Walter Fitz Otho

   Another name for Walter was Walter de Windsor.

  General Notes:

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, Part 1, 1862 edition, pg. 483, Walter Fitz Otho, recorded in the Domesday Book, was appointed, by William the Conqueror, Castellan of Windsor. ⁷⁴⁰

K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, Vol. II, Keats-Rohan has him as Walter Filius Other, a norman tenant-in-chief, keeper of the forest of Windsor and castellan of Windsor castle, he and his heirs were surnamed de Windsore, p. 455

Domesday tenant in chief. Castellan of Windsor castle.

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁷
Walter, at the time of the general survey by William the Conqueror, was Castellan of Winsor, Warden of the forests in Berkshire and possessed serveral Lordships in the counties of Middlesex, Hants and Bucks that Dominus Otherus is said to have held in the time of Edward the Confessor.

Walter's eldest son and heir was William who took his father's surname Windsor. His second son was Gerard of whom the Gerards and other families descended.

~Edward Kimber's and Richard Johnson's The Baronetage of England, 1771 Edition, Vol. I, pg. 31

• Background Information. ⁷³⁹
Walter Fitz Otho married Gladys, the daughter of Rywall ap Conyn, by whom he had three sons, Gerald, Robert and William. Robert was baron of Eston or Estaines in Essex; he was succeeded by his son William, who left a daughter, the wife of Robert de Hastings, and their daughter Delicia, was wife of Henry de Cornhill, whose only child, Jane, married Sir Godfrey de Lovaine, lord of Lovaine, and was the mother of Sir Matthew who held the manor of Eston by barony.

~Rev. William Betham's The Baronetage of England, 1801 Edition, Vol. I, pg. 59

• Background Information. ⁷⁴¹
Walter Fitz Ortho's wife was of Welsh Blood. With Gladys, the daughter of Rywall ap Conan, he had three sons.

~History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, pg. 117

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Walter Fitz Other of Windsor, a Domesday tenant of lands in Berks, Bucks, Middlesex, Hants and Surrey, held a barony owing 15 or 20 knights' fees to the castle guard of Windsor, where he was Keeper of the Great Forest and castellan of the castle. He married Beatrice. He was living in or after 1100.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X. (Offaly), p. 10

• Background Information. ⁹⁹¹
Walter Fitz Otho is mentioned in the Domesday Book as being in possession of his father's estates. he was Castellan of Windsor and Warden of the forests of Berkshire. He married Gladys, daughter of Rhiwallon ap Cynvyn, Prince of North Wales, and had three sons:

Gerald Fitz Walter
Robert, sunamed "de Windsor," Baron of Eston, in Essex.
William, also named "de Windsor," ancestor of the family of Windsor.

~ The Earls of Kildare, p.2

Walter married Gwladus verch Rhiwallon, daughter of Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn of Powys and Unknown. (Gwladus verch Rhiwallon was born about 1052 in Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales.)