Richard Fitz Roy Baron of Chilham

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 26:28, Natural son of John "Lacland," King of England, m. Rohese de Douvres (Dover), the daughter and heir of Folbert de Douvres (Fulbert de Dover), Lord of Chilham and Isabel de Briwere. ¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Berkeley), Vol.II, p. 127, father of Isabel, married to Maurice de Berkeley. Illegitimate son of King John. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events: Natural son of King John by a daughter of the Earl of Warenne (perhaps a daughter of Hamelin Plantagenet).

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Richard Fitz John or Fitzroy

The Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester names "Richard fiz le rei…Ion" and "the erles daughter of Wareine" his mother [Turner ´Richard Fitzroy´, p. 108, quoting The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester (Rolls Series), II, 716]. King John granted "terram…Roes de Dover uxorem suam…castro illo de Chilleha" to "Ric filio nostro" by order dated 11 Jul 1214 [Duffus Hardy, T. (ed.) (1835) Rotuli Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londinensi asservati, Vol. I, Pars 1 (London) ("Rotuli Litterarum Patentium"), 16 John, p. 11]. "William Briwere" was ordered to deliver to "Richard the king´s son all the lands which fell to Rose his wife hereditarily" [Turner ´Richard Fitzroy´, p. 105, quoting Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum, Vol. I, 268b].

Richard married Rohese of Dover, daughter of Robert of Dover and Unknown ¹⁴¹.^,160 (Rohese of Dover died before 11 Feb 1261 in England ¹⁶⁰.)