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Birth:          ABT 1114 

Notes
ancestry.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I11539
ROHESE, liv. 1175/6; m. 1146, Henry de la Pomerai, a great Devonshire baron, son 
and h. of Joscelin de la Pomerai, commander in Normandy, 1136, d. 1167. (They left 
sons Henry and Joscelin. CP XI, App. D, 119).

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Nancy Lopez, in a post-em citing Ancestral Roots & CP indicated that Rohese was a 
natural daughter of King Henry I by Sybil Corbet. Nancy is absolutely correct about 
CP. However the Ancestral Roots edition which I used as a source claimed new 
information (not available to CP) to indicate that Rohese was actually the daughter of 
Herbert FitzHerbert as follows:

124A-29. HENRY DE CHAMBERNON, d. ca. 1210, of Ilfracombe, Devon; m. Rose (or 
Rohese), liv. 1237, app. dau. & h. Sir William de Tracy, b. say 1135, seen 1170, of 
Bradninch, Devon, one of the 4 murderers of Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of 
Canterbury, s. of WILLIAM DE TRACY (222-26), d. ca. 1135, lord of Bradninch, 
Devon. Rose m. (2) Robert de Sechevill (or Sacchville), d. ca. 1218, of Braunton, 
Cowley, Dunsford & Rewe, Devon. Rose was h. to Clistwick, Devon (Clyst St. George 
or Clist Champernowne). Manor previously the maritagium of Sir William de Tracy's 
wife, given name unknown. The lord of Bradninch held Clyst St. George of the 
Pomeroy family; so Sir William de Tracy's wife likely dau. of Henry de Pomeroy, seen 
1156, lord of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, by ROHESE (195-26). Rohese was a sister of 
REGINALD FITZ ROY (121-26), Earl of Cornwall, a bastard son of King Henry I. Earl 
Reginald had several half-siblings by his mother, Sibyl Corbet's marriage to HERBERT 
FITZ HERBERT (262-27); so likely Rohese de Pomeroy was a child of her mother's 
marriage to Herbert Fitz Herbert, because as her dau.'s husb. Sir William de Tracy, 
himself a gr.s. of King Henry I, would be his wife's 1st cousin if she were also Henry's 
grandchild. This previously undetected Tracy-Pomeroy match gives stong 
circumstantial evidence that King Henry I was not Rohese de Pomeroy's father. ('Book 
of Fees, Part I', pp. 97, 612-613; Pipe Rolls 12th King John [A.D. 1210], ed. S.F. 
SLade (1951), 'Pub. of the Pipe Roll Soc.', Vol 64 [or n.s., Vol. 26], pp. 167-168; 
George Oliver, 'Monasticon Dioecesis Exoninsis' (1846), pp. 246-247; 'History of the 
Champernowne Family, cit.', p. 10; Sanders, 20-21, 106-107). [Ancestral Roots, 7th 
Edition]

NOTE: In line 195, which started with King Henry I as 195-25, there was a "Line 
Breaks here" with a comment referring to line 124A, added between Henry & Rohese, 
who was entry 195-26.

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Line 124A, above, was researched by Douglas Richardson, and he had not changed 
his mind in 30 Nov 2006, when he stated the following as part of a post to SGM:

However, by any stretch of the imagination, the Breton nobility database is poorly 
sourced. In fact, in my cursory review of the database, I've found several accounts 
with NO source citation at all! One such account is Rohese, wife of Henry (II) de 
Pomeroy, who is incorrectly identified as a bastard daughter of King Henry I of 
England [see the database account: Rohesia de Normandie]. Rohese was actually the 
daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert, by Sibyl Corbet, former mistress of King Henry I of 
England.

NOTE: Many times Douglas Richardson's statements are disputed in SGM, however I 
have seen this information on Rohese repeated 3 times in SGM (one of them by 
myself), with no disputes.

Parents
____ Henry I "Beauclerc" (1070 - 1 Dec 1135)
DE CORBET Sibyl (ABT 1092 - AFT 1157)

Siblings
DE DUNSTANVILLE Reginald (ABT 1110 - 1 Jul 1175)
FITZ HERBERT Rohese (ABT 1114 - )

Marriage To DE POMEROY Henry (ABT 1110 - AFT 1167)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE POMEROY Josceline (ABT 1085 - 1167)
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Children by DE POMEROY Henry ABT 1110 - AFT 1167
DE POMEROY Henry (BEF 1146 - AFT 1193)
DE POMEROY ----- (ABT 1147 - )

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