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Robert Fitz Richard

Male - Aft 1137


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  • Name Robert Fitz Richard 
    Born of Little Dunmow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aft 28 Nov 1137 
    Buried Saint Neot's Priory, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6065  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Richard Fitz Gilbert,   b. From 1030 to 1035, of Bienfaite, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1090  (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Mother Rohese Giffard,   b. of Longueville-sur-Scie, Seine-Maritime, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1113 
    Family ID F2605  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Maud de Senlis,   d. From 1158 to 1163 
    Married 1112 
    Children 
     1. Maud de Senlis,   b. Abt 1125,   d. Aft 1185  (Age ~ 61 years)
     2. Walter Fitz Robert,   b. Bef 1134, of Little Dunmow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1198, of Little Dunmow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 64 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2603  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “MAUD DE SENLIS, married in 1112 ROBERT FITZ RICHARD, of Little Dunmow, Essex, Baynard's Castle, London, Cratfield, Suffolk, etc., Steward of Kings Henry I and Stephen, 5th son of Richard Fitz Gilbert, of Bienfaite and Orbec, Normandy, Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, by Rohese, daughter of Walter Giffard, of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire [see CLARE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one son, Walter, and one daughter, Maud. He witnessed a number of charters of King Henry I. Sometime before 1136 he gave all his part of the water of Stour Mere, for the souls of himself and his ancestors, and for the love of his kinsman, Gerard Giffard the prior, to Stoke by Clare Priory, Suffolk. He accompanied King Stephen to York and Exeter in 1136. ROBERT FITZ RICHARD died in 1137, after 28 November, and was buried at St. Neot's Priory, Cambridgeshire. His widow, Maud, married (2nd) between 1137 and 1140 (as his 1st wife) SAHER DE QUINCY (or QUENCY), of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire and Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, and, in right of his 1st wife, of East Bradenham, Norfolk and Daventry, Northamptonshire; and, in right of his 2nd wife, of Great Childerley (in Childerley), Cambridgeshire. They had two sons, Robert and Saher, and one daughter, Alice. Sometime before 1176 Maud granted the church of East Bradenham, Norfolk to Norwich Cathedral with the consent of her son, Walter Fitz Robert. At an unknown date, with consent of Walter her son, she granted to Maurice Fitz Geoffrey all her dower lands in Essex and London, which William Fitz Walcher formerly held. He witnessed a charter of Simon son of Simon Earl of Northampton in 1153-7. His wife, Maud, was living in 1158. In 1158 he was pardoned 25s. danegeld in Northamptonshire. Sometime after 1163 he granted Sibton Abbey 20 acres of land from his demesne and 30 acres of broken heath in the village of Tuddenham, Suffolk. At an unknown date, Saher granted the canons of Dunmow, Essex a yearly rent of 10s. issuing out of the lordship of East Bradenham, Norfolk. Saher married (2nd) after 1165 ASCELINE PEVEREL, widow of Geoffrey de Waterville (occurs c.1138-61, dead in 1162), of Ailsworth and Upton (in Castor), Northamptonshire, and daughter of Robert Peverel, by his wife, Adelicia. They had no issue. She was co-heiress in 1148 to her brother, William Peverel, of Dover, by which she inherited a one-quarter share of the barony of Bourn, Cambridgeshire. Sometime between 1161 and 1172, she and her son, Ralph de Waterville, conceded to Shrewsbury Abbey a third of Crugelton and Slepe, Shropshire, as given previously by her uncle, Hamon Peverel. Sometime in the 1170s Saher confirmed William [de Belvoir] and his son, Reynold [de Oakley], in their possession of the manor of Great Childerley (in Childerley), Cambridgeshire. SAHER DE QUINCY died in 1190 (or about 1193).
      Weever Antient Funeral Monuments (1767): 388-391. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 181 (charter of Maud de Senlis to Daventry Priory, naming her deceased husband, [Robert] Fitz Richard, and her mother, Queen Maud [of Scotland]); 6(1) (1830): 147 ("[Year] 1112. Robertus filius Ricardi deponsavit Matildam de Sancto Licio quae fuit domina de Brade[n]ham"). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.)". Trans. British Arch. Assoc., 2nd Annual Congress (1846): 294-306. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 9 (1859): 62-78. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 11(1873): 269-271, 305-308. Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Birch Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 397 (seal of Maud de Senlis dated temp. Henry II.- Pointed oval. To the left. In tightly-fitting dress with long maunches, in the right hand a fleur-cle-lis. Standing. Legend wanting,). Round Feudal England (1895): 468 -479,575 (ped.). Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #37 (charter of William, Count of Boulogne and [Earl] of Warenne dated 1154; charter witnessed by Saher de Quincy). Copinger Manors of Suffolk (1905): 45-46; 2 (1908): 45-53. VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 483. Lindsay et al. Charters, Bulls and other Docs. Rel. to the Abbey of Inchaffray (Scottish Hist. Soc. 56) (1908): lxxxvi-lxxxix. C.P. 5 (1926): 472, footnote f; 6 (1926): 641, footnote b. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 280-281 (charter of Simon son of Simon Earl of Northampton dated 1153-7; charter witnessed by Saher de Quincy). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 102-103 (charter of Maud de Senlis dated early Henry II; charter witnessed by Walter Fitz Robert and Saher [de Quincy] her sons; attached seal displays a lady standing in mantle and gown, no legend), 194-195 (charter of Saher de Quincy dated after 1163; charter witnessed his son, Saher de Quincy, and [son-in-law], Roger de Huntingfield). Paget (1957) 14:2 (daughter Maud, who retained her mother's surname, has been confused with the latter), 230:1 (he died after Easter 1136 when he was one of the witnesses to Stephen's Charter to Winchester). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 129-130. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 4-16, 16-25,111-120, 241-251; 6 (1978): 220-230; 8 (1982): 97-110, 127-135, 248-267; 9 (1989): 41-44, 118-120. Dodwell Charters of the Norwich Cathedral Priory 1 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 40) (1974): 180-183 (charter dated 1176 mentions gift of the church of Bradenham, Norfolk "quarn Matilda de Silvenecti concessione filii sin Gwalteri ecclesie tue dedit et carta sua confirmauit"). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 115 (Gerard Giffard, Prior of Stoke by Clare, styled "kinsman" by Robert Fitz Richard before 1136). Kealey Harvesting the Air (1987): 107-131. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William Ito Richard 11 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 14: Coventry and Lichfield 1072-1159 (1997): 85-87. Raban White Book of Peterborough (2001): 250. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.), 316 (Clare ped.).
      Children of Maud de Senlis, by Robert Fitz Richard:
      i. WALTER FITZ ROBERT [see next].
      ii. MAUD DE SENLIS, married (1st) WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, of Belvoir, Leicestershire [see DAUBENEY 5]. (2nd) RICHARD DE LUVETOT, of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see DAUBENEY 5].
      Children of Maud de Senlis, by Saher de Quincy:
      i. ROBERT DE QUINCY, of Tranent, Fawside, and Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, etc., married ORABEL FITZ NESS [see QUINCY 5].
      ii. ALICE DE SENLIS, married ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD, of Linstead and Mendham, Suffolk, Frampton, Lincolnshire, East Bradenham, Norfolk, etc. [see HUNTINGFIELD 5].”

      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 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].”