Rohese Giffard de Longueville

• Preferred Name: Rohese Giffard de Longueville^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: De Clare
  
• Gender: F
  
• Birth: 13 APR 1034 in Longueville, Calvados, Normandy, France at LATI: N9.3412 LONG: E0.9646
  
• Nickname:
  
• Death: 7 JAN 1113 in Angleterre, Suffolk, England at LATI: N2.2751 LONG: E0.0653
  
• Burial: AFT 7 JAN 1113 in Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.8889 LONG: E0.9024 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Alt.+Death: AFT 1133 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Comtesse de Giffard with note: French or English pick one, not both
  
• Title+Of+Nobility: in Longueville, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France at LATI: N4.46 LONG: E0.2181 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• PROP: in Clare, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.0792 LONG: E0.5813 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lady Of Longueville in Longueville, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France at LATI: N4.46 LONG: E0.2181
  
• FSID: 2MYM-NS1
  
• Notes:

  === 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).
  
  Early life
  Rohese was the daughter of Walter Giffard. Her maternal grandfather was Gerard Fleitel.[3] Walter Giffard was the lord of Longueville-sur-Scie in Upper Normandy.[2]
  
  Marriage and children
  Rohese was the wife of Richard fitz Gilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne,[3] before 1066. After the Norman Conquest of England, Richard was a leading landowner in England.[2] Domesday Book records him as the eighth-richest landowner in England, with lands centered on two locations—lands in Kent and Surrey grouped around Tonbridge and lands in Essex and Suffolk grouped around Clare.[2] Their children were Roger, Gilbert, Walter, Robert, Richard,[4] Godfrey,[2] Rohais,[a] and Adelisa.[4]
  
  Roger received the Norman lands after Richard fitz Gilbert's death, Gilbert received his father's English lands, Walter was given a Welsh lordship by King Henry I of England, and Robert was given lands around London by King Henry I.[2] Richard became a monk at Bec Abbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey.[4] The last son, Godfrey, is known only from his burial at Clare.[2] Rohais married Eudo Dapifer and Adelisa married Walter Tirel.[4] A daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert, who is unnamed, is said to have married Ralph de Fougères, but it is not known whether this refers to another marriage for either Rohais or Adelisa or if this is a third daughter. Some of the children were born before 1066, as a gift to Jumièges Abbey in 1066 mentions the souls of their children.[2]
  
  Landowner, death, and legacy
  Rohese occurs in Domesday Book (done in 1086) as a landowner in her own right,[3] one of few women mentioned in that survey.[5] It is not known why she held these lands independently of her husband, as the previous landholders Robert son of Wimac and Archbishop Stigand have no obvious relationship with her. They may have been her dower lands although this is not mentioned in Domesday.[6] Domesday often does not mention dower or other conditions of female landholding, due to its emphasis on documenting royal rights.[5]
  
  Richard fitz Gilbert died between 1085 and 1087, as his son Gilbert witnesses a charter of King William II of England in 1087. Rohese survived him and was still alive in 1113, when she gave a gift to St Neot's Priory which had been founded as a dependent priory of Bec Abbey in Normandy on Rohese's own manor of Eynesbury.[2] Rohese's descendants eventually were the heirs to the lands held by her father,[7] receiving half the honour of Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189–1199),[1] after the lands and inheritance were originally returned to Richard's father, King Henry II of England (r. 1154–1189).[8]
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_Giffard
  
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  “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,
  1. Roger,
  2. Gilbert,
  3. Walter,
  4. Richard [Abbot of Ely],
  5. Robert, and
  6. Godfrey,
  and four daughters,
  7. Rohese,
  8. Alice (wife of Walter Tirel), and
  9. 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.
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  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.
  
  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].”
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMAN%20NOBILITY.htm#RoheseGiffardMRichardFitzGilbert as of 1/18/2016
  
  ROHESE Giffard (-after 1113, bur [Colchester]). Guillaume de Jumièges names "Galteri
  
  === Birthdate: April 13, 1034 ===
  Birthdate: April 13, 1034
  Birthplace: Longueville, Normandy, France
  Death: Died 1113 in Clare, Angleterre, Suffolk, England
  Immediate Family:
  Daughter of Gautier Giffard I, Seigneur de Longueville and Ermengarde Agnes Flaitel
  Wife of Richard FitzGilbert de Bienfaite, Lord of Clare and of Tonbridge
  Mother of Ronais De Tellieres; Walter Fitzrichard; Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke; Robert FitzRichard de Clare; Isabel Fitz Gilbert De Clare; Richard FitzRichard de Clare, Abbot of Ely; Adeliza de Clare, de Tunbridge; Avice De Fougères, De Toeni; William Fitz Richard De Clare; Elizabeth de Clare; Cecile de Clare; Daughter de Tonebruge; Godfrey Fitzrichard de Clare; Miss (Fitzgilbert) de Clare; Ronais Fitzgilbert; Roger Fitzrichard; Rohese FitzRichard de Clare; Elise de Brionne and Cecile De Clare -- Per Projects/Medlands/NormanNobility
  
  === 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].”
  
  === Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose, or Rohai ===
  Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose, or Rohais; died after 1113) was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century.
  Early life
  Giffard was the daughter of Walter Giffard. Her maternal grandfather was Gerard Fleitel. Walter Giffard was the lord of Longueville-sur-Scie in upper Normandy.
  
  Marriage
  Giffard was the wife of Richard fitzGilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne. Domesday Book records him as the eighth richest landowner in England, with lands centered on two locations – lands in Kent and Surrey grouped around Tonbridge and lands in Essex and Suffolk grouped around Clare.
  Their children were
  1. Roger,
  2. Gilbert,
  3. Walter,
  4. Robert,
  5. Richard,
  6. Godfrey,
  7. Rohese (or Rohais), and
  8. Adelisa.
  
  Roger received the Norman lands after Richard fitzGilbert's death, Gilbert received his father's English lands, Walter was given a Welsh lordship by King Henry I of England, and Robert was given lands around London by King Henry I. Richard became a monk at Bec Abbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey. The last son, Godfrey, is known only from his burial at Clare. Rohais married Eudo Dapifer and Adelisa married Walter Tirel.
  A daughter of Richard, who is unnamed, is said to have married Ralph de Fougères, but it is not known whether this refers to another marriage for either Rohais or Adelisa or if this is a third daughter. Some of the children were born before 1066, as a gift to Jumièges Abbey in 1066 mentions the souls of their children.
  
  Landowner
  Giffard occurs in Domesday Book as a landowner in her own right. Richard died between 1085 and 1087, as his son Gilbert witnesses a charter of King William II of England in that year. Rohese survived him and was still alive in 1113, when she gave a gift to St Neot's Priory which had been founded as a dependent priory of Bec on Rohese's own manor of Eynesbury. Rohese's descendants eventually were the heirs to the lands held by her father, receiving half the honour of Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189–1199).
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_Giffard
  
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  “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,
  1. Roger,
  2. Gilbert,
  3. Walter,
  4. Richard [Abbot of Ely],
  5. Robert, and
  6. Godfrey,
  and four daughters,
  7. Rohese,
  8. Alice (wife of Walter Tirel), and
  9. 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.
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  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.
  
  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].”
  
  “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 Se

• Notes:

  Description: Clare Castle
  
  update
  Clare, Suffolk, England

• m. 1054 in St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England

1. Richard Fitz Richard de Clare, b. 1062 in Tonbridge, Kent, England     d. 1107 in St Neots, Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England

• m. 1055 in Brionne, Normandy, France

1. Richard Fitz Richard de Clare, b. 1062 in Tonbridge, Kent, England     d. 1107 in St Neots, Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England
2. Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, b. 21 SEP 1065 in Tunbridge Well, Kent, England     d. 17 NOV 1114 in Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, England
3. Basilie de Saint-Clair, b. ABT 1085 in , , France    
4. Rohese FitzRichard de Clare, b. ABT 1055 in Calvados, Haute-Normandie, France     d. 1121 in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, England
5. Robert FitzRichard Constable of Baynard Castle, b. ABT 1064 in Dunmow, Essex, England     d. 1136 in Little Dunmow, Essex, England

1. Title: Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and his wife Rohais Giffard in British History Online ~https://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/ [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: https://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/
   Publication: Name: https://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/;
   Note: Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and his wife Rohais Giffard in British History Online ~https://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/ [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and his wife Rohais Giffard in British History Online ~https://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/ [See document in the Memories section]
   
2. Title: Geni -
   Author: At above-referenced URL
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Rohese-Giffard-de-Longueville/6000000006125420277;
   Note: Various information about the individual and her family, including some life events and achievements.
   Page: It appears authentic on its face.
   
3. Title: Wikipedia -Rohese Giffard
   Author: Cokayne, George E. (1982) [1913]. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. III (Microprint ed.). Gloucester, UK: A. Sutton. ISBN 0-904387-82-8. Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-722-X. Mortimer, Richard (2004). "Clare, Richard de (1030x35–1087x90)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5445. Retrieved 7 January 2015. Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 931660.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_Giffard;
   Note: Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose,[1] or Rohais;[2] died after 1113) was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century. Early life Giffard was the daughter of Walter Giffard. Her maternal grandfather was Gerard Fleitel.[3] Walter Giffard was the lord of Longueville-sur-Scie in upper Normandy.[2] Marriage Giffard was the wife of Richard fitz Gilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne.[3] Domesday Book records him as the eighth-richest landowner in England, with lands centered on two locations—lands in Kent and Surrey grouped around Tonbridge and lands in Essex and Suffolk grouped around Clare.[2] Their children were Roger, Gilbert, Walter, Robert, Richard,[4] Godfrey,[2] Rohese (or Rohais), and Adelisa.[4] Roger received the Norman lands after Richard fitz Gilbert's death, Gilbert received his father's English lands, Walter was given a Welsh lordship by King Henry I of England, and Robert was given lands around London by King Henry I.[2] Richard became a monk at Bec Abbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey.[4] The last son, Godfrey, is known only from his burial at Clare.[2] Rohais married Eudo Dapifer and Adelisa married Walter Tirel.[4] A daughter of Richard, who is unnamed, is said to have married Ralph de Fougères, but it is not known whether this refers to another marriage for either Rohais or Adelisa or if this is a third daughter. Some of the children were born before 1066, as a gift to Jumièges Abbey in 1066 mentions the souls of their children.[2] Landowner Giffard occurs in Domesday Book as a landowner in her own right.[3] Richard died between 1085 and 1087, as his son Gilbert witnesses a charter of King William II of England in that year. Rohese survived him and was still alive in 1113, when she gave a gift to St Neot's Priory which had been founded as a dependent priory of Bec on Rohese's own manor of Eynesbury.[2] Rohese's descendants eventually were the heirs to the lands held by her father,[5] receiving half the honour of Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189–1199).[1]
   
4. Title: Find-a-Grave
   Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159273740/rohese-de_clare;
   Note: Rohese De Giffard De Clare Find-a-grave memorial record ID 159273740 BURIAL 1118 St. Neots Priory St Neots, Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England
   
5. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ROHESE Giffard (-after 1113, bur [Colchester])
   Author: [37] Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Duchesne, 1619), Liber VIII, XXXVII, p. 312. [38] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. III, Liber VIII, XIII, p. 344. [39] Domesday Translation, Hertfordshire, XLII, p. 393. [40] Dugdale Monasticon V, Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire III, p. 269.
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/normacre.htm#RoheseGiffardMRichardFitzGilbert;
   Note: ROHESE Giffard (-after 1113, bur [Colchester]). Guillaume de Jumièges names "Galterium Giffardum primum” as father of “secundum Galterium Giffardum et filias plures” of whom “una...Rohais” married “Richardo filio comitis Gisleberti.” Orderic Vitalis records that “Gisleberti comitis [filium] Ricardum” married “Roaldem Gualterii Gifardi filiam.” Domesday Book records “Rohais wife of Richard son of Gilbert” holding Standon in Braughing Hundred in Hertfordshire. According to the Genealogia Fundatoris of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, ”Rohesia” married secondly “Eudoni dapifero Regis Normanniæ” after the death of “Ricardo filio comitis Gisleberti” and that they were both buried “tempore Henrici primi” in “castrum Clecestriæ…cœnobio in honore sancti Johannis” which Eudo constructed. According to the Complete Peerage, this genealogy is “probably erroneous” but it does not explain the basis for the doubts. From a chronological point of view, the connection would be tight, assuming that the death date of Richard FitzGilbert is correctly estimated to [1090] and the birth of Rohese’s granddaughter by her alleged second marriage, Beatrix, is correctly assessed at [1105]. This supposed second parentage is disproved by sources quoted in the section dealing with Eudes de Rie. m [firstly] RICHARD FitzGilbert de Brionne, son of GILBERT de Brionne "Crespin" Comte d'Eu & his wife --- (before 1035-[1090], bur St Neots, Huntingdonshire). [Incorrect supposed second marriage: m secondly EUDES de Rie dapifer, son of HUBERT [I] de Rie & his wife ---(-1 Mar 1120, bur Colchester).]
   
6. Title: Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and family in Archeologia Cambrensis, Tintern Abbey, Pg. 350 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Archeologia Cambrensis, Tintern Abbey, Pg. 350
   Note: Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and family in Archeologia Cambrensis, Tintern Abbey, Pg. 350 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and family in Archeologia Cambrensis, Tintern Abbey, Pg. 350 [See document in the Memories section]