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Roesia Clare
- Preferred Name: Roesia Clare[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- Alternate Name: Rohese FitzGilbert de Clare
- Gender: F
- Death: 1175 in England
- Burial: in St. Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales at LATI: N1.8175 LONG: E2.7293
- FSID: LYBY-1W3
- Birth: ABT 1124 in Tonbridge, Kent, England at LATI: N1.1694 LONG: E0.3167
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
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Rohese de Clare
Birthdate: circa 1120
Birthplace: Tunbridge (Tonbridge), Kent, England
Death: 1175 (50-59)
England
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Richard FitzGilbert, Lord of Clare and
Alice de Gurnon, of Chester
Wife of Gilbert de Gaunt, 1st Earl of Lincoln and
Robert FitzRobert, Sewer of William Percy
Mother of
Gilbert de Gaunt;
Alice de Gaunt, Countess of Northampton;
Gunnora de Gant;
Rohese FitzRobert and
Margaret FitzRobert
Sister of Roger "the Good" de Clare, Earl of Hertford; Lucy de Clare; Mable de Clare; Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, Earl of Hertford; Adeliza (Alice) de Clare, Lady of Tunbridge; Robert FitzRichard; Richard Fitzrichard De Clare and Godfrey FitzRichard de Clare « less
Half sister of Roger de Cundy, Lord of Coventry and Isabel de Condet
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WALTER DE GANT (or GAUNT), of Folkingham and Aisthorpe, Lincolnshire, Stanton (in Fen Stanton), Huntingdonshire, Rufford and Eakring, Nottinghamshire, Burley, Rutland, etc., son and heir, of age before 1113 or 1114. He married before 1120 MAUD OF BRITTANY, daughter of Stephen (or Etienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond, by his wife, Hawise [see RICHMOND 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagm include the manor of Swaledale, Yorkshire. They had six sons, Gilbert [Earl of Lincoln], Robert, Philip, Baldwin [Canon of Bridlington], Geoffrey, and possibly Walter [Canon of Oseney, Abbot of Waltham], and three daughters, Alice, Agnes, and (wife of William Fitz Walter). He founded Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire in 1113 or 1114. He confirmed his father's gift to Bardney Abbey, Lincolnshire in 1115. He was a member of the council of King Henry I in 1121 or 1122 and Sept. 1131. He was present at the Easter court of King Stephen in 1136. He was a commander at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. WALTER DE GANT died as a monk at Bardney Abbey, Yorkshire in 1139. ...
Children of Walter de Gant, by Maud of Brittany:
i. GILBERT DE GANT, of Folkingham, Lincolnshire, Stanton (in Fen Stanton), Huntingdonshire, Burley, Rutland, etc., son and heir, born at Bridlington about 1120. In the period, 1139-1149, he confirmed his father's gift of land to Hausgot de Eakring. He fought on the side of King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in Feb. 1140/1, where he was taken prisoner by Ranulph, Earl of Chester. He married ROHESE DE CLARE, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert, of Clare, Suffolk, by Alice, daughter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester [see CLARE 3 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alice. In 1147 he claimed the honour of Pontefract against Henry de Lacy, and, in the fighting which ensued, Pontefract Priory was burned down and Gilbert was excommunicated. He was created Earl of Lincoln c.1148. About 1148, as Earl of Lincoln, he founded Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire. In the period, 1148-53, he granted Rufford Abbey all the land which Ralph son of Rainger held of him in Cratela, Nottinghamshire less a bovate, in exchange for a carucate of land in Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire. In the period, 1148-66, his wife, Rohese confirmed to the monks of Kirkstead the donation of Ralph Fitz Gilbert of land at Scampton, Lincolnshire which her husband, Earl Gilbert, gave her in dower. In the period, c.1148-56, he gave four carucates of land in Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire to William Basset. In the period, 1148-56, he granted Herbert Fitz Adelard land at Fenton and Walcot, Lincolnshire. In the period, 1148-56, he granted Tero' Fitz Malger half of Speeton, Yorkshire. He was a benefactor to Bardney, Bridlington, Kirkstead, Rievaulx, Sempingham, and Thornton. He also gave the monks of Biham a better site for their abbey at Vaudey in Edenham, Lincolnshire. GILBERT DE GANT, Earl of Lincoln, died in 1156, requesting his burial at Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire. In the period, 1156-63, his widow, Rohese, granted land in Cradey in free alms to Rufford Priory, except for the service due to her from Hugh Fitz Ralph. She married (2nd) before 1163 ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Ilkley, Yorkshire, South Elkington, Lincolnshire, etc., Steward to William de Percy, son of Robert Fitz Fulk, of Ilkley, Yorkshire, South Elkington, Lincolnshire, etc., Steward to William de Percy, by Alice, daughter of Herbert de Saint Quintin. They had two daughters, Margaret (wife of William de Kyme) and Rohese (or Rose). About 1148 he granted Sallay Abbey, Yorkshire two bovates in Ilkley, Yorkshire and two assarts. At an unknown date, he and his wife, Countess Rohese, granted to Thomas Fitz Wigot all his father's lands in Scampton, Lincolnshire. Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yvery 2 (1742): 50-58. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 197-228 ("Gilbert de Gaunt, by deed confirmed to the said monks, 40 acres of land at Gudlacistovia in Swaffham], which Earl Alan his uncle had granted them; this Gilbert de Gaunt was Earl of Lincoln."). Dugdale Monasticon Auglicanum 1 (1817): 630-632; 6(1) (1830): 286 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln), 288. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 79-80. Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 301-320. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Rievalle (Surtees Soc. 83) (1889): 47 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated pre-1148), 47-48 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 122-123. Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480-482, 520-521 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant and Baldwin de Gant), 521-522 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1147-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant and Baldwin de Gant). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #48. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [11857 (Pipe Roll Soc. 35) (1913): 5 ([Elizabeth] widow of Robert Fitz Hugh de Tateshale, styled "niece of Earl Gilbert de Gant" Ineptis Comitis Gileberti de Ganti), 9 ([Elizabeth] widow of Robert Fitz Hugh styled "daughter of William Fitz Walter of Welle" [filia Willelmi filii Waken de Welle]). VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 429 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated c.1139-48; charter witnessed by his brothers, Geoffrey, Robert, and Baldwin), 429-430 (notification by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1150-56), 432-436, 449-50 (notification by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1158-53), 450 451 (confirmation charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-53), 454-455 (confirmation charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1155-56; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert de Gant), 469-470 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1142-47), 470-471 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1147), 471 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 471 (notification by Gilbert Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 471-472 (grant by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56), 493-494 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln dated 1148-56). Stenton Documents illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 262 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1147-53). Stenton Transcripts of Charters reL to the Gilbertine Houses of Sixle, Ormsly, Catley, Bullington, and Alvingham (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 18) (1922): 42, 98. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 27) (1931): 41-45; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 28) (1933): 9-10. C.P. 7 (1929): 672-673 (sub Lincoln); 9 (1936): 369-372. McNulty Chartulary of the Cistercian Abby of St. Mary of Sallay in Craven 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 90) (1934): 78-79 (charter of Robert, Steward of William de Percy, dated c.1148). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 112-119. Yorkshire Deeds 9 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 111) (1948): 162 (charter of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln dated c.1148-56; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Gant, Robert de Gant, and Baldwin de Gant). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 204-205 (charter of Gilbert de Gant dated c.1148-56). Paget (1957) 130:5. Davis King Stephen (1967): 138 ("Gilbert de Gant is usually stated to have been created earl of Lincoln c.1147-8, but in a charter which he gave to Bardney Abbey and addressed to Robert Bishop of Lincoln (elected 13 December, consecrated 19 December 1148), he still styles himself plain Gilbertus de Gaunt (B.M., Cotton MS, Vespasian E. xx, f. 54). In royal charters he may sometimes be confused with two other Earl Gilberts, of Pembroke and Hertford, but is is referred to as Gilbertus comes Lincolnie in a writ of Stephen for William de Huntingfield (Reg. iii. 123,414). It may be presumed that he was appointed during, or as a result of, Stephen's successful northern campaign in 1149."). Holdsworth Rufford Charters (Thoroton Soc. Rec. Ser. 30) (1974): 392 (Countess Rohese styled "sister of Earl Roger de Clare" [soror comitis Rogeri de Clara]), 408. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 17: Coventry & Lichfield 1183-1208 (1998): 140-141. Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (2002): 164-165. Katharine Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 472. Tanner Families, Friends, & Allies: Boulogne & Politics in Northern France & England (2004): 197, 206. Wilkinson Women in 13th Cent. Lincolnshire (2007): 8 ("During her marriage to Gilbert de Gant, earl of Lincoln (d. 1156) ... Rohese de Clare employed a portrait seal which bore the legent 'SIGILLUM ROHAIS UXORIS GILLEBERTI DE GANT.' When Gilbert died, Rohese married a new husband of less exalted rank. She thereafter adopted a new seal which displayed eight heraldic chevrons associated with her natal family of Clare and bore a new legent, `SIGILLUM ROHESIE COMITISSE LINCOLNIE,' celebrating the title acquired through her first marriage.").
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=== Rohesia de Monmouth ===
Rohesia de Monmouth
Also Known As:
"Rohese", "Roysya"
Birthdate:
circa 1130 (51)
Birthplace:
Clare, Suffolk, England
Death:
circa 1181 (43-59)
Holy Trinity Church,London,Middlesex,England
Place of Burial:
Dublin, Ireland
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Baderon Fitzwilliam, Baron of Monmouth and Rohesia FitzGilbert de Clare
Wife of Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, 4th Baron Lacy
Mother of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster; Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath; daughter of Hugh de Lacy; Elaine (Elena) de Lacy; Alice de Lacy and 5 others
Sister of James FitzBaderon, of Monmouth; Gilbert FitzBaderon, Lord of Monmouth; Walter de Huntley and Robert (Roaps) FitzBaderon
Half sister of Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair; Rose Ingen Ní Conchobair; Nuala O'Connor and Aedh mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair
=== Rohese de Clare (bef. 1166) was a member ===
Rohese de Clare (bef. 1166) was a member of the wealthy and powerful de Clare family and a strong patron of Monmouth Priory.
Rohese was a daughter of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare and Adeliza de Clermont. In c. 1130, she married Baderon fitzWilliam of Monmouth. Her father being already dead by that date, the wedding was celebrated at Striguil Castle (Chepstow), stronghold of her brother Gilbert fitzGilbert de Clare, who gave the bride away.
Rohese is most notable for her generosity to Monmouth Priory beginning soon after her marriage. As a married woman she acted through her husband, who records in the charter that the gifts were made "by myself and my wife, at her request ... at the Feast of All Saints on the same day on which she was married to me at Striguil". The gift was put into effect "on the Feast of St. Martin next following" at a ceremony at Monmouth attended by Rohese's brothers Walter and Gilbert and by Gilbert's wife Isabel de Beaumont (a former mistress of Henry I). The gift consisted of a tithe of the regular revenues of the town of Monmouth, to be paid in installments three times each year. In 1144 Rohese and Baderon made further donations to Monmouth Priory.
Together Rohese and Baderon had:
1. Gilbert; who succeeded his father as lord of Monmouth.
2. Rohese, who married Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath about 1155.
3. Payn (fl. 1144).
4. Robert (fl. 1144)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_de_Clare
=== Information recieved from John Luddy Bur ===
Information recieved from John Luddy Burke Jr.
=== SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO.68) P.41;
=== Find a grave #178569141 ===
Find a grave #178569141
=== Source: Please cite original sources. ===
Source: Please cite original sources.
Compiled by: J. K. Loren
=== Dau. of Gilbert Fitz Richard of Clare an ===
Dau. of Gilbert Fitz Richard of Clare and Adeliza de Clermont; m.Badeion de Monmouth; mother of Rohese who m. Hugh de Lacy. [AncestralRoots, p. 153]
From: Cristopher Nash (c AT windsong.u-net.com)
Subject: Baderon & Roese de Monmouth
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2002-08-13 18:21:53 PST
'W E Wightman,The Lacy Family (1966), usually reasonable, gave Roese[often 'Rose'] de Monmouth, wife of Hugh II de Lacy, as widow ofBaderon de Monmouth (e.g. p. 206, citing Gilbert, Reg. Abbey St.Thos., Dublin, pp 13, 420).
Keats-Rohan, citing Dugdale and H. Guillotel*, has Roese as thedaughter of Baderon (s. of William fitz Baderon, s. of Baderon, s. ofCaradoc de La Boussac [near Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine]) and as da. ofRoesia de Clare; DD, 591-2. (The early generations of this sequenceare generally accepted in Breton histories.) The latter affiliationmatches that given by Altschul and others (incl Weis AR7), many ofwhom present Roese's mother as Rohese de Clare, da. of Gilbert fitzRichard de Clare and Adeliza de Clermont.
Are we agreed that Wightman's positively in error? It would be good toknow if anyone's seen the Reg. Abbey St. Thos., which Keats-Rohan andthe others appear not to have consulted.'
Preferred Parents:
Father: Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, b. ABT 1090 in Herefordshire, England d. APR 1136 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Mother: Adeliza Meschines, b. 1099 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France d. AFT 1152 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Family 1: Robert FitzRobert, b. ABT 1120 in England d. 1175
- m. ABT 1144 in Yorkshire, England
- m. ABT 1160 in England
- Rohaise FitzRobert, b. 1154 in Yorkshire, England d. AFT 1228
Family 2: Baderon FitzWilliam, b. ABT 1110 in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales d. ABT 1176 in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
- m. 1130 in Striguil Castle, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
- Rohese de Monmouth, b. ABT 1135 in Monmouth, Wales d. 1180 in Meath, Leinster, Ireland
Family 3: Gilbert de Gaunt 1st Earl of Lincoln, b. 1126 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England d. 1156 in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England
- m. ABT 1140 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
- Alice de Gaunt, b. ABT 1140 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England d. 1185 in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Rohese de Clare in Wikipedia
Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_de_Clare
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_de_Clare;
Note: Rohese de Clare (bef. 1166) was a member of the wealthy and powerful de Clare family and a strong patron of Monmouth Priory. Rohese was a daughter of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare and Adeliza de Clermont. In c. 1130, she married Baderon fitzWilliam of Monmouth. The wedding was celebrated at Striguil Castle (Chepstow), stronghold of her brother Gilbert fitzGilbert de Clare, who gave the bride away.
Together Rohese and Baderon had:
1. Gilbert; who succeeded his father as lord of Monmouth.
2. Rohese, who married Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath about 1155.[7]
3. Payn (fl. 1144).[6]
4. Robert (fl. 1144),[6]
- Title: Rohese de Clare, Find a Grave
Author: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178569141/rohese-de_clare link from spouse
Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178569141/rohese-de_clare;
Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178569141/rohese-de_clare
Rohese de Clare
BIRTH 1110 Tonbridge and Malling Borough, Kent, England
DEATH unknown Wales
BURIAL St Mary's Priory Churchyard
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
MEMORIAL ID 178569141
Rohese was a daughter of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare and Adeliza de Clermont. In c. 1130, she married Baderon fitzWilliam of Monmouth. Her father being already dead by that date, the wedding was celebrated at Striguil Castle (Chepstow), stronghold of her brother Gilbert fitzGilbert de Clare, who gave the bride away.
- Title: Gilbert de Clare & Clermont in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QT-PRH?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-FQZ%3A352086301%2C352529301
Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QT-PRH?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-FQZ%3A352086301%2C352529301 : 20 May 2014), D > Decker, Frank C. (1883) - Decson, John (1563) > image 397 of 1183; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QT-PRH;
Note: Gilbert de Clare (1054-1117) married Adeliza de Clermont and had children according to research before 1943
Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research with some variations due to available sources
- Title: Rohese de Clare - Medlands
Author: iv) ROHESE de Clare (-after 1185). The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records property held by “Roesia de Bussei…filia Baldewini filii Gilberti, uxor Willelmi de Bussei”, adding that she has two daughters “primogenitam habet Johannes de Builli et alteram Hugo Wake”[1575]. The primary source which confirms her second marriage has not yet been identified. m firstly WILLIAM de Bussy of Old Wardon, son of ---. m secondly BALDWIN Buelot, son of ---.
Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntac.htm#GilbertFitzRichardClaredied1117;
- Title: Rohese de Boulogne, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TG4Q : 11 June 2020), Rohese de Boulogne, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TG4Q;
- Title: Book - Early Yorkshire Charters Vol 2
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