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Birth:          ABT 1089 Luc, Domfront, Normandy
Death:          14 Jul 1179 Lesnes Abbey, Erith, Kent, England
Burial:         Priory of Lesnes, Kent, England

Notes
ancestry.com
also of Thorney Green, Suffold, England and Dunmow, Essex, England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_de_Luci
Richard de Luci (1089 – 14 July 1179) (also Richard de Lucy) was first noted as High 
Sheriff of Essex, after which he was made Chief Justiciar of England.
Biography[edit]

His mother was Aveline, the niece and heiress of William Goth. In the charter for Séez 
Cathedral in February 1130/31 Henry I refers to Richard de Luci and his mother 
Aveline. His brother Walter de Luci was abbot of Battle Abbey. [1]

An early reference to the de Luci family refers to the render by Henry I of the Lordship 
of Dice, Norfolk to Richard de Luci, Governor of Falaise, Normandy, after defending it 
with great valour and heroic conduct when besieged by Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou.

In 1153–4 de Luci was granted Chipping Ongar, Essex by William, son of King Stephen 
and his wife, Maud of Boulogne, where he built Ongar Castle. He was appointed 
Sheriff of both Essex and Hertfordshire for 1156.

When Henry II came to the throne in 1154, de Luci was made Chief Justiciar of 
England jointly with Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester. When de Beaumont died 
in 1168, de Luci continued to hold the office in his own right.[2] One of the members 
of his household was Roger fitzReinfrid, the brother of Walter de Coutances. Roger 
became a royal judge and later donated land to Lesnes Abbey in Kent, which had 
been founded by de Luci.[3]

He resigned his office between September 1178 and Easter of 1179,[2] and retired to 
Lesnes Abbey, where he died and was buried three months later on 14 July 1179.

De Luci's wife, Rohese, who is named in several documents, was a sister of Faramus 
de Boulogne.[4] Rohese and Faramus were children of William de Boulogne who was 
the son of Geoffrey fitz Eustace (son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne) and Beatrice, 
daughter of Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century).

De Luci's second son was Godfrey de Luci (d. 1204), Bishop of Winchester. His 
daughter, Maud, who inherited all his Essex lands, married Walter Fitz Robert; their 
son was Robert Fitzwalter. Richard also had a son Geoffrey and daughters Aveline 
wife of Gilbert de Montfichet of Stansted Mountfitchet, Alice wife of Odinel de 
Umfraville of Prudhoe, Northumberland and Rohese (Rose) who married William de 
Mounteney and later Michael Capra, both of Mountnessing, Essex.

Parents
DE LUCY Adrian (1064 - )
GOTH Aveline (1070 - AFT 1131)

Siblings
DE LUCY Richard (ABT 1089 - 14 Jul 1179)

Marriage To DE BOULOGNE Rohese (ABT 1104 - ABT 1177)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BOULOGNE William (BEF 1085 - )
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Children by DE BOULOGNE Rohese ABT 1104 - ABT 1177
DE LUCY Geoffrey (ABT 1120 - BEF 1179)
DE LUCY Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1128 - ABT 1223)
DE LUCY Alice (ABT 1129 - 1197)

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