Earl of Gloucester
The title of Earl of Gloucester was created several times in the Peerage of England. A fictional earl is also a character in William Shakespeare's play King Lear. See also Duke of Gloucester.
Earls of Gloucester, 1st Creation (1121)
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1100–1147)
William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (1121–1183)
Isabel, 3rd Countess of Gloucester (d. 1217) held by husband after 1189, again by her in her own right from 1216 onward.
John of England (1166–1216), on becoming king in 1199 he granted the Earldom to Isabel's nephew
Amaury VI of Montfort-Évreux, (d. 1213), Earl of Gloucester
Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex, Earl of Gloucester, (d. 1216), married Isabel in 1214
Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, 5th Earl of Gloucester (1180–1230), Isabel's nephew