Richard FitzRoy

• Preferred Name: Richard FitzRoy^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Chilham; Lord of Chingford, Little Wyham & Great Wenden
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baron of Chilham
  
• Death: 24 JUN 1246 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.2333 LONG: E0.9667
  
• FSID: G91T-JGK
  
• Fact: with note: Description: Richard was the illegitimate son of King John of England
  
• Birth: 1193 in Hampshire, England at LATI: N1.0786 LONG: E1.317
  
• Burial: 1246 in Chilham, Kent, England at LATI: N1.2446 LONG: E0.9612
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Richard FitzRoy (c. 1190 – June 1246) (alias Richard de Chilham and Richard de Dover and Richard Fitzroy) was the illegitimate son of King John of England and was feudal baron of Chilham in Kent. His mother was unknown de warenne his father's cousin and a daughter of Hamelin de Warenne by his wife Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey. Other sources give his mother as a woamn called Suzanne.
  
  Richard served in his father's army as a captain during the baronial revolt. In 1216 he was made constable of Wallingford Castle. The following year he took a prominent part in a naval battle off the Kent coast.
  
  Richard had scutage for Poitou in 1214. By right of his wife he became Lord of Chingford, Little Wyham and Great Wenden, all in Essex, and Lesnes, Kent, and Lutton, Northamptonshire. However, in 1229 their manor of Chingford Earls was temporarily in the hands of a creditor, Robert de Winchester. In 1242 they leased the advowson of Chingford to William of York, Provost of Beverley.
  
  Before 11 May 1214, Richard married Rohese de Dover, daughter and heiress of Fulbert de Dover by his spouse Isabel, daughter of William Briwere.
  Their children were:
  1. Richard de Dover, feudal baron of Chilham, married Matilda, 6th Countess of Angus
  2. Isabella, married 1247 Sir Maurice de Berkeley of Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
  3. Lorette (d.bef.1265), married 1248 Sir William Marmion, 2nd Baron Marmion of Winteringham and of Tanfield, Yorkshire.
  
  Richard's widow remarried, between 1250 and 1253, William de Wilton (killed at the Battle of Lewes), a prominent justice. She died shortly before 11 February 1261, when there was a grant of her lands and heirs to the Queen, Eleanor of Provence. Rohese's heart was buried at Lesnes Abbey.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_FitzRoy
  http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#ElaM1RobertNewburnM2WilliamFitzwilliam
  
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  John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting
  
  === Only 3 Children!!!! ===
  According to multiple historical sources, Richard and Rohese had ONLY 3 children:
  Isabella, Lorette, Richard de Dover (feudal baron of Chilham, married Matilda, 6th Countess of Angus)
  
  Turner, G.J. (1929). "Notes for Richard fitz Roy". The Genealogist. XXII
  
  Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 2004, p. 48, ISBN 0-8063-1750-7
  
  Cassidy, Richard (2011). "Rose of Dover (d.1261), Richard of Chilham and an Inheritance in Kent" (PDF). Archaeologia Cantiana. 131.
  https://web.archive.org/web/20150913154940/http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/131-2011/Arch%20Cant%20131-14.pdf
  
  === {{British Isles 742-1499}} ===
  {{British Isles 742-1499}}
  
  == Biography ==Sir Richard de Dover, Lord Chilham was born at Chilham, Kent, England,the son of Sir Richard FitzRoy and Rohese of Dover.Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 48-49.Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vo. I, p. 130-131.DouglasRichardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 184-185.
  
  === Marriage & Children ===:He married Maud of Angus, daughter of Malcolm, Earl of Angus & Caithness and Mary de Berkeley, between 13 March 1245 and 2 December 1247. They had 1 son & 1 daughter:Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 49.Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 409.Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vo. I, p. 132-133.Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 185-186.Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 12.Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 441-442.
  
  # Richard# Isabel, wife of David de Strathbogie, 8th Earl of Atholl, & of Sir Alexander de Balliol, Chamberlain of Scotland
  
  === Death ===:Sir Richard de Dover, Lord Chilham died circa 26 September 1247.
  
  == Sources ==
  
  
  See also:
  *[http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p405.htm#i12163 Marlyn Lewis]
  
  *http://www.thepeerage.com/p10915.htm#i109150
  *[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3HPN-JSZ FamilySearch EuropeRoyal and Noble Houses Community Tree entry]
  
  === !Richard md Rohese de Dover ===
  !Richard md Rohese de Dover
  
  === ! (1) Also AFN 916JWT ===
  ! (1) Also AFN 916JWT

• m. ABT 1219 in Cornwall, England

1. Lorette de Dover, b. ABT 1228 in Winteringham, Lincolnshire, England     d. ABT 1275 in Winteringham, Lincolnshire, England
2. Isabella de Dover, b. 1223 in Lincolnshire, England     d. 7 JUL 1276 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
3. Richard De Chilham, b. ABT 1208 in Chilham, Kent, England     d. 13 AUG 1270 in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

1. Title: Family Tree
   Publication: Name: https://web.archive.org/web/20150913154940/http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/131-2011/Arch%20Cant%20131-14.pdf;
   
2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20Kings%201066-1603.htm#RichardFitzjohndied12451246;
   Note: King John had one illegitimate son by Mistress (1): 6. RICHARD FitzJohn [Fitzroy] (-[1245/46]). The Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester names "Richard fiz le rei…Ion" and "the erles daughter of Wareine" his mother[628]. King John granted "terram…Roes de Dover uxorem suam…castro illo de Chilleha" to "Ric filio nostro" by order dated 11 Jul 1214[629]. "William Briwere" was ordered to deliver to "Richard the king’s son all the lands which fell to Rose his wife hereditarily"[630]. He was a captain in King John's army during the baronial revolt. He fought the invasion of Louis de France in 1217[631]. Lord of Chilham, Kent, de iure uxoris. Henry III King of England granted exemptions to "Ricardo filio Regis" in respect of "castrum suum de Chileham" dated 21 Jun 1217[632]. Bracton notes a claim, dated 1227, by "Ricardus filius Reg et Roysia uxor eius" against "Robertum filium Walteri" for land "in Lesnes" of which "Roysia de Douera avia ipsius Roysie" was seised[633]. Henry III King of England granted "to Richard de Dovor his cousin…the custody of the lands which belonged to Geoffrey de Costentyn in Ireland" by charter dated 11 Jun 1244[634]. Matthew Paris records the deaths of "Ricardi filii Rogeri [maybe error for "Regii"] de Chilham, Ricardi de Dover filii eius" among those who died in 1245[635]. m (before 11 Jul 1214) as her first husband, ROHESE de Dover, daughter and heiress of FULBERT de Dover of Chilham, Kent & his wife Isabel Briwere ([1204/05]-[1264/65]). King John granted "terram…Roes de Dover uxorem suam…castro illo de Chilleha" to "Ric filio nostro" by order dated 11 Jul 1214[636]. Bracton records a claim, dated 1230, by "Matillis de Lucy, Ricardus filius Reginaldi [error for "Regis", probably incorrectly extended to Reginaldi from Regi?] et Roysa uxor eius" against "Robertum Yellestede" concerning "terre…in Neutona", which records the claimants’ ancestry "Galfrido…filio et heredi suo…et de predicto Galfrido…Herberto…filio et heredi suo et de predicto Herberto Matillidi et Royse sororibus" and "de predicta Roysa…Foberto filio suo et de predicto Foberto isti Royse…filie et heredi suo"[637]. She married secondly (after 14 Jul 1250) William de Wilton. The Pipe Rolls record in 1258 that "Willelmus de Wilton" married "Roesiam de Douor que fuit uxor Ricardi de Chileham"[638]. A writ following the death of "Richard de Dovor and Rose his wife" names "Richard son of Richard de Dovor, aged 21 on the eve of the Purification" as heir[639]. Richard & his wife had three children: a) RICHARD of Chilham (-after 2 Dec 1247). b) ISABEL (-7 Jul [1276/77], bur Abbey of St Augustine, Bristol). c) LORETTE (-after 1248).