Eudes de Preaux Rie Dapifer of Colchester 
Eudes de Preaux was born about 1047 in Ryes,Bayeaux,Calvados,Normandy. Eudes de Preaux's father was Hubert de Rie and his mother is Albreda de Preaux. He had three brothers and two sisters, named Ralph, Hubert, Adam, Albreda de and Margaret de. He was the third youngest of the six children. He died after 1088 in of Colchester,Kent,England.General Notes
!Dapifer, or steward, to King William. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 107]
WAITE LINE - 26th ggrandfather
4th son of Hubert de Rie and by far the ablest and most distinguished. He received enormous possessions in Essex, where his principal estates were, but he also held land in Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertford, Cambridge, Berks, Bedford, Northampton, as well as the gret hereditary office of seneschal or dapifer, to which he succeeded William FitzOsberne. He was with the Conqueror when he died at Caen and following the last wishes of his monarch, hurried to England to secure the succession for his son, William Rufus. Eudo concealed the king's death on his arrival and, clothed with the proper authority, went direct to Winchester, where he secured the keys of the treasury. He then visited the principal strongholds on the coast adjoining Normandy, whose castellans he made swear not to open their gates except at his expressed command, as the king's appointed emissary; after which he returned to Winchester, announced the king's death, handed the keys of the treasury to William Rufus, who was at once proclaimed king. This monarch confirmed him in the office of dapifer and gave him the town of Colchester, where he built a castle, the keep of which was the largest in England. He founded a magnificent abbey, dedicated to Saint-John the Evangelist, and living to a ripe old age, died in 1120, in his castle of Préaux, Normandy. By his wife, Rohesia, dau. of Richard de Bienfaite, he had issue an only dau., Margaret, who m. William de Mandeville, whose son, Geoffry, earl of Essex, was Steward of Normandy, in her right. [Falaise Roll, pp. 16-17, 82]
In 1086 Ralf de Berners was an under-tenant of Eudo Dapifer in Dunmow, Essex. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 14]
In 1086 William de Caron was an under-tenant of Eudo Dapifer in Clifton and elsewhere in Bedfordshire. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 25]
Son of Hubert de Ryes; certain of his knights (Amblie, Berners, Sacheville) came from places close to Ryes. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 40]
m. Rohesia de Clare. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]
Eudes de Rie/Eudo Dapifer (1101-20). Steward of the King. His family had been loyal supporters of Duke William; Eudes fought at the Conqueror's side at Hastings. He was tenant in chief of 25 Essex manors, and owned 5 houses, 40 acres, and half the church of St. Peter in Colchester, where he seems to have been popular. He found the Abbey of St. John, where he is buried, and granted the revenues of the castle chapel to the Abbey. He also founded the leper hospital of St. Mary Magdalen. Constable of Colchester Castle. He was a responsible officer serving William I, William II and Henry I.
His only child, Margaret, m. William de Mandeville. [Colchester Castle, p. 6]
Steward/Dapifer to William the Conqueror and head of the royal household through three reigns. As the first Constable of Colchester Castle, he was, ineffect, governor of the town. Eudo established the Abbey of St. John and aleper hospital just outside the town. [Colchester, p. 7]
Dapifer/Steward to King William; son of Hubert de Rie; m. Rohesia de Clare; father of Margaret de Rie who m. William de Mandeville. [Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, and Other Ancestors, Chart 2926]
Dapiter of Colchester; m. Rohese de Clare; son of Hubert de Rie; father or uncle of Margaret who m. William de Mandeville. [Suzanne Doing <smd49@*!*its.canterbury.ac.nz]
Early in life, he was sometimes styled Eudes fitz Hubert, his father being Hubert de Rye. And, the name is properly rendered Eudes, not Eudo. Eudo is the Latin equivalent of his name which needs to be translated into the modern form. [Douglas Richardson]
Euon de Rie, Dapifer of Colchester m. Rohese de Clare; may have been uncle, rather than father, of Margaret de Rie who m. William de Mandeville. [Suzanne Doig <smd49@*!*its.canterbury.ac.nz]
b.c. 1055, d. aft 12 Jul 1080; son of Hubert de Rie;m. Rohese Fitzrichard de Clare; father of:
1. Margaret who m. William de Mandeville
2. Hubert I who m. Agnes de Toeni
[Eileen McKinnon-Suggs <suggs16@msn.com, 8 May 2003]
b. 1063, d. 1080; son of Hubert Rie and Albreda Preaux; m. Rohese Fitzrichard Clare. [Charles Dohogne <dtiman@sbcglobal.net, 9 Jul 2003]
Eudes de Preaux were married in a religious ceremony about 1079.
Sources/Citations
Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants, 1898 @ p. 107, Falaise Roll: Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England @ p. 16-17, 82, The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families @ p. 14, 25, 40, Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees #1, CD#100, Colchester Castle @ p. 6-7, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and Other Ancestors @ Chart 2926, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom @ V:113
Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants, 1898 @ p. 107, Falaise Roll: Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of Normandy at the Conquest of England @ p. 16-17, 82, The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families @ p. 14, 25, 40, Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees #1, CD#100, Colchester Castle @ p. 6-7, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and Other Ancestors @ Chart 2926, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom @ V:113
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