Rohese (Rohais) Fitzrichard de Clare
- Born: 1067, Tunbridge, Kent, England
- Married (2): After 1080
- Died: 7 Jan 1121
- Buried: Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France
Research Notes:
The History of the foundation of St John’s abbey, Colchester names “Eudoni…major domus regić” and “Roasya uxor eius…Gilbertum comes, Rohaisć frater”, clarifying in a later passage that she was “filia Ricardi…filius Gilberti comitis, [et] Rohaisam…soror Willielmi Giffardi episcopi Wintonić”. According to the Genealogia Fundatoris of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, “Eudoni dapifero Regis Normannić” married ”Rohesia” widow of “Ricardo filio comitis Gisleberti”, who would have been the mother of this Rohese.... “Rohais uxor Eudonis dapiferi” donated “manerium de Halingberi sicut dominus meus Eudo die qua vivus et mortuus fuit illud habebat” and land which “Gelebertus frater meus” gave her, for the souls of “Eudonis dapiferi mariti mei et Gilberti fratris mei” by undated charter. “Walterus filius Roberti” donated “terram de teia” to Colchester St. John, for the souls of “patris mei Roberti filii Ricardi et matris mee Matildis et...Rohaise amite mee que ecclesiam Sancti Johannis fundavit et fratrum suorum”, to Colchester St. John by undated charter. 1
Marriage Information:
Rohese married Eudo "Dapifer" de Rye, son of Hubert de Rye. (Eudo "Dapifer" de Rye was born about 1055 in Ryes near Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France and died on 1 Mar 1120.
Marriage Information:
Rohese also married Hugues I de Montdidier, comte de Dammartin, son of Manassès de Montdidier, comte de Dammartin and Constance Capet, Princess of France, after 1080. (Hugues I de Montdidier was born in 1042 in Dammartine, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France and died about 1100.)
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