |
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| Sources |
- [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume II, pp. 124-125.
- [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 50-51.
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