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2. ROHESE (or ROSE) FITZ RICHARD), married EUDES THE STEWARD [Latin: Eudo Dapifer] (also known as EUDES FITZ HUBERT), of Colchester, Essex, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Seneschal to Kings William I and Henry I, son of Hubert de Ryes. They had one daughter, Margaret. In 1096-7 he refounded the Abbey of St. John the Baptist at Colchester, Essex. At an unknown date, his wife Rohese granted the manor of Hallingbury, Essex to the monks of Colchester Abbey. EUDES THE STEWARD died in 1120 at his castle of Préaux in Normandy, and was buried at Colchester Castle, Essex 28 Feb. following. His honour was then taken over by King Henry I and its partial dismemberment quickly followed. His widow, Rohese, died in 1121, and was buried at Bec.

Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 269 (Obit. of Tintern Abbey: sub Tintern Abbey — Genealogia Fundatoris: "Walterum de Giffard primogentum, qui alium Walterum procreavit, et dictus fuit Walterius Giffard secundus. Rohesia una sororum Walteri (duas plures enim habuit) conjuncta in matrimonio Ricardo filio comitis Gisleberti, qui in re militari, tempore Conquestoris omnes sui temporis magnates præcessit. Prædicta Rohesia supervixit et renupta Eudoni, dapifero Regis Normanniæ, qui construxit castrum Colecestriæ cum coenobio, in honore sancti Johannis, ubi sepultus fuit, cum conjuge sua, tempore Henrici primi. Margareta filia eorum nupta fuit Willielmo de Mandevill, et fuit mater Gaufridi filii comitis Essexiæ et jure matris, Normanniæ dapifer Prædictus Ricardus apud sanctum Neotum jacet sepultus. Huic rex Willielmus concessit baroniam de Clare villam verò cum castello de Tunbridge, de archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, pro aliis terris in Normannia perquisivit in escambium.") Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 37-38. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts due IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 292. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 6-7. Round Feudal England (1895): 468-479. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptise de Colecestria 1 (1897): 48 (undated charter of Rohais wife of Eudes Dapifer; charter mentions her brother [frater], Gilbert [Gelebertus/Gilberti].), 165-166 (undated charter of Walter Fitz Robert; charter names his father, Robert Fitz Richard, his mother, Maud, and his aunt [amite], Rohaise; charter witnessed by Matthew de Cruil his kinsman [nepote]). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. Devon Notes & Queries 4 (1907): 229-232. C.P. 5 (1926): 114, footnote b (sub Essex). VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 66-69. History 58 (1973): 18-28. Hollister Monarchy, Magnates, & Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World (1986). Keats-Rohan Domesday People 1 (1999): 194 (sub Eudo Dapifer: "He held land of the honour of Préaux in Normandy. In 1086 he held a major tenancy-in-chief in ten counties. Some of his land had earlier been held by the Breton Lisoius de Moutiers, who forfeited his holdings in 1075. I 1086 one of his tenants was Osbert, husband of his sister Muriel. Soon afterwards he acquired the land previously held by his brother Adam, a tenant of Odo of Bayeux. He also took over the tenancy of other fiefs, those of Roger and William de Auberville in Hertfordshire, and of Sasselin in Essex.") Tanner, Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 316 (Clare ped.).