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Birth:          ABT 1070 Pays de Caux, Normandy
Death:          AFT 1135 Alcester, Warwickshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I03931
The following material was excerpted from The Corbet Study Group, J.C. Nobel, online 
at
http://website.lineone.net/~corbett_group/First/people.htm:

The Anglo Norman Corbets by Barbara Coulton

It is because of Henry I's personal propensities that we know something of two Corbet 
women who occur in the records of this period. Of his numerous mistresses Sibyl 
Corbet, elder daughter of Robert fitz Corbet of Longden, must have been a favourite 
since she bore four, possibly five, of Henry's illegitimate children.31 She had a 
younger sister Alice. Where, when and how the liaison began between Henry and 
Sibyl is a mystery. He had already had children by various mistresses: among the 
oldest must have been Juliane, who married Eustace de Pacy lord of Breteuil in 1103, 
and rebelled against her father; and Robert, born of an unknown woman of Caen, who 
was created earl of Gloucester by his father in 1122.32 The known children by Sibyl 
Corbet were Rainaud de Dunstanville, his brother William and sisters Gundred and 
Rohese; it is also possible, but not certain, that Sibyl was the mother of the king's 
illegitimate daughter Sibyl who was married to Alexander after he became king of the 
Scots in 1107. . . .

Robert fitz Corbet is a shadowy figure, witnessing some charters and receiving the 
town of Alcester in Warwickshire for his service to the king. His gift of the vill of 
'Loketon' to Shrewsbury Abbey presents a problem, pointed out by Eyton: neither 
Loughton in Clee nor Loton near Alberbury was held by Robert; Loton was held by his 
brother Roger in 1086. The gift is dated to the period 1108-1121. He followed his 
brother in attesting King Henry's charter confirming gifts to Shrewsbury Abbey, 
possibly in January 1121: "ego Rogerius filius corbet sunscripsi. Ego Robertus frater 
eiusdem subscripsi." Their names are followed by those of Fulk, under-sheriff, Herbert 
son of Helgot, Baldwin de Bollers, Ulger venator and Ralph of Condover, concluding 
the list. It is the last record of the sons of Corbet, fifty years after their first coming to 
Shropshire.

Note: CP describes Robert "of Alcester" rather than "of Longden", so I will place 
Robert at Alcester at his death, while his daughters may have been born in Longden, 
which is 2 1/2 miles East of Pontesbury, Shropshire.

Parents
DE CORBET Robert (ABT 1033 - BEF 1086)
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Siblings
DE CORBET Roger (ABT 1058 - AFT Jan 1121)
DE CORBET Robert (ABT 1070 - AFT 1135)

Marriage To 
Children by 
DE CORBET Sibyl (ABT 1092 - AFT 1157)
DE CORBET Alice (ABT 1100 - BEF 1149)

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