Individual Details

Rohese "Rose" Giffard

(1034 - Aft 1113)

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Rohese Giffard1
F, #158425, b. 1034
Last Edited=5 Sep 2010
Rohese Giffard was born in 1034 at Longueville, Normandy, France.2 She was the daughter of Walter Giffard, Seigneur de Longueville and Agnes Ermentrude Fleitel.2,1 She married Richard fitz Gilbert, son of Gilbert, Comte de Brionne and Gunnora d'Aunou, circa 1054.3
She was living in 1113.3
Children of Rohese Giffard and Richard fitz Gilbert

Robert fitz Richard+4 d. 1134
Roger fitz Richard5
Gilbert fitz Richard+1 b. b 1066, d. 1114

Citations

[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 387. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S125] Richard Glanville-Brown, online , Richard Glanville-Brown (RR 2, Milton, Ontario, Canada), downloaded 17 August 2005.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 242.
[S37] BP2003 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 243.
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From Wikipedia

Rohese Giffard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose,[1] or Rohais;[2] died after 1113) was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century.

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]

Giffard was the wife of Richard fitzGilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne.[3] Domesday Book records him as the eighth richest landowner in England, with lands centered around 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 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.[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]

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]
Citations

Sanders English Baronies p. 34
Mortimer "Clare, Richard de" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 413
Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 363

Cockayne Complete Peerage III p. 242

References

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.

Events

Birth1034Longueville, Normandy, France
DeathAft 1113

Families

SpouseRichard fitz Gilbert (1024 - 1090)
ChildGilbert Fitz Richard (1066 - 1114)
ChildRobert fitz Richard ( - 1134)
SpouseRichard fitz Gilbert (1024 - 1090)
ChildGilbert Fitz Richard (1066 - 1114)
FatherWalter Giffard ( - 1085)
MotherAgnes Ermentrude Fleitel ( - )
FatherWalter Giffard ( - 1085)
MotherAgnes Ermentrude Fleitel ( - )