Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 9HL4-JH9

Notes:

Gerard Flaitel († c. 1047) was a Norman knight and a ' most powerful lord in Normandy at the time of the Richards' according to Orderic Vitalis.

Life
Gerard was a Norman baron with substantial estates in the Pays de Caux, the Hiemois, the Evrecin and Risle valley.[1] He was a vassal of William of Talou in Arques.[2]

In 1035, when Robert I, Duke of Normandy left on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Gerard Flaitel was one of his companions.[3] In the spring of 1035 the group left Normandy probably taking the favored route through the Danube river basin to Constantinople.[4] Duke Robert obtained permission for him and his retinue to continue on to Muslim-controlled Jerusalem.[4] In Turkey Robert paid the required mussella (pilgrim tax).[3] They arrived in time to spend Holy Week in Jerusalem.[3] On their return through Asia Minor, Duke Robert fell ill while they were in Nicaea, and died there about 2 July. As he lay dying Gerard was asked to take possession of a Holy relic Robert acquired in Jerusalem, reputedly a finger-bone of Saint Stephen, and to make a gift of it to the abbey or monastery of his choosing.[3] Gerard returned to Normandy and became a monk at the Abbey of St. Wandrille taking the relic with him.[3] He died after 1047.[5]

Family
While the name of his wife (or wives) is not known Gerard Flaitel had at least the following children:

William Flaitel, Bishop of Évreux († 1066).[6]
Ermengarde, wife of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville.[6]
Basilla, wife of Ralph de Gacé, son of Robert, Archbishop of Rouen and secondly of Hugh de Gournay.[7]
Anscherius[8]

Gerard married in 1040 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: MBPN-D6J

Notes:

Per Wikipedia.org: see WALTER GIFFARD II, 1ST EARL OF BUCKINGHAM--Walter was married to Agnes de Ribemont, sister of Anselm de Ribemont.
Walter Giffard I, Count of Longueville was married to Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel.

Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham.
William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester.
Rohese Giffard (d. aft. 1113), married Richard fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare.
Lora Giffard, married Sir Robert de Hampden.

Family/Spouse: Giffard, Walter. Walter (son of Giffard, Osbern de Bolebec and de Crepon, Avelina Duceline) was born on 3 Jul 1010 in Longueville, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was christened on 7 Apr 1013; died on 15 Jul 1084 in Brewood, Staffordshire, England; was buried after 15 Jul 1084 in St Marys and St Chad Churchyard, Brewood, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: 9CZK-FK2
• Name: Osbern Giffard
• Name: Osbern Giffard

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Countess of Giffard
• FSID: 2MYM-NS1
• Possessions: Clare, Suffolk, England; Clare Castle

Notes:

Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose, or Rohais; died after 1113) was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century.
Early life
Giffard was the daughter of Walter Giffard. Her maternal grandfather was Gerard Fleitel. Walter Giffard was the lord of Longueville-sur-Scie in upper Normandy.

Marriage
Giffard was the wife of Richard fitzGilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne. Domesday Book records him as the eighth richest landowner in England, with lands centered on two locations – lands in Kent and Surrey grouped around Tonbridge and lands in Essex and Suffolk grouped around Clare.
Their children were
1. Roger,
2. Gilbert,
3. Walter,
4. Robert,
5. Richard,
6. Godfrey,
7. Rohese (or Rohais), and
8. Adelisa.

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. Richard became a monk at Bec Abbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey. The last son, Godfrey, is known only from his burial at Clare. Rohais married Eudo Dapifer and Adelisa married Walter Tirel.
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.

Landowner
Giffard occurs in Domesday Book as a landowner in her own right. 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. Rohese's descendants eventually were the heirs to the lands held by her father, receiving half the honour of Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189–1199).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_Giffard

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“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,
1. Roger,
2. Gilbert,
3. Walter,
4. Richard [Abbot of Ely],
5. Robert, and
6. Godfrey,
and four daughters,
7. Rohese,
8. Alice (wife of Walter Tirel), and
9. 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.
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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.

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].”

Family/Spouse: FitzGilbert, Sir Knight Richard de Clare. Richard was born on 30 Oct 1030 in Brionne, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 15 Mar 1091 in St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England; was buried after 15 Mar 1091 in St Neots Priory, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Nickname: Helias
• FSID: M85X-27H

Elias married Devereux, Ala in 1099 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England. Ala (daughter of Devereux, Count Walter I and de Ewrus, Philippa) was born in 1065 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1121 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Tonbridge, Kent, England; 2nd Lord
• Appointments / Titles: Clare, Suffolk, England; 2nd Lord
• Appointments / Titles: Cardigan, Cardiganshire, Wales; Lord of
• Nickname: The Marshal
• FSID: KHGK-FT4
• Occupation: Marshall to the Royal Household
• Occupation: Royal Serjeant and Marshall to Henry I

Notes:

Gilbert Fitz Richard (c. 1066–c. 1117), was styled de Clare, de Tonbridge, and Lord of Clare. He was a powerful Anglo-Norman baron who was granted the Lordship of Cardigan, in Wales c. 1107–1111.

Life
Gilbert, born before 1066, was the second son and an heir of Richard Fitz Gilbert of Clare and Rohese Giffard.[1] He succeeded to his father's possessions in England in 1088 when his father retired to a monastery;[2] his brother, Roger Fitz Richard, inherited his father's lands in Normandy.[3] That same year he, along with his brother Roger, fortified his castle at Tonbridge against the forces of William Rufus. But his castle was stormed, Gilbert was wounded and taken prisoner.[4] However he and his brother were in attendance on king William Rufus at his death in August 1100.[4] He was with Henry I at his Christmas court at Westminster in 1101.[4]

It has been hinted, by modern historians, that Gilbert, as a part of a baronial conspiracy, played some part in the suspicious death of William II.[5] Frank Barlow points out that no proof has been found he had any part in the king's death or that a conspiracy even existed.[5]

In 1110, King Henry I took Cardigan from Owain ap Cadwgan, son of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn as punishment for a number of crimes including that of the abduction of Nest, wife of Gerald de Windsor.[6] In turn Henry gave the Lordship of Cardigan, including Cardigan Castle to Gilbert Fitz Richard.[7] He founded the Clunic priory at Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk.[7] Gilbert died in or before 1117.[7][8]

Family
About 1088,[9] Gilbert married Adeliza/Alice de Clermont, daughter of Hugh, Count of Clermont, and Margaret de Ramerupt.[8] Gilbert and Adeliza had at least eight children:

Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1136.[10]
Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1148, 1st Earl of Pembroke.[10]
Baldwin Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1154, m. Adeline de Rollos.[11]
Adelize/Alice de Clare, d. 1163, m. (ca. 1105), Aubrey II de Vere, son of Aubrey I de Vere and Beatrice.[12] She had 9 children and in her widowhood was a corrodian at St. Osyth's, Chich, Essex.
Hervey de Clare, Lord of Montmorency.[13]
Walter de Clare, d. 1149.[14]
Margaret de Clare, d. 1185, m. (ca. 1108), Sir William de Montfitchet, Lord of Stansted Mountfitchet.[15]
Rohese de Clare, d. 1149, m. (ca. 1130), Baderon of Monmouth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Fitz_Richard

Family/Spouse: de Clermont, Adeliza. Adeliza (daughter of de Clermont, Hugh and de Montdidier, Margaret Marguerite) was born in 1058 in Clermont, Oise, Picardie, France; died in 1117 in Clare Castle, Clare, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Lord of Bienfaite
• FSID: GD4Z-LRX
• Occupation: Steward to King Henry I

Notes:

Robert Fitz Richard (1064–1136) was an Anglo-Norman feudal baron of Little Dunmow, Essex and constable of Baynard's Castle in the City of London. His feudal barony, the caput of which was at Little Dunmow in Essex, was granted to him by the king after it had been forfeited in 1110 by William Baynard, whose grandfather Ralph Baynard was the first holder and the builder of Baynard's Castle in the City of London.[1][2]

Robert was steward under King Henry I (1100–1135)[3] and under King Stephen (1135–1154).[4]

Family
Robert was the son of Sir Richard Fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare and Tonbridge (c. 1030–1091) and Rohese Giffard, (b. c. 1034), daughter of Sir Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville, and Agnes Flatel.[a]

Robert married (c. 1114), Matilda de St. Liz (Maud), daughter of Sir Simon de St Liz, Earl of Northampton, and Maud de Huntingdon.

Children were:

- Sir Walter Fitz Robert, (b. c. 1124), married Maud de Lucy. The Magna Carta surety, Robert Fitzwalter, was their son.
- Maud Fitz Robert, (b. c. 1132), Essex, who married (c. 1146), William d'Aubigny, son of Sir William d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir, and Cecily Bigod. Another Magna Carta surety, William d'Aubigny, was their son.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitz_Richard

Robert married de Senlis, Matilda in 1112. Matilda (daughter of de Senlis, Earl Simon and of Huntingdon, Matilda) was born in 1091 in Northamptonshire, England; died in 1158 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]