Sir Robert de la Roche Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Richard and Robert Fitz Godebert, the former described as a knight of Pembrokeshire, took part in the conquest of Ireland under Henry II.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. Xi, p.42

• Background Information. ¹³²⁵
Godebert's two sons were Richard and Rodbert, who took part in the Irish expeditions. Richard was one of the first invaders, and is called in the Norman-French poem, The Song of Dermon and the Earl, a "knight from Pembrokeshire." Rodbert, who gave lands in Roose to Slebech, acquired some Irish property which had originally been granted to Maurice of Prendergast, one of the founders of Pembrokeshire families in Ireland. Rodbert's three sons, David, Henry and Adam took the name of de la Roche, as appears from the charter by which they gave the Island of Begerin, with the church built there, to St. Nicholas, Exeter, for the soul of their father Rodbert, the son of Godebert. The witnesses to the charter were the same Maurice already mentioned.

~Old Pembroke Families in the Ancient County of Pembroke, pp. 68-69