Rohese Giffard ^{2 3 4}

  General Notes:

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]. An alternative perspective is provided by the History of the foundation of St John´s abbey, Colchester which names "Eudoni…major domus regiæ" and "Roasya uxor eius…Gilbertum comes, Rohaisæ frater", who would have been the daughter of this Rohese Giffard.

m [firstly] RICHARD FitzGilbert de Brionne, son of GILBERT de Brionne "Crespin" Comte d'Eu & his wife --- (before 1035-[1090], bur St Neots, Huntingdonshire).

[m secondly EUDES de Rie dapifer, son of HUBERT [I] de Rie & his wife ---(-1 Mar 1120, bur Colchester).]


[FMG/Medieval Lands]

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He [Richard FitzGilbert de Clare] married Rohese, daughter of Walter GIFFARD, the elder, and aunt and heir of Walter [GIFFARD], 2nd Earl of Buckingham, through which match his descendants became co-heirs to the lands of that family. He was living 1081, but appears to have died about 1090 being buried at St. Neots, co. Huntingdon. His widow was living, as such, 1113.

[Complete Peerage III:242, XIV:183, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] ¹

Rohese married Richard de Brionne Lord of Clare and Tonbridge, son of Gilbert de Brionne Comte d'Eu and Unknown.¹ (Richard de Brionne Lord of Clare and Tonbridge was born before 1035,^{1 4} died about Apr 1090 ^{1 5 6} and was buried in St. Neots Priory, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19, GB.)