From his father William de Magnaville, and his mother Magaret, daughter and heiress of the great Eudo Dapifer, Sir Geoffrey inherited an immense estate in England and in Normandy.
"The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple"
Charles G. Addison
Somehow or other the Norman Conquest did not despoil them; they held fiefs under Eudo Dapifer as peacefully as they had held them under King Harold; they took no part in the Crusades, nor the Wars of the Roses, nor the Civil Wars between Charles the First and the Parliament.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The place takes its name from Rohesia, daughter of Eudo Dapifer.
"Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe"
Sabine Baring-Gould