Eudo Dapifer

Eudo Dapifer (* in the 11th century, † 1120), also known as Eudo of Ryes or Eudo Fitzhubert, was seneschal ( " Dapifer " ) of the English kings, William the Conqueror, William Rufus and Henry Beauclerk.

Life

He was the youngest son of Hubert de Ryes, a nobleman from the Bessin. Eudes and his brothers Robert (later Bishop of Sées ) and Adam there, the young Duke William safely guided by Falaise in 1046 after an assassination attempt, which Eudo earned the favor of the Duke were. He remained in the vicinity of William after the Norman Conquest of England, after the death of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, 1071, his successor as Seneschal of the now king. Also among the two successors William he held that office until his death in 1120. Eudo was thus an important public official in the first decades of Anglo-Norman rule in England, acted for decades as an administrator, judge and consultant, as well as a commander. He supported William II during the siege of Robert de Montbray in Newcastle ( 1095 ), was a witness to the contract with the Count of Flanders (1101 ) and accompanied Henry I on his campaign against Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (1101 ).

He had received from his king wide lands in a dozen different counties, especially in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Norfolk, which were combined under the name of " Honour Eudo Dapifers " and earned him an annual income of £ 500.

Eudos wife was Rohaise († 1121 ), a daughter of Richard de Clare Bien Faite from the branch of the family of Rolloniden, the family of the Dukes of Normandy. From this marriage he had a daughter, Margaret, who was married to William de Mandeville. Despite the close connection with the family Mandeville in 1103, he received another very lucrative Manors which had been William de Mandeville removed. Eudo died without a male heir, so his Honour fell back to the Crown, but it was 1140/41 passed by both King Stephen and Empress Matilda from his opponent to his grandson, Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex.

Eudo was the founder of the abbey of Saint John in Colchester, in whose Chronicle ( Chronicle of St. John 's Abbey, Colchester ), numerous legends about the Ryes family are.

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