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Richard le Goz, Vicecomes d'Avranches

Richard le Goz, Vicecomes d'Avranches

Male 1025 - 1086-Deceased    Has 90 ancestors and 93 descendants in this family tree.


  • Name Richard le Goz 
    Suffix Vicecomes d'Avranches 
    Birth abt. 1025 
    Gender Male 
    Fact In addition to his half-brother and distant cousin, William employed one
    more figure in his efforts to bring the Avranchin under firm ducal rule – Richard
    Goz. The son of the rebellious vicomte Thurstan of the Hiémois, Richard was
    apparently instrumental in reconciling his father with the duke after the events of
    c. 1043.206 Richard first appears in the duke’s company, alongside his father,
    before the revolt of 1047 in a grant to Mont Saint-Michel.
    207 As noted previously,
    early identification of Richard’s role at court and as vicomte of Avranches is
    confused by the existence of a separate vicomte Richard in this and other charters
    from the 1050s and early 1060s. Richard himself demonstrably was in the duke’s
    company during this period, appearing in three charters for Marmoutier as
    ‘Richard fitzThurstin’ that pre-date William Werlenc’s removal from office.208
    Richard attested in this manner as late as 1063, perhaps only becoming vicomte
    later that same year.209 Richard certainly had pre-existing links with Lower Normandy.

    Richard’s daughter, Margaret, would marry vicomte Rannulf II de Briquessart.210
    The Goz owed service to Bayeux and a collateral branch of the family later
    patronized Saint-Étienne, Caen with the consent of Richard’s son, Hugh.211
    Richard himself supported the Montgomery foundation of Saint-Martin de Troarn
    and, perhaps, Fécamp’s priory of Saint-Gabriel with grants in this region,212 where
    the family’s own monastery of Saint-Sever also gained property.213 Nevertheless,
    there is no evidence that the family possessed estates in the Avranchin before his
    appointment as vicomte.
    214 The establishment and endowment of Saint-Sever in
    the northern Avranchin demonstrates Richard’s commitment to his new western
    office, though its financial value is harder to assess. By 1172, the earls of Chester
    had fifty knights enfeoffed on their Norman estates, though by then Goz family
    property had merged with that of the vicecomital dynasty of the Bessin.215 The
    Norman pipe rolls reveal that the farm of the vicecomitatus of the Avranchin was
    a modest £60 per annum, though by the late twelfth century several major sources
    of revenue, including income from Avranches itself were in other hands.216 By
    contrast, the farm of the Bessin was £140.217 The Goz family, however, also
    enjoyed revenue from Saint-James-de-Beauvron, farmed for £100 in the late
    twelfth century.218 The castle, if not the town had been given over to Richard soon
    after its foundation in the 1060s.219



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    Name Richard de Surdeval


    From "Routh Family Revisited" compiled & edited by Ross H. Routh (2405 McKinley; El Paso TX 79930) is the following: "The Dalbreudius (or Dalriada, or Dalreuda) clan (after Rheuda, their general) were descendants of the Milesian Kings who went from Spain and France, 200 or 300 years before Christ to Ireland, and who left Ireland during the lifetime of St. Patrick (around 450 AD) and settled in Yorkshire. They spread themselves over a considerable area of what is now known as the East Riding and established their headquarters in Holderness, calling it Rheuda, which became in Domesday times variously known as Ruda, Rute, and later Routh. First known ancestor of the family of Routh was Norman Knight, Richard de Surdeval, whose name is given in the battle Abbey Roll and who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in the train of the Earl of Martain. This Richard, born about 1030, was a cadet of the House of Verdun and bore the family name of Le Moigne. A direct descendant of Richard, Sir Robert de Serdeval, married a daughter of Robert de Stuteville, lord of the senior Manor of Routh, County York, and also acquired for himself the ownership of the junior Manor of Routh from the Collegiate Church of St. John of Beverly in about 1153. Thereafter, he styled himself de Rue, or de Ruda, or de Routh. Later generations dropped the "de" and the family has been known as Routh since about the 13th century. In many ancient records, the family name Routh has been variously spelled Rue, Ruda, Rudel, Rute, Routhe, Rowth, Rowthe, Rooth, Ruth, Rothe, Roughe, or Roughte at different periods during the last 800 years. And, while most of the members of the family in England pronounce the name to rhyme with "South" most of those in America have chosen to pronounce it to rhyme with "Youth." The village of Routh, a tiny hamlet of less than 300 people, still exists about 4 miles northeast of Beverly in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Routh Church, which was built about 1200 still stands there and is in daily use. Many members of the family of Routh are buried in Routh Church and churchyard, but there are no persons named Routh who live there. The Routh family is one of the few families in England which can prove unbroken descent from the time of the Norman conquest to the present day."

    https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/routh/129/ 
    Name Richard le Goz
    Richard d'Avranches
    Richard Cormeilles
    Richard de Lacy
    Richard de Sourdeval, Domesday Tenant 
    Title Earl of Chester 
    Title Richard of Bayeux in 1045 
    Death 1086- 
    Siblings 7 Siblings 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    CHLCA Phylogenetic Ancestral Tree   (55 x Great Grandfather) 
    Judith Monterolier, Goz  (Mother) 
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    Person ID I105553623  St. John Origin and Ancestry DNA Database | St. John Generation One - Raoul de Sancto Johanne
    Last Modified Oct 21, 2021 

    Father Thurstan le Goz, Viscount Exmes & Falaise,   b. 994-1000   d. 1073 (Age 73 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Judith Monterolier, Goz 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage May 22, 1015  Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F399503  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Emma de Conteville 
    Children 
     1. Marguerite / Mathilde le Goz, m. Ranulf Vicomte du Bessin, son of Raunulf Vicomte due Bessin & Aleix de Normandy his wife   d. aft. 1098  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    +2. Hughes le Goz, d'Avranches,   b. abt. 1038   d. Jul 27, 1101 (Age 63 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Putative]
    +3. Judith le Goz, d'Avranches m. Richard de I'Aigle,   b. 1040   d. May 21, 1109 (Age 69 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     4. Albreda le Goz, d'Avranches; married Baldwin de Meules, Viscount of Brionne,   b. abt. 1045  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Adopted]
     5. Elisende le Goz, d'Avranches; married Gilbert d'Count d'Eu,   b. abt.1054  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     6. Arbella le Goz, d'Avranches,   b. abt. 1058  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     7. Hellisende Goz, m. William II of Eu,   b. 1065   d. 1112 (Age 47 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
     8. Robert le Goz, de Surdeval,   b. 1070   d. Sep 20, 1106, Tinchebrai, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Family ID F399502  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified May 28, 2020 

    Family 2 Margaret de Normandy, 1/2 sister to William the Conqueror 
    Notes 
    Children 
     1. Margaret le Goz, le Meschelin  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Family ID F399538  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified Mar 10, 2020 

    Family 3 Beatrice _____, de Cormeilles 
    Children 
    +1. Gilbert le Goz, d'Avranches  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    Family ID F399542  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified Mar 11, 2020 

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  • Reference  St. John, Suzanne. "Richard le Goz, Vicecomes d'Avranches". The St. John Genealogy Project. https://www.stjohngenealogy.com/getperson.php?personID=I105553623&tree=OSA0001 (accessed March 28, 2024).


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