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MILO OF GLOUCESTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 479 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILO OF See also:GLOUCESTER , See also:lord of Brecknock and See also:earl of See also:Hereford (d. 1143), was the son of See also:Walter of Gloucester, who appears as See also:sheriff of that See also:county between 1104 and 1121. Milo succeeded his See also:father about the latter See also:year. He was high in the service of See also:Henry I. between 1130 and 1135, and combined the See also:office of sheriff with that of See also:local See also:justiciar for Gloucester-See also:shire. After the See also:death of Henry I. he declared for See also:Stephen, at whose See also:court he appears as See also:constable in 1136. But in 1139, when the empress See also:Matilda appeared in See also:England, he declared for her, and placed the See also:city of Gloucester at her disposal; he was further distinguished by sacking the royalist city of See also:Worcester and reducing the county of Hereford. In 1141, at Matilda's See also:coronation, he was rewarded with the earldom of Hereford. He remained loyal to the empress after her defeat at See also:Winchester. See also:John of See also:Salisbury classes him with See also:Geoffrey de See also:Mandeville and others who were non See also:tam comites regni quam hostes publici. The See also:charge is justified by his public policy; but the materials for appraising his See also:personal See also:character do not exist. See the Continuation of See also:Florence of Worcester (ed. B.

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

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