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
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6024c204-0ba1-4f3a-b582-4c63835103b2/download_file?safe_filename=Full%2Bthesis.pdf&file_format=application%2Fpdf&type_of_work=Thesis |
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."
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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 |
+ | 1. Humphrey Bigod, de Tillieul ▻ Adeliza Grandmesnil, Bigod | | 2. Maud Margaret d'Avranches | + | 3. Eudo son of Thurstan le Goz? de Chapel d. 1098 ▻ Muriel de Conteville | | 4. Wimund son of Thurstan de Moulins, I ▻ Marie ____ | | 5. William son of Thurstan de Lacy, b. abt. 1003, Lassy, Condé-sur-Noireau, Calvados, Normandy, France d. bef. 1086 (Age 82 years) | + | 6. Robert Bigod, b. abt. 1015 d. abt. 1071 (Age 56 years) ▻ | + | 7. Richard le Goz, Vicecomes d'Avranches, b. abt. 1025 d. 1086- ▻ Emma de Conteville; Margaret de Normandy, 1/2 sister to William the Conqueror; Beatrice _____, de Cormeilles | + | 8. Lesceline le Goz de Fontenay Le Pesnel, b. 1038 d. 1085 (Age 47 years) ▻ | |
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Headstones |
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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 |