Rohese DE GIFFARD
- Born: 1034, Longueville, Normandy, France
- Married: Abt 1054
- Died: 1113
- Buried: Colchester, Essex, England
Research Notes:
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.... 1
Marriage Information:
Rohese married Richard FitzGilbert DE BRIONNE, son of Gilbert DE BRIONNE Comte de Brionne et d' Eu and Unknown, about 1054. (Richard FitzGilbert DE BRIONNE was born before 1035 in Bienfaite, Normandy, France, died in Apr 1090 in St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England and was buried in Priory, St Neot's, Huntingdonshire, England.)
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