Walter de Dunstanville († 1241)

Walter de Dunstanville (also Walter de Dunstanville II ) (* around 1192, † 1241 ) was an English nobleman.

Walter de Dunstanville came from the Anglo-Norman family Dunstanville . His father Walter de Dunstanville I was expropriated in 1194, presumably because he had supported the rebellion of Johann Ohneland against King Richard the Lionheart , and died a little later. Walter nevertheless became the heir to his father's estates, which were administered until he came of age by his guardians, including William Brewer and his cousins Gilbert and Thomas Basset . This underage administration led to major losses before Walter could take over his inheritance around 1213. In 1214 he took part in the unsuccessful campaign of King John Ohneland in the Poitou . From 1215 he supported the aristocratic opposition to the king, but after the end of the First Barons' War , like other former rebels , he was pardoned during a large council that met in Winchester in October and November 1217 . In 1228 he took part in the king's campaign to Ceri in Wales and in 1230 in the vain French campaign of Henry III. part.

Dunstanville married Petronilla, a daughter of William Fitzalan. She brought the Isleham estate in Cambridgeshire with her into the marriage as a dowry . With her he had at least one son, Walter III de Dunstanville (after 1212-1270), who became his heir.

Web links

• Kathleen Thompson: Walter de Dunstanville [ii] (c.1192-1241). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Carpenter: The minority of Henry III . University of California Press, Berkeley 1990. ISBN 0-520-07239-1 , p. 56