Richard de Rullos
Events
Date of Birth: possibly about 1075.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is suggested by Clay. He notes that Richard’s son Richard is described as “the second” in documents from 1141-63, implying that there was no earlier Richard than the one whose gift to Chester Abbey was confirmed 1096-1101. He acknowledges that this makes for “remarkable” chronology.
Date of Death: after 1155.
Place of Death: unknown.
Clay states that a pleading suggests that Richard survived until after the succession of Henry II, although elsewhere he suggests c. 1154.
Relationships
Father: Ilbert.
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 279). Ilbert was a Domesday tenant (Open Domesday page).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Emma, daughter or granddaughter of Enisan Musard.
This relationship is given by Clay (p. 96), who suggests that she may have been a daughter of Enisan Musard (The Rollos family later held one-half of Enisan’s property.) Keats-Rohan in 1999(p. 190) thinks it is more likely that Emma was a daughter of Enisan’s eldest son, but in 2016 (p. 191) she leans towards Emma being a daughter of Enisan himself.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Richard de Rullos (born about 1120 - died 1195).
Evidence
from the Charters of the earls of Chester:
no. 3
The so-called foundation charter of St. Werburgh’s abbey (Sanctorum prisca). [Spurious] [1093]
Test….Ricardo de Rullos…
no. 28.
Ranulf IIs ‘great charter', confirming in detail the gifts made to St. Werburgh's abbey by his predecessors and their barons and other donors, followed by a statement of his own gifts, and those of his barons. (Spurious] [1151-1152]
…Richardus de Rullos ȩcclesiam et decimam Wavertonȩ et Hottone et Clotonȩ. et molendin Clotonȩ….
from the Calendar of documents preserved in France:
no. 540.
[Circ. 1130]
Charter of Richard de Rollos, giving the canons regular of Plessis, in the presence of Richard bishop of Bayeux, with the assent and consent of his sons Richard and Robert, the church of St. Martin of Rollos, and a hundred acres of land there ; and granting the canons the tithes of his wood and his mill at Rollos, also the tithe of all his demesne in the Bessin and 30 shillings sterling (estellingorum) [of rent] in England ; all to be free of secular service.
Hiis testibus : Willelmo Nyobe ; Roberto decano de Baace ; Rogero sacerdote de Rollos; Zacharia de Burce, et celebrum (sic) fratre suo Ricardo de Vaudare ; Hosmundo de Waspre ; Pagano le Fauc ; Radulfo de Camp-espme ; Hosmundo de Flory ; [Galtero de Rocher] : Reginaldo Chastel, et multis aliis.
no. 541.
[Circ. 1130]
Charter of Henry I. addressed to the bishop of Bayeux and all his barons and lieges of Normandy. If the church of Rollos, which Richard de Rollos has given, with its appurtenances to St. Stephen's, Plessis-Grimould and the canons with its lands and other endowments, is of the fee which Richard holds of him in chief (in capite), and if [it be] free from claim, he grants the gift ; and St. Stephen's is to enjoy it and its other possessions as fully as do his other endowed houses (elemosine).
Testibus : R[oberto] de Sigillo, et R[ogero] de Fiscanum, et R[?adulfo] de Bellaf[ago], et R[oberto] de Ver, et R[oberto] de Curci. Apud Archenci.
no. 542
[Circ. 1141-1163]
Charter of Richard "the second" de Rollos, giving and granting to St. Stephen's, Plessis Grimould, in the presence of Philip bishop of Bayeux, the churches of Burcy and St. Martin of Trottemer with their tithes and appurtenances, and granting all the gifts that his father Richard de Rollos gave for his soul and that of his wife, etc. . .
References
Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071 - 1237. (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 126; 1988).
Calendar of documents preserved in France illustrative of the History of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I A.D. 918-1206 (J.Horace Round, ed.) (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1898).
The Chartulary or Register of The Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester (ed. James Tait) Part I (Chetham Society, 1920), Part II (Chetham Society, 1923).
Early Yorkshire Charters (William Farrer and Charles Travis Clay eds.) v. 5, pt. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1936).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. “A Question of Identity: Domesday Prosopography and the Formation of the Honour of Richmond” in Domesday Now: New Approaches to the Inquest and the Book (David Roffe and K.S.B. Keats-Rohan eds.) (The Boydell Press, 2016)
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People. (1999).
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).