Walter Fitz Robert

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 8th Edition, 130:28, 148:26, Walter Fitz Robert of Little Dunmow, Essex, was married to Maud de Bohun, his first wife, and Maud de Lucy, his second wife. He was the father of Maud who married William Luvetot. ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁸²⁹
Walter Fitz Robert, son of Robert Fitz Richard and Maud de St. Liz, who in 12 Henry II, upon the assessment in aid of marrying the King's daughter, certified his knight's fees to be in number, sixty-three and a half, de Veteri Feoffamento ; and three and a fourth part, de Novo, for all of which he paid £44. 10s. In the great controversy between John, Earl of Moreton, (brother of King Richard,) and William de Longcamp, bishop of Ely, whom the king left governor of the realm during his absence in the Holy Land, this Walter adhered to the bishop and had, at that time, custody of the castle of Eye, in Suffolk. He married, as his first wife, Maud de Lacy, with whom he had the Lordship of Dis, in Norfolk. His second wife was Margaret de Bohun. He died in 1198.

~ A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland: Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance, 1831 edition, p. 208

  Information about this person:

• Background Information: From The Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 7. ³⁸⁸
Robert Fitz Walter (died 1235), baronial leader, lord of Dunmow and Baynard's Castle, was the son of Walter Fitz Robert, by his wife Matilda, daughter of Richard de Lucy, the faithful justiciar of Henry II. Walter was the son of Robert, steward of Henry I, to whom the king had granted the lordship of Dunmow and of the honour or soke of Baynard's Castle in the southwest angle of the city of London, both of which had become forfeited to the crown by William Baynard.

Walter married Maud de Lucy, daughter of Richard "The Loyal" de Lucy Justiciar of England and Rohese de Boulogne.⁸²⁹