Robert fitzEdith

{{Short description|Illegitimate son of Henry I of England}}

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Robert FitzEdith, feudal lord of Okehampton (1093–1172) was an illegitimate son of Henry I of England and Edith Forne, who was a mistress of Henry I.{{cite book|last=Fleming|first=Donald F.|last2=Pope|first2=Janet M.|title=Henry I and the Anglo-Norman world: studies in memory of C. Warren Hollister|year=2007|publisher=Boydell Press|location=Suffolk, UK|isbn=978-1-84383-293-5|pages=35–36}} Compared to many of his illegitimate siblings and half-siblings, not much is known about him. Robert married Matilda d'Avranches,{{cite book|last=Harper-Bill|first=Christopher|title=Anglo-Norman Studies XVIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1995|year=1996|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|location=Suffolk, UK|isbn=978-0-85115-666-8|page=43}} heiress of the feudal barony of Okehampton, Devon, and widow of William de Courcy. They had one daughter, Maud, who married Renaud, Sire of Courtenay (son of Miles, Sire of Courtenay and Ermengarde of Nevers).{{cite book|last=Burke|first=Sir Bernard|title=A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_K3MaAAAAYAAJ|year=1866|publisher=Harrison|page=140}} Robert died of natural causes.