See also

Family of Richard +* FITZSCROB and OF ESSEX

Husband: Richard +* FITZSCROB (1030-1067)
Wife: OF ESSEX (1035- )
Children: Osbern +* FITZRICHARD (1055-1080)

Husband: Richard +* FITZSCROB

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Richard +* FITZSCROB

Name: Richard +* FITZSCROB
Sex: Male
Father: Scrob +* (1000- )
Mother: -
Birth 1030 Richard's Castle, Ludlow. Herefordshire, England
Occupation Knight
Title SIr
Death 1067 (age 36-37) Richard's Castle, Ludlow. Herefordshire, England

Wife: OF ESSEX

Name: OF ESSEX
Sex: Female
Father: Robert + FITZWIMARC (1015-1075)
Mother: -
Birth 1035 Essex, England

Child 1: Osbern +* FITZRICHARD

Name: Osbern +* FITZRICHARD
Sex: Male
Spouse: Nest +* VERCH GRUFFYDD (1056-1153)
Birth 1055 Hereford, Herefordshire, England
Death 1080 (age 24-25) England

Note on Husband: Richard +* FITZSCROB

One Richard Fitz Scrob (or Fitz Scrope), apparently a Norman knight, was granted lands by Edward the Confessor before the Norman Conquest, in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire as recorded in the Domesday Book. He built Richard's Castle, near Ludlow in Shropshire, and is recorded in chronicles of the Conqueror's early years in England as asking for assistance against the Welsh.

 

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The name may be derived from the old Anglo-Norman word for "crab" and that it began as a nickname for a club-footed illegitimate son of an English princess by a Norman knight. A crab moves sideways and so the name could fit a child with club feet. Whether far fetched or not, it is fact that at one stage the family crest was a crab (subsequently five feathers) and that the family motto is still "Devant si je puis" -("forward if I can"), which could have a double meaning as of course a crab can only go sideways.

 

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