Walter de Gloucester

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Walter de Gloucester († around 1129 ) was a Norman knight from the Pitres family .

He was a son of Roger de Pitres , who had come to England in the wake of William FitzOsbern during the Norman conquest . After the death of his uncle Durand around 1097, he inherited the estates of his father and uncle in Gloucestershire , Wiltshire , Hampshire and Herefordshire as well as the offices of Sheriff of Gloucestershire and Constable of Gloucester Castle .

He was a loyal follower of King Henry I and was considered one of his most experienced administrators. In 1109 he became constable of the royal castle Carmarthen Castle in South Wales, which was built in 1105 . In South West Wales he built Caldicot Castle , which became the center of his rule Caldicote with lands in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and in the Welsh Marches .

Around 1126 he entered the Augustinian priory of Llantony in south-west Wales as an old man as a monk , where he was buried.

He married Berta and his son Miles became his heir .

literature

  • Katherine SB Keats-Rohan: Domesday people: a prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166 . Boydell, Woodbridge 2002. ISBN 978-0-85115-722-1 , p. 451
  • David Walker: Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford . In: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1958, Vol. 77, pp. 68-84, online; 221 KB

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Walker: Medieval Wales . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990. ISBN 978-0-521-31153-3 , p. 36
  2. ^ David Walker: The Honors of the Earls of Hereford in the Twelfth Century . In: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 79 (1960), p. 174
  3. ^ David Walker: Gloucester and Gloucestershire in Domesday Book . In: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 94 (1976), p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Walter de Gloucester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter FitzRoger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norman knight and sheriff of Gloucestershire
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1129
Place of death Llantony Abbey, South Wales