The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler: Robert Earl of Gloucester and the Reigns of Henry I and StephenThe Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (c. 1088 1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and eldest son of King Henry I of England (1100 35), who could not succeed his father because he was a bastard. Instead, as the earl of Gloucester, he helped change the course of English history by keeping alive the prospects for an Angevin succession through his leadership of its supporters against his father's