Robert fitz Richard

- Aft 1137

• Name	Robert fitz Richard  [1]
  Birth	of Dunmow, Essex, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Abt 1134  [3]
  Alternate death	Bef 1136  [4]
  Death	Aft 28 Nov 1137  [5]
  Burial	St. Neot's Priory, Cambridgeshire, England   [5]
  Person ID	I2153	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Richard fitz Gilbert,   b. Abt 1033, of Bienfaite and Orbec, Normandy, France d. Bef Apr 1088 (Age ~ 55 years)
  Mother	Rohese Giffard   d. Aft 1113
  Family ID	F230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud de Senlis,   b. Abt 1092   d. Aft 1158 (Age ~ 67 years)
  Marriage	1112  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Maud de Senlis,   b. Abt 1125   d. Aft 1185 (Age ~ 61 years) + 2. Walter fitz Robert,   b. Bef 1134, of Little Dunmow, Essex, England d. 1198, Little Dunmow, Essex, England (Age > 64 years)
  Family ID	F2688	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Robert de Clare, because apparently people were assigned de Clare as a surname entirely at random in the twelfth century. Steward to kings Henry I and Stephen.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2780] Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 1, edited by William Farrer. Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1914. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982. [S6417] David L. Greene, "The Royal Ancestry of the Ipswich (Massachusetts) and Long Island Lawrence Families." The Genealogist 10:3, 1989. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.