Richard Fitz Scrob
(-1067)
Osbern Fitz Richard
(-After 1100)

 

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Nesta verch Gruffydd of North Wales

Osbern Fitz Richard

  • Marriage: Nesta verch Gruffydd of North Wales 160
  • Died: After 1100, Herefordshire, England 160

bullet  General Notes:


~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, Osborn Fitz Richard, living 1100, of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, sheriff of Hereford in 1060, was the son of Richard Fitz Scrob also of Richard's Castle. Osborn married Nesta of North Wales, daughter of Gruffydd I ap Llywelyn and his wife Ældgyth. 160

bullet  Information about this person:

• Background Information. 1122
"Osbern Fit Richard was seized of numerous Manors, held under the King or the Earl of Shrewbury, and in the Counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Bedfordshire. Of all these, his father had held five in the Confessor's reign, while Osbern himself had held two in Worcestershire, sixteen in Herefordshire, and two in Shropshire at the same early period. The remainder had been acquired since the Conquest." Osbern Fitz Richard was succeeded by his son Hugh Fitz Osbern, who was living at the time of Henry I.

~Rev. Robert William Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. IV, pp. 302-304


Osbern married Nesta verch Gruffydd of North Wales, daughter of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn King of all Wales and Ældgyth Princess of Northumberland.160 (Nesta verch Gruffydd of North Wales was born about 1061 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales.)


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