Giffard (noble family)

The Giffard are a family of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy who are related to the Danish Gunnora , concubine Richard I , Duke of Normandy and mother of his children. Gautier Giffard received the rule of Longueville from William the Conqueror and went to England with him in 1066. His son Walter became the 1st Earl of Buckingham .

The family died out with his son, the 2nd Earl of Buckingham, the inheritance went to the Clare family via his aunt Rohese .

Tribe list

1. NN
   1. Gunnora , around 989 concubine Richard I , Duke of Normandy ( Rollonids )
   2. Herfast offspring : see FitzOsbern
   3. Sainfrie; ∞ NN, forestier
   4. Duvaline; ∞ Thorold (1035 Twald) de Pont-Audemer , † strangled after 1040 - descendants : the Beaumont family , Counts of Meulan , Earls of Leicester etc.
   5. Wévie; ∞ Osbern de Bolbec
      1. Gautier Giffard , Lord of Longueville , went to England with William the Conqueror in 1066, † before 1085; ∞ Ermengarde, daughter of Géraud Faitel, sister of Guillaume, Bishop of Évreux
         1. Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham , † July 15, 1102, after 1093 1st Earl of Buckingham, Lord of Longueville , buried in Longueville-sur-Scie ; ∞ Agnes, sister of Anseau de Ribemont
            1. Walter Giffard, 2nd Earl of Buckingham , † 1164, 1102 2nd Earl of Buckingham, buried in Notley Abbey ; ∞ Ermengarde
         2. Rohese; ∞ Richard de Bienfaite , Lord of Clare (Suffolk) , Lord of Bienfaite and Orbec ( Normandy ), 1075 Regent of England, † 1090 - Descendants : ( Clare (family) , Earls of Hertford , Earls of Gloucester )
      2. Geoffroy, Vice Count of Arques 1059; ∞ NN, daughter of Joscelin, Deputy Count of Rouen , and Emmeline
         1. Guillaume d'Arques, † probably 1087, Lord of Folkestone 1080/86; ∞ Béatrix Malet, daughter of Guillaume Malet
            1. Mathildis; ∞ Guillaume de Tancarville, † 1129 ( House Tancarville )
            2. Emma, ​​1106/37 from Folkestone , buried in the monastery of Saint-Léonard de Guînes ; ∞ I Nigel de Monville; ∞ II before 1106 Manassès, 1091 Count of Guînes , † 1137 in Ardres ( House of Guînes )
         2. Gilbert, † 1112, Bishop of Évreux
         3. ? Osbern d'Arques
            1. Guillaume
      3. Josceline de Bolbec ; ∞ Hugues de Montgommery, Vice Count of Hiémois 1027, † February 7th before 1050, buried in Troarn - descendants : House of Montgommery
   6. Sister; ∞ NN
      1. Béatrice, attested around 1053; ∞ Rudolf I de Varennes, attested in 1053/74 - descendants : the House of Warenne , Earls of Surrey

See also

• William Giffard († 1129), sixth Lord Chancellor and keeper of the seals of England (1093–1101)
• Alexander Giffard († after 1250), English crusader

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European Family Tables , Volume III.4 (1984) Plate 695.

reference is made there to:

• Thomas Stapleton: Observations upon the Succession in the Barony of William d'Arques , in: Archaeologia, Volume XXXI, London 1846.
• Léopold Delisle : Histoire du château et des sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , Paris 1867.
• Ulysse Chevalier : Repertoire des sources historiques du moyen age II , Paris 1907.
• Henri Vcte Regnault du Motey: Origines de la Normandie et du duché d'Alençon de l'an 850 à l'an 1085 , Paris 1920.
• David C. Douglas: The Domesday Monachorum of Christ Church Canterbury , London 1944.
• J. Horace Round: Studies in Peerage and Family History , New Impression, London 1971.
• André MJ Roux: En Normandie au temps du Conquérant , Caen 1980.
• George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Peerage .