Robert FitzWalter (1247 - 1326)

Born 1247 in Henham, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Devorguille (Burgh) FitzWalter — married 1259 in England

Husband of Alianore (Ferrers) FitzWalter — married before 11 Mar 1290 in King's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1326 at about age 79 in Diss and Hempnall, Norfolk, England

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Biography

Sir Robert FitzWalter, 1st Lord FitzWalter, Baron of Little Dunmow, Constable of Bere & Hadleigh Castle, Justice of Essex was born in 1247 at Henham, Essex, England.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Marriage & Children

Sir Robert FitzWalter married, firstly, Devorguilla de Burgh, daughter of Sir John de Burgh, Baron Lanville & Walkern and Cecily de Baliol, in 1259. They had 1 son & 2 daughters:^{[1][2][6][7][4][8][9]}

1. Walter
2. Christian, wife of William le Marshal, 1st Lord Marshal
3. Blanche, a nun at Barking Abbey

He married, secondly, Alianore de Ferrers, daughter of Sir Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl Derby and Alianore de Bohun, before 11 March 1290 at King's Chapel in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England. They had 1 son & 3 daughters:^{[1][10][2][11][4][12]}

1. Sir Robert
2. Ida, wife of Sir Robert de la Warde, Lord Warde & of Sir Hugh, 1st Lord Neville of Essex
3. Denise
4. Mary

Sir Robert FitzWalter and Alice de Montfort obtained a marriage license circa 10 May 1308.^{[1][2][3][4][5][13][14]}

Lands

Douglas Richardson describes Robert as "of Woodham Walter, Little Dunmow, Burnham, Henham, Roydon, Sheering, Shopland, Tey, Theydon, and Wimbish, Essex, Diss and Hempnall, Norfolk, Shimpling, Suffolk, etc.... and in right of his 1st wife, of Great Bromley, Great Hallingbury, and Lexden, Essex, Datchworth and Walkern, Hertfordshire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Finedon, Northamptonshire, etc."^[15][16]

Death

Sir Robert FitzWalter died on 18 January 1326 at of Diss & Hempnall, Norfolk, England.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 327.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 206-208.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 27-29.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 650-652.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 580-581.
6. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 578.
7. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 500.
8. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 288.
9. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 457.
10. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 155.
11. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 568.
12. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 307.
13. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 136.
14. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 474.
15. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, volume II, pages 651-654 FITZ WALTER 8.
16. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry (2011), volume II, pages 206-209 FITZ WALTER 3, Google Books.

• Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. II p. 651-654
• Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 206-209

See Also:

• Blomefield, Francis. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (W. Miller, Norfolk, England, 1739)

• Vol. 1, Page 4-5: "Son and Heir then ten Years old (at time of father's death), who was Knighted in 1274." Stephen Fitz-Walter (his Uncle?) was his "Guardian and Trustee". "In 1293, he was summoned to attend King Edward I. into Gascoign, in order to recover his Inheritance from the French King, to which Place he went, in the Retinue of Edmund Earl of Lancaster. In 1296 he was in the Welsh Expedition, and in 1299, in the Scotch Wars... (He) alien'd Baniard's Castle in London, and Montfitchet Tower to the Archbishop of Canterbury, reserving his Barony that belonged to it, to himself and his Heirs. He was the first of this Family that stil'd himself Lord of Wodeham in Essex, where he had a Seat and a fine Park. He had two Wives, Devorgil... and Eleanor...by whom he had Robert his Son who succeeded him: In this Year he obtained a Charter of Confirmation for a Fair every Year at his Manor of Diss, upon the Eve, Day, and Morrow, after the Feast of St. Simon and Jude, and three Days following: He was one of those Parliamentary Barons that sealed the Letter to the Pope, Anno 1301, denying that the Kingdom of Scotland was his Fee... It seems as if the Church of Diss was built by this Man, his Arms cut in Stone still remaining several Times on the South Porch."

• Wikipedia: Baron FitzWalter
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

Robert FitzWalter is the grandson of surety baron Robert FitzWalter; descendants documented in Douglas Richardson's 2011 Magna Carta Ancestry (volume II, pages 206-215 FITZ WALTER 3) include Gateway Ancestors William Bladen, Edward Bromfield, and Francis Dade (II:210, footnote), John and Margaret Nelson (II:215, footnote 136), and others.

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