121698392. Baron Walter Fitz Robert & 121698393. Lady Maud de Lucy
1130, Walter born in
Little Dunmow, Essex, England, s/o 243396784. Robert fitz Richard &
159116049. Lady Maud
de Saint Liz.
1134, Walter’s father died; his mother remarried. (S)
Transactions – Essex, V5, 1873, P269.
1142, Walter fitz Robert married to Matilda de Bohun.
1146, Matilda de Bohun died.
~1155, Maud born in England, d/o 39979342. Geoffrey de
Lucy.
By 1153, Walter sued in the royal courts to recover
ancestral lands.
1154, King Stephen directed Walter ot safeguard property for
Colchester abbey, a foundation of his aunt.
12/19/1154, Henry II crowned king of England.
1/1156, “Apud Dover in transitu Regis”. Walter fitz Robert
witnessed a royal charter granting the earldom of Oxford to Earl Alberic.
6/1162, at Chinon, Normandy. Walter fitz Robert witnessed a
royal charter on behalf of the monks of St. Peter of Gant.
1166, Walter son of Robert and Richard de Blenchendone held
a fee of 1 knight of Margaret de Bohun. (S) Women of the English Nobility,
Ward, 1995, P145.
Bef. 1166, Walter confirmed a grant by his mother of a wind
mill to Daventry.
[––William & Maud––]
~1167, Walter married Maud de Lucy.
1168, ‘Walter filii Roberti de fefamento Regis’ reported
holding 63.5 knights’ fees. (S) Transactions – Essex, V5, 1873, P269.
[Undated], Walter’s
gift of the Hempnall water mill [except for fishing rights], called Twigrind,
to Bury St. Edmunds, was made on behalf of the souls of his parents and his 1st
wife, as well as for the salvation of his 2nd wife, for his heir, and for all
his successors.
1170, Walter pays on inheriting fees held of Margaret de
Bohun in Blakeney.
4/1173, King Henry’s eldest 3 sons rebelled against their
father. King William of Scotland allied himself with the sons.
6-8/1173, The conflicts were confined to Normandy; until
Robert de Beaumont arrived in England with an army of Flemings, who then allied
with the forces of Scotland against King Henry II.
10/17/1173, Robert de Beaumont, earl of Leicester, at
Fornam, St. Genevieve, defeated and captured by combined forces of Richard de
Lucy, Humphrey de Bohun and the earls of Cornwall, Gloucester and Arundel. The
engagement was begun by Walter fitz Robert, who rushed the Flemings, making a
great carnage. (S) Chronicle of the War
Between the English and the Scots, Fantosme, 1840, P18.
1/23/1176, at Northampton. Hugh de Cressi, Walter fitz
Robert, and Robert Mantel; justices appointed to Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Bedford, Bucks, Essex and Herts.
1/15/1177, at the Great Council at Northampton. Walter fitz
Robert witnessed a royal charter to the Order of Lepers of St. Lazarus of
Jerusalem.
1177, Walter sat on a judicial committee with Hugh de Cressi
and Robert Mantell. (S) The Chronicle of the Reigns of Henry II and Richard I,
Stubs, 1867, P75.
6/30/1180, at Caen, Normandy, Walter fitz Robert witnessed a
royal charter granting the office of Constabulariam to William de Humez, which
his father Richard de Humed had held.
By
1181, Maud’s father died, her brother Herbert the heir.
11/1181, at Westminster, Walter fitz Robert witnessed a
royal charter to the Canons of Waltham, Essex.
12/1181, at Winchester, Walter fitz Robert witnessed a royal
charter to Stafford abbey, Essex.
5/1/1182, Walter fitz Robert a justiciar of the Curia Regis
at Westminster.
3/1183, at Westminster, ‘Waltero fil. Roberti’ witnessed a
royal charter to Canons of Butley.
1184, Walter gave Dunmow priory the church of Burnham in
Essex.
1185, Walter fitz Robert of Clare a witness of the
confirmation of lands of the canons of Butley. (S) Feudal Assessments, Keefe,
1983, P105.
9/14/1186, at Marlborough, Walter fitz Robert witnessed a
royal charter in favor of the Carthusian priory of Witham, Somersetshire.
2/11/1188, At the Great Council at Geddington. Charter of
King Henry to the church of Bungay. Witnesses … Earl William of Sussex; Earl
David, brother of the King of Scots; Rannulf de Glanville; William de Humez;
Walter fitz Robert; Seher de Quinci; William Marshall; … Richard de Camville; …
(S) Hugh de Puiset – Bishop of Durham, Scammell, P284, 2011.
7/5/1189, King Henry, having been carried in a dying state
to Chinon, Normandy, confirms a grant by ‘Walleran fitz Robert’ to Theobald
Walter’s foundation at Swainby, Lincolnshire.
9/3/1189, Richard I crowned king of England.
1190-94, Walter fitz-Robert involved in a controvery between
the earl of Moreton, brother of the King, and the Bishop of Ely, governor of
the realm; Walter adhering with the Bishop. (S) Magna Charta Barons, Browning,
2009, P91.
1191, Castle of the honour of Eye [Suffolk], committed to
Walter fitz Robert in the truce [Walter supporting King Richard, who was on
crusade, against the king’s younger brother – future King John]. (S) Memoriale
Fratris Walteri de Coventria, V2, 1873, P326.
1193-4, Walter fitz Robert holding pleas in Essex and
Hertfordshire. (S) Judges of England, V1, Foss, 1848, P367.
By 1194, Maud’s brother Herbert died. [His lands had been
confiscated by the king.]
1198, Walter,
Baron Baynard, died in Woodham Walter, Malden, Essex, England.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P344. (S) CH&I,H.II.. (S)
Harvesting the Air, Kealey, 1987. (S) Women of English Nobility, Ward, 1995,
P49.
Family notes:
·
83 of Walter’s writs are exigent, endowing at
least 14 institutions. Daventry priory in Northamptonshire and Dumnow priory in
Essex were 2 of his favorites.
·
(S) The Lady in Medieval England, Coss, 2000,
P36 reverses the marriage of the wives. With limited other information, a
working timeline for M. de Lucy being the mother of Robert can be made either
way. ‘Lucy’ being the 2nd wife makes for a more reasonable timeline
for the children.
Children of Walter and Maud:
i. Robert Fitz Walter (60849196), born ~1175 in England.
ii. Alice fitz Walter (94563993), born ~1178 in England.
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