Mabel FitzRobert, Countess of Gloucester

[1] Mabel was born in Gloucestershire, England around 1100, the eldest of the four daughters of Robert FitzHamon, Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan, and his wife, Sybil de Montgomery.

Her three younger sisters, Hawise, Cecile and Amice[citation needed] all became nuns, making Mabel the sole heiress to her father's lordships and vast estates in England, Wales, and Normandy.

[citation needed] Robert would later become an important figure during the turbulent period in English history known as The Anarchy which occurred in the reign of King Stephen of England.

[citation needed] Mabel brought to her husband the honours of Gloucester in England, Glamorgan in Wales, Sainte-Scholasse-sur-Sarthe, Evrecy and Creully in Normandy.

[4] Later, after Robert's death, Mabel assumed control of the honour of Gloucester's Norman lands on behalf of her eldest son William.

Cardiff Castle in Wales, was one of the properties Mabel brought her husband, Robert upon their marriage