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Birth:          1034 Longueville, Normandy
Death:          BEF 1133 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_Giffard
Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose,[1] or Rohais;[2] died after 1113) was a Norman 
noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century.

Giffard was the daughter of Walter Giffard. Her maternal grandfather was Gerard 
Fleitel.[3] Walter Giffard was the lord of Longueville-sur-Scie in upper Normandy.[2]

Giffard was the wife of Richard fitzGilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne.[3] 
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.[2] Their children were Roger, 
Gilbert, Walter, Robert, Richard,[4] Godfrey,[2] Rohese (or Rohais), and Adelisa.[4] 
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.[2] Richard became a 
monk at Bec Abbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey.[4] The last son, Godfrey, is 
known only from his burial at Clare.[2] Rohais married Eudo Dapifer and Adelisa 
married Walter Tirel.[4] 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.[2]

Giffard occurs in Domesday Book as a landowner in her own right.[3] 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.[2] Rohese's descendants eventually were the heirs 
to the lands held by her father,[5] receiving half the honour of Long Crendon in 
Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189–1199).[1]

Parents
GIFFARD Walter (ABT 1005 - ABT 1093)
DE FLEITEL Agnes Ermentrude (ABT 1014 - )

Siblings
GIFFARD (GYFFARDE) Osborne (Osbert) (ABT 1030 - BEF 1096)
GIFFARD Rohese (1034 - BEF 1133)
GIFFARD Walter (ABT 1040 - 15 Jul 1102)

Marriage To DE CLARE Richard Fitzgilbert "de Tonbridge" (ABT 1024 - ABT 1090)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BRIONNE Gilbert ("Crispin") (ABT  980 - ABT 1040)
D'EU Constance (ABT 1009 - )

Children by DE CLARE Richard Fitzgilbert "de Tonbridge" ABT 1024 - ABT 1090
DE CLARE Rohese FitzRichard (1055 - 1121)
DE CLARE Avice (ABT 1057 - )
DE CLARE Gilbert Fitz Richard (ABT 1060 - ABT 1115)
DE CLARE Robert Fitz Richard (ABT 1064 - 1136)

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