Richard Fitz Scrob

   Another name for Richard was Richard Scrupe.¹¹²²

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 177:2, Richard Fitz Scob, died in 1067, of Richard's Castle, father of Osborn Fitz Richard, also of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire. ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹¹²³
Richard "fitz Scrob," or "le Scrupe" was a Norman favorite of Edward the Confessor. He was England in 1052, and had been granted an estate on the Welsh border. He built a castle at Aureton which was called "Richard's Castle." Richard survived the conquest, and in 1067 was actively resisting Eadric the forester. This was the last time his name was recorded.

Richard married a daughter of Robert the decon, son of Wymarch, and they had a son, Osbern fitz Richard. Osbern was in possession of the castle his father built at Aureton at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1986. Osbern had two sons, Hugh and Turstin.

~ Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, Vol. XI, p. 20

• Background Information. ¹¹²²
"Richdard Scrob, otherwise called Richard Fitz-Scrob, was one of the Norman favorites of King Edward the Confessor, one of those too who escaped the rancor of Earl Godwin and his sons in 1054, and were not forced to leave the kingdom with the others of their fellow-countrymen. Robert the Deacon, a Norman, whose daughter Richard Scrob had married, was another who remained. We gather from Domesday an account of Richard Scrob's possessions in the time of King Edward. He had four manors in Worcestershire and one in Shuropshire (Burford). He had also an interest in Herefordshire, where he is alluded to as Richard Scrupe [Domesday, fos. 185, a, 2 and 186, b, 2], but the Herefordshire Domesday refers to a period of the Confessor's reign when Osbern fitz Richard was already seized of sixteen Manors in that County [ibid]. I (Eyton) concluded that his Father had given them up to him.

"Richard Scrupe survived the Conquest, and obviously threw his weight into the scale of the Normans. In the year 1067 we find him associated with the Castellans of Herefordshire, and not very successfully resisting Edric the Forester, who still continued to maintain the Saxon cause in the West [Florence Wigorn. II, 1]. Richard Scrupe is said to have built Richard's Castle in Herefordshire, and its name to have been derived from his as its founder. This trenches on a very curious but difficult question. The Herefordshire Domesday indetifies no such Castle, but under the land of Osbern Fitz Richard it mentions a Castle called Auetone in Cutestornes Hundred, which was worth 20s. per annum to Osbern Fitz Richard, and wherein he had twenty-three men who paid him half the said income [Domesday, fo. 186, b, 2]. Another page of the same Record speaks of a Manor of 5½ hides in the Chatellany (castellarid) of Auretone as having been held in the days of the Confessor by one Richard [ibid, fo. 185, s. 2]. This Richard, I (Eyton) doubt not to have been Richard Scrupe, and Aureton to have been the Castle afterwards called Richard's Castle, but why the Castle came to his son Osbern without estate I (Eyton) cannot imagine. Richard Scrupe was deceased before Domesday," and his son, Osbern Fitz Richard succeeded him.

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