Rohese Giffard

• Preferred Name: Rohese Giffard
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: 1113 in Normandy, France at LATI: N8.928 LONG: E0.5326
  
• FSID: GKHJ-DRH
  
• Birth: 1062 in Normandy, France at LATI: N8.928 LONG: E0.5326
  
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  === Life Sketch ===
  Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose,[1] or Rohais;[2] died after 1113) was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century. The daughter of a Norman noble, she was the wife of another Norman noble, Richard fitzGilbert, who was one of the ten wealthiest landholders there after the Norman Conquest. Rohese is mentioned in Domesday Book as a landholder in her own right, something uncommon for women. She and Richard had a number of children, and she lived on past his death around 1086, until at least 1113 when she is recorded giving lands to a monastery. Her descendants eventually inherited her father's lands, although this did not occur until the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189–1199).

1. Roger de Clare, b. ABT 1080 in Devon, England     d. AFT SEP 1131