Richard Fitz Richard de Clare

• Preferred Name: Richard Fitz Richard de Clare^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LV86-3M3
  
• Birth: 1062 in Tonbridge, Kent, England at LATI: N1.1694 LONG: E0.3167 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Nickname:
  
• Burial: in St Neots, Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England at LATI: N2.2308 LONG: E0.2643 with note: find a grave
  
• Death: 1107 in St Neots, Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England at LATI: N2.2308 LONG: E0.2643 with note: As per attached "Find A Grave Index"
  
• Occupation: Abbot of Ely with note: updateEventReason
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, of Bienfaite and Orbec, Normandy, lord of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, Standon, Hertfordshire, Blechingley, Surrey, etc., son of Gilbert Fitz Godfrey, Count of Brionne, born about 1030-35. He married ROHESE (or ROHAIS, ROHAID, ROAXIDIS) GIFFARD, daughter of Walter Giffard, of Longueville-sur-Scie (Seine-Maritime), Normandy, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Gerard Flaitel (or Fleitel). They had six sons, Roger, Gilbert, Walter, Richard [Abbot of Ely], Robert, and Godfrey, and four daughters, Rohese, Alice (wife of Walter Tirel), and Avice. He was among those consulted about the proposed invasion of England in the assembly at Bonneville-sur-Touques in 1066, but there is no direct evidence of his personal participation at Hastings or in the campaign. Nevertheless, he was a significant figure soon afterwards and occurs as a witness of royal charters throughout the reign of King William the Conqueror. He was rewarded with no fewer than 176 lordships, which consisted of two concentrations of lands, one in Kent and Surrey, and the other in Suffolk and Essex. His holdings at Tonbridge, Kent and Clare, Suffolk were both given motte and bailey castles. During the king's absence, he served as Joint Chief Justiciar. He played a leading role in suppressing the rebellion of Roger de Breteuil, Earl of Hereford and Ralph de Gael in 1075 or 1076. In 1078 or 1079 he and his wife, Rohese, sent to Bec Abbey for a colony of monks to replenish the vacant convent at Neotsbury, Huntingdonshire. Sometime before 1086 he granted the monks of Bec his manors of Tooting and Streatham, and land in Horsham (in Walton-on-Thames), all in Surrey. Sometime before 1090 he confirmed to the monks of Bec two thirds of his demesne tithes and one villain in Standon, Hertfordshire; and two thirds of his demesne tithes in Blechingley, Chivington, Woodmansteme, Tolworth, Chipstead, Betchworth, and Walton Leigh, Surrey and houses in Southwark, Surrey and Tonbridge, Kent. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT died about 1090, and was buried at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. His widow, Rohese, was still living in 1113, when she granted the whole of her manor of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire to St. Neot's Priory, Huntingdonshire.
  Gorham Hist. & Antiqs. of Eynesbury & St. Neot's (1820): 61-63, 68-69, 184. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1846): 462-463; 5 (1846): 269 (sub Tintern Abbey - Genealogia Fundatoris: "Walterum de Giffard primogenitum, qui alium Walterum procreavit, et dictus fait Walterius Giffard secundus. Rohesia una sororum Walteri (duas plures enim habuit) conjuncta in matrimonio Ricardo filio comitis Gisleberti, qui in re militari, tempore Conquestoris omnes sin temporis magnates præcessit. Prædicta Rohesia supervixit et renupta Eudoni, dapifer Regis Normanniæ, qui construxit castrum Colecestriæ, cum coenobio, in honore sancti Johannis, ubi sepultus fuit, cum conjuge sua, tempore Henrici primi. Margareta film eorum nupta fuit Willielmo de Mandevill, et fuit mater Gaufridi filii comitis Essexiæ et jure matris, Normanniæ dapifer. Prædictus Ricardus apud sanctum Neotum jacet sepultus. Huic rex Willielmus concessit baroniam de Clare, villam verò cum castello de Tunbridge, de archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, pro aliis terris in Normannia, perquisivit in escambium."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules 8 (1871): 269 (Ex Historia Willelmi Gemetic [William de Jumièges]: "His Gislebertus genuit Richardum strenuissimum militem; qui tam ipse, quàm filii ejus, Gislebertus, Rogerius, Walterius, Rodbertus."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 58 (Ex Willelmi Calculi, Gemeticensis Monachi, Historia Normannorum [William de Jumièges]: "Genuit autem idem Galterius secundum Galterium Giffardum et plures filias, quarum una nomine Rohais nupsit Richardo fino Comitis Gisleberti."). Round Feudal England (1895): 468-479. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Porée Hist. de L’Abbaye de Bec 1 (1901): 454. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. Marx ed. Gesta Normannorum Ducum (1914): 325-326 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Ricardus autem frater Balduini, genuit ex Rohais quatuor filios, Gislebertum, Rogerium, Walterium, Robertum, et duas filias; altera quarum matrimonio copulata est Rodulfo de Felgeriis, natique sunt ex ea Fransvalo, Henricus, Robertus Giffardus. Gislebertus autem, qui illam terram, quam pater comm habuerat in Anglia, post ipsum adeptus est; Rogerius enim, frater ejus, terram de Normannia optinuit."). C.P. 3 (1915): 242 (sub Clare). Douglas Feudal Docs. from Bury St. Edmunds (1932): 152-153. Douglas Domesday Monachorum of Christ Church, Canterbury (1944). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Dec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 21-22 (charters of Richard Fitz Gilbert lord of Clare dated ante 1090 and ante 1086). Paget (1957) 130:2. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 34-35. Fauroux Recueil des Actes des Ducs de Normandie de 911 à 1066 (1961). Blake Liber Eliensis (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 92) (1962). Anglo-Norman Studies 3 (1980): 119-141. Arch. Cantiana 96 (1980): 119-131. Jour Ecclesiastical Hist. 32 (1981): 427-437. Barlow William Rufus (1983). Hollister Monarchs, Magnates, & Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World (1986). Brown Anglo-Norman Studies 11 (1989): 261-278. Blair Early Medieval Surrey (1991). Duby Rural Economy & Country Life in the Medieval West (1998): 429-430. Van Houts Memory & Gender in Medieval Europe: 900-1200 (1999): 156-157. Keats-Rohan Domesday People 1 (1999): 413, 456-457. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004) 316 (Clare ped.).
  Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by Rohese Giffard:
  i. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD [see next].
  ii. ROBERT FITZ RICHARD, of Little Dunmow, Essex, married MAUD DE SENLIS [see FITZ WALTER 4]
  iii. ROHESE (or ROSE) FITZ RICHARD, married EUDES THE STEWARD (or EUDES FITZ HUB) of Colchester, Essex [see SAY 2].
  iv. AVICE FITZ RICHARD, married RAOUL [I] DE FOUGÈRES, seigneur of Fougères [see FOUGÈRES 2].”
  
  List of Devonshire landholders in chief, from Domesday Book, first page of King's holdings
  HIC ANNOTANTUR TENENTES TERRAS IN DEVENESCIRE ("Here are noted (those) holding lands in Devonshire"). There are 53 entries, including the first entry for the king himself:
  I Rex Willelmus
  II Ep(iscopu
  
  === a monk and last abbot of Ely. ===
  a monk and last abbot of Ely.
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, of Bienfaite and Orbec, Normandy, lord of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, Standon, Hertfordshire, Blechingley, Surrey, etc., son of Gilbert Fitz Godfrey, Count of Brionne, born about 1030-35. He married ROHESE (or ROHAIS, ROHAID, ROAXIDIS) GIFFARD, daughter of Walter Giffard, of Longueville-sur-Scie (Seine-Maritime), Normandy, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Gerard Flaitel (or Fleitel). They had six sons, Roger, Gilbert, Walter, Richard [Abbot of Ely], Robert, and Godfrey, and four daughters, Rohese, Alice (wife of Walter Tirel), and Avice. He was among those consulted about the proposed invasion of England in the assembly at Bonneville-sur-Touques in 1066, but there is no direct evidence of his personal participation at Hastings or in the campaign. Nevertheless, he was a significant figure soon afterwards and occurs as a witness of royal charters throughout the reign of King William the Conqueror. He was rewarded with no fewer than 176 lordships, which consisted of two concentrations of lands, one in Kent and Surrey, and the other in Suffolk and Essex. His holdings at Tonbridge, Kent and Clare, Suffolk were both given motte and bailey castles. During the king's absence, he served as Joint Chief Justiciar. He played a leading role in suppressing the rebellion of Roger de Breteuil, Earl of Hereford and Ralph de Gael in 1075 or 1076. In 1078 or 1079 he and his wife, Rohese, sent to Bec Abbey for a colony of monks to replenish the vacant convent at Neotsbury, Huntingdonshire. Sometime before 1086 he granted the monks of Bec his manors of Tooting and Streatham, and land in Horsham (in Walton-on-Thames), all in Surrey. Sometime before 1090 he confirmed to the monks of Bec two thirds of his demesne tithes and one villain in Standon, Hertfordshire; and two thirds of his demesne tithes in Blechingley, Chivington, Woodmansteme, Tolworth, Chipstead, Betchworth, and Walton Leigh, Surrey and houses in Southwark, Surrey and Tonbridge, Kent. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT died about 1090, and was buried at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. His widow, Rohese, was still living in 1113, when she granted the whole of her manor of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire to St. Neot's Priory, Huntingdonshire.
  Gorham Hist. & Antiqs. of Eynesbury & St. Neot's (1820): 61-63, 68-69, 184. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1846): 462-463; 5 (1846): 269 (sub Tintern Abbey - Genealogia Fundatoris: "Walterum de Giffard primogenitum, qui alium Walterum procreavit, et dictus fait Walterius Giffard secundus. Rohesia una sororum Walteri (duas plures enim habuit) conjuncta in matrimonio Ricardo filio comitis Gisleberti, qui in re militari, tempore Conquestoris omnes sin temporis magnates præcessit. Prædicta Rohesia supervixit et renupta Eudoni, dapifer Regis Normanniæ, qui construxit castrum Colecestriæ, cum coenobio, in honore sancti Johannis, ubi sepultus fuit, cum conjuge sua, tempore Henrici primi. Margareta film eorum nupta fuit Willielmo de Mandevill, et fuit mater Gaufridi filii comitis Essexiæ et jure matris, Normanniæ dapifer. Prædictus Ricardus apud sanctum Neotum jacet sepultus. Huic rex Willielmus concessit baroniam de Clare, villam verò cum castello de Tunbridge, de archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, pro aliis terris in Normannia, perquisivit in escambium."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules 8 (1871): 269 (Ex Historia Willelmi Gemetic [William de Jumièges]: "His Gislebertus genuit Richardum strenuissimum militem; qui tam ipse, quàm filii ejus, Gislebertus, Rogerius, Walterius, Rodbertus."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 58 (Ex Willelmi Calculi, Gemeticensis Monachi, Historia Normannorum [William de Jumièges]: "Genuit autem idem Galterius secundum Galterium Giffardum et plures filias, quarum una nomine Rohais nupsit Richardo fino Comitis Gisleberti."). Round Feudal England (1895): 468-479. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Porée Hist. de L’Abbaye de Bec 1 (1901): 454. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. Marx ed. Gesta Normannorum Ducum (1914): 325-326 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Ricardus autem frater Balduini, genuit ex Rohais quatuor filios, Gislebertum, Rogerium, Walterium, Robertum, et duas filias; altera quarum matrimonio copulata est Rodulfo de Felgeriis, natique sunt ex ea Fransvalo, Henricus, Robertus Giffardus. Gislebertus autem, qui illam terram, quam pater comm habuerat in Anglia, post ipsum adeptus est; Rogerius enim, frater ejus, terram de Normannia optinuit."). C.P. 3 (1915): 242 (sub Clare). Douglas Feudal Docs. from Bury St. Edmunds (1932): 152-153. Douglas Domesday Monachorum of Christ Church, Canterbury (1944). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Dec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 21-22 (charters of Richard Fitz Gilbert lord of Clare dated ante 1090 and ante 1086). Paget (1957) 130:2. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 34-35. Fauroux Recueil des Actes des Ducs de Normandie de 911 à 1066 (1961). Blake Liber Eliensis (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 92) (1962). Anglo-Norman Studies 3 (1980): 119-141. Arch. Cantiana 96 (1980): 119-131. Jour Ecclesiastical Hist. 32 (1981): 427-437. Barlow William Rufus (1983). Hollister Monarchs, Magnates, & Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World (1986). Brown Anglo-Norman Studies 11 (1989): 261-278. Blair Early Medieval Surrey (1991). Duby Rural Economy & Country Life in the Medieval West (1998): 429-430. Van Houts Memory & Gender in Medieval Europe: 900-1200 (1999): 156-157. Keats-Rohan Domesday People 1 (1999): 413, 456-457. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004) 316 (Clare ped.).
  Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by Rohese Giffard:
  i. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD [see next].
  ii. ROBERT FITZ RICHARD, of Little Dunmow, Essex, married MAUD DE SENLIS [see FITZ WALTER 4]
  iii. ROHESE (or ROSE) FITZ RICHARD, married EUDES THE STEWARD (or EUDES FITZ HUB) of Colchester, Essex [see SAY 2].
  iv. AVICE FITZ RICHARD, married RAOUL [I] DE FOUGÈRES, seigneur of Fougères [see FOUGÈRES 2].”

1. William FitzRichard de Clare, b. ABT 1084 in Cardinham, Bodmin, Cornwall, England     d. ABT 1130 in Cardinham, Bodmin, Cornwall, England

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