MILO OF

See also:

• GLOUCESTER
• GLOUCESTER (abbreviated as pronounced Glo'ster)
• GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF (1243-1295)
• GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, EARL OF (1222-1262)
• GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF (d. 1147)
• GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE

GLOUCESTER  , lord of Brecknock and earl of Hereford (d . 1143), was the son of Walter of Gloucester, who appears as sheriff of that county between 1104 and 1121 . Milo succeeded his father about the latter year . He was high in the service of Henry I. between 1130 and 1135, and combined the office of sheriff with that of local justiciar for Gloucester-shire . After the death of Henry I. he declared for Stephen, at whose court he appears as constable in 1136 . But in 1139, when the empress Matilda appeared in England, he declared for her, and placed the city of Gloucester at her disposal; he was further distinguished by sacking the royalist city of Worcester and reducing the county of Hereford . In 1141, at Matilda's coronation, he was rewarded with the earldom of Hereford . He remained loyal to the empress after her defeat at Winchester . John of Salisbury classes him with Geoffrey de Mandeville and others who were non tam comites regni quam hostes publici . The charge is justified by his public policy; but the materials for appraising his personal character do not exist . See the Continuation of Florence of Worcester (ed . B .

Thorpe, 1848–'849); the Cartulary of Gloucester Abbey (Rolls series) ; and J . H . Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville (1892) .