RICHARD de Brionne, son of GILBERT de Brionne "Crespin" Comte d'Eu & his wife --- (before 1035-[Apr] [1090], bur St Neots, Huntingdonshire). Guillaume of Jumièges names "Richardum strenuissimum militem" as the son of "comes Gislebertus filius Godefridus comitis", adding that he donated property to Bec with "filii eius Gislebertus, Rogerius, Walterius, Rodbertus"[2084]. He and his brother are named sons of Gilbert de Brionne by Orderic Vitalis, recording that they took refuge in Flanders after their father was murdered[2085]. Seigneur de Bienfaite et d'Orbec, after Guillaume II Duke of Normandy restored these properties to him after being requested to do so by his father-in-law Baudouin V Count of Flanders[2086]. He accompanied William I King of England into England and was rewarded with 176 lordships, mainly in Suffolk (many attached to the honour of Clare) and Kent[2087]. Lord of Clare and Tonbridge. Regent of England 1075. Domesday Book records that "Richard [fitzGilbert] of Tonbridge" held Yalding in Twyford Hundred, East Barming in Maidstone Hundred, in Kent, land in Tandridge, Brixton, Reigate and other Hundreds in Surrey, and that "Richard son of Count Gilbert" held Lympstone in Devonshire, Harefield in Elthorne Hundred in Middlesex; numerous properties in Essex; and in Suffolk[2088]. The necrology of Saint-Nicaise de Meulan records the death of "Richardus filius comitis Gilberti monachus nostre congregationis", undated but listed among deaths recorded in late April[2089]. The Genealogia Fundatoris of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire records that "Ricardo filio comitis Gisleberti" was buried "apud sanctum Neotum"[2090].
m [as her first husband,] ROHESE Giffard, daughter of GAUTHIER Giffard & his wife Ermengarde --- (-after 1113, bur [Colchester]). Guillaume de Jumièges names "Galterium Giffardum primum" as father of "secundum Galterium Giffardum et filias plures" of whom "una...Rohais" married "Richardo filio comitis Gisleberti"[2091]. Her father is named by Orderic Vitalis, who does not state her own name[2092]. Domesday Book records "Rohais wife of Richard son of Gilbert" holding Standon in Braughing Hundred in Hertfordshire; and Eynesbury in Huntingdonshire[2093]. Rohese may have married secondly Eudes de Rie dapifer. According to the Genealogia Fundatoris of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, "Rohesia" married secondly "Eudoni dapifero Regis Normanniæ" after the death of "Ricardo filio comitis Gisleberti"[2094]. According to The Complete Peerage, this genealogy is "probably erroneous" but it does not explain the basis for the doubts[2095]. From a chronological point of view, the connection would be tight, assuming that the death date of Richard FitzGilbert is correctly estimated to [1090] and the birth of Rohese´s granddaughter by her alleged second marriage, Beatrix, is correctly assessed at [1105]. An alternative perspective is provided by the History of the foundation of St John´s abbey, Colchester which names "Eudoni…major domus regiæ" and "Roasya uxor eius…Gilbertum comes, Rohaisæ frater"[2096], who would have been the daughter of this Rohese Giffard as noted below.
Richard & his wife had eight children