Walter de Salisbury

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Walter of Salisbury, also styled Walter Fitz Edward and Walter the Sheriff, son and heir of Edward, was sheriff of Wiltshire under Henry I, but lost the office for a time during Henry I's reign. In 1130, he was acquitted of £ Danegeld in Doreset and £7 in Wiltshire. He was present at the Council of Northampton, Sep 1131, with Stephen at Westminster at Easter of 1136, and at Salibury at Christmas 1139. Walter founded the Priory of Bradenstock, Wiltshire, and was a benefactor of Salisbury Cathedral.

He married Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (Chaworth) and Maud, daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin. Sibyl died before her husband and was buried near the quire in Bradenstoke. He took the habit of a cannon there, and died in 1147, and was buried with his wife.

Walter and Sibyl had three sons, William, the eldest and heir; second son Patrick, who was the heir to his brother William; and Walter, a canon of Bradenstoke. His daughter, named Sibyl, married, as his second wife, John Fitz Gilbert, also known as John the Marshal.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Salisbury), Vol. VXII, p 374-375

Walter married Sibyl de Chaurces, daughter of Patrice de Cadurcis and Maud de Hesdin. (Sibyl de Chaurces was born about 1082 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England, died before 1147 in Wiltshire, England ¹⁴¹ and was buried before 1147 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England ¹⁴¹.)