Editing Robert Fitzhamon (section)

==Career in England and Wales==
Few details of Robert's career prior to 1087 are available. Robert probably did not fight at the [[Battle of Hastings]] in 1066, and does not appear in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, although some of his relatives are listed therein. He first comes to prominence in surviving records as a supporter of King [[William II of England|William Rufus]] (1087–1100) during the [[Rebellion of 1088]]. After the revolt was defeated he was granted as a reward by King William Rufus the [[English feudal barony|feudal barony of Gloucester]]<ref>Sanders, I.J., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.6, Barony of Gloucester</ref> consisting of over two hundred [[Manorialism|manor]]s in [[Gloucestershire]] and other counties. Some of these had belonged to the late Queen [[Matilda of Flanders|Matilda]], consort of [[William the Conqueror]] and mother of William Rufus, and had been seized by her from the great [[Saxon]] [[Thegn|thane]] [[Brictric son of Algar]], apparently as a punishment for his having refused her romantic advances in his youth.<ref>According to the account by the ''Continuator of [[Wace]]'' and others, quoted in Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, part 2 (notes), 24,21, quoting "Freeman, E.A., [[The History of the Norman Conquest of England]], 6 vols., Oxford, 1867–1879, vol. 4, Appendix, note 0"</ref> They had been 
destined as the inheritance of Rufus's younger brother Henry (the future King [[Henry I of England|Henry I]]); nevertheless Fitzhamon remained on good terms with Henry.