Walter le Ewrus

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Walter le Ewrus is the - probably invented - ancestor of the Earls of Salisbury and the second Earl of Lincoln (see First House Salisbury ).

The book by Lacock , which was probably written in the middle of the 14th century on the history of Lacock Abbey and the family of its founder Ela of Salisbury († 1261), is the only source that Walter le Ewrus names: He was Count of Roumare in the Duchy Was Normandy , who came to England with William the Conqueror and received control of Salisbury and Amesbury there; in Normandy he was the father of Gerold Mantelec, Earl of Roumare, in England the father of Edward of Salisbury .

Research agrees that the epithet le Ewrus can be read as a medieval form of l'Heureux (the lucky one). Nevertheless, later authors turned it into Walter de Ewrus and then Walter d'Évreux , thus paving the way to establish an origin from Évreux , if not a kinship with the Counts of Évreux and thus the Norman ducal family and thus also in the To serve families of the English Devereux as ancestors.

Also Père Anselme lists him as "Gautier de Rosmar" in his Histoire généalogique (1726) and assigns him as the fourth son of Count Robert of Evreux , archbishop of Rouen (after Earl Richard of Evreux , Raoul de Gacé and William of Evreux) , but with the note that this is (incorrectly) done by some other authors.

literature

  • William Lisle Bowles , John Gough Nichols, Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey , London 1835, online
  • Geoffrey H. White, The Complete Peerage , 2nd Edition, Volume XI (1949)
  • Père Anselme, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grand officiers de la couronne & de la maison du roy & des anciens barons du royaume, 3rd edition 1726, volume 2.

Remarks

  1. ^ Fictitious in The Complete Peerage, Volume XI, p. 373.
  2. ↑ Erat quidam miles strenuus Normannus, Walterus le Ewrus, Comes de Rosmar, qui proper probitatem suam Rex Guil. Conq. dedit totum dominium des Saresburia et Ambresburia. Antequam is Walterus le Ewrus in Angliam venit, genuit Geroldum, Comitem de Rosmar, Mantelec, qui genuit Guillelmus de Rosmar le Gros, qui genuit Guil. de Rosmar le Meschyn, secundum, qui genuit Guillelmum, tertium de Rosmar, qui obiit sine liberis. - Postquam Walterus le Ewrus genuit Edwardum, natione Anglicum natum ... , Bowles, Nichols (1835), Appendix I, p. I
  3. ↑ The Complete Peerage also states that Edward's parents are unknown.
  4. ↑ cf. Anglo-Norman Dictionary "eurus" and Middle English Dictionary "eurǒus"
  5. ↑ Bowles / Nichols, p. 39 ff.
  6. ↑ z. B. Pierre Le Brasseur (* 1680) in his Histoire civile et ecclésiastique du comté d'Évreux , Paris 1722.
  7. ↑ In Pére Anselme: "4. Gautier de Rosmar est mis ici par quelques auteurs, (M. le Brasseur hist. Du comté d'Evreux en 1722) qui le font le chef des seigneurs de Salisbury en Angleterre, depuis comtes d'Essex ; mais ils descendent de Guillaume dit Longue épée, batard du roi Henry II .; & les Comtes d'Essex de Guillaume dit d'Evreux, vivant en 1223 ", Histoire généalogique, p. 478.