Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameGodebert, 25G Grandfather
Web Notes notes for Godebert
A Flemish family who went to Wales after 1066, and then to Ireland with the Normans.
The Roches came with the Normans to Ireland from Wales, in which country a Flemish ancestor had settled after William of Normandy's conquest of England. An account of those Roches who remained in Pembrokeshire will be found in the genealogical collections of the Rev. Thomas Leman (British Museum MSS. Hunter. Add. 24,457, p. 121, 59), in which mention is made of the fact that the ruins of Roche Castle, from which the family took its name, may be seen between Haverford Were and St. David's. The link with Wales still existed in 1358. The Welsh line became extinct, however, in the reign of Richard II.269
Godebert, a Fleming of the hundreth of Rhos (House) near Haverford (Wales).269
1131 Godebert of Flanders, a Fleming of Roose, held lands in Wales previously owned by Lambert Echiners (now Lambston) at Pembrokeshire. While of Flemish descent, the family adopted Norman ways. Later efforts by the Roches at Cork to link them to de Rochville who came with the Conqueror in 1066 to England (Roll of Battle Abbey) remain in doubt. De Rochville was granted a lordship in Pembrokeshire, but the link to Godebert is tenuous.
The Roches came with the Normans to Ireland from Wales, in which country a Flemish ancestor had settled after William of Normandy's conquest of England. An account of those Roches who remained in Pembrokeshire will be found in the genealogical collections of the Rev. Thomas Leman (British Museum MSS. Hunter. Add. 24,457, p. 121, 59), in which mention is made of the fact that the ruins of Roche Castle, from which the family took its name, may be seen between Haverford Were and St. David's. The link with Wales still existed in 1358. The Welsh line became extinct, however, in the reign of Richard II.269
Godebert, a Fleming of the hundreth of Rhos (House) near Haverford (Wales).269
1131 Godebert of Flanders, a Fleming of Roose, held lands in Wales previously owned by Lambert Echiners (now Lambston) at Pembrokeshire. While of Flemish descent, the family adopted Norman ways. Later efforts by the Roches at Cork to link them to de Rochville who came with the Conqueror in 1066 to England (Roll of Battle Abbey) remain in doubt. De Rochville was granted a lordship in Pembrokeshire, but the link to Godebert is tenuous.