Walter I GIFFARD, Seigneur Of Longueville

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• Alt. Death: 1085; Alt. Death

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Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Buckingham, p.387). He had a son, another Walter Giffard, who d.s.p. 1164. His dau. ROHESE was his heiress and brought the Giffard estates into the Clare family upon her marriage. For a more detailed account of the Battle of Mortremer, in which Walter was one of the leaders, see the notes on HUGH DE GOURNAY III (RIN 6715). Sandy McDougall posted to the soc.genealogy.medieval on1 Jul 1996: Subject: WALTER GIFFARD-BUCKINGHAM WALTER GIFFARD of Longueville in Normandy (where he held a substantial fief) was with the Conqueror at Hastings and received from him a large fief in England, mainly in Buckingham, but of this there is no proof (he is recorded in Domesday as holding one of a group of ten fiefs aggregating L5,000 per annum. Orderic II. 49 says "Walter Giffard was given the Earldom of Buckinghamshire by the Conqueror." The relative dates in Orderic's record, if these be properly placed, are 1071-1080, which would be within the lifetime of Walter I. When Orderic wrote of this period Walter Giffard II was an Earl, and the original grant may have been antedated by the annalist). He is said to have died late in the Conqueror's reign, leaving a son and heir Walter II.

Walter married Agnes FLATEL about 1025 in France. Agnes (daughter of Gerard FLATEL) was born about 1014 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alt. Death: Aft 1133; Alt. Death

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He [Richard FitzGilbert de Clare] married Rohese, daughter of Walter GIFFARD, the elder, and aunt and heir of Walter [GIFFARD], 2nd Earl of Buckingham, through which match his descendants became co-heirs to the lands of that family. He was living 1081, but appears to have died about 1090 being buried at St. Neots, co. Huntingdon. His widow was living, as such, 1113. [Complete Peerage III:242, XIV:183, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Family/Spouse: Richard De CLARE. Richard (son of Gilbert and Gunnora D'AUNOU) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was heir to the English possessions of his father. By King HENRY I, 1107-77, he was also granted the Lordship of Cardigan. He is the common ancestor of the two powerful Clare families - the Earls of Hertford and Gloucester and the Earls of Pembroke.

Gilbert married Adeliza De CLERMONT before 1090. Adeliza (daughter of Hugh I De CREIL and Margaret De MONTDIDIER) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Alberic II De VERE. Alberic (son of Alberic I De VERE and Beatrice) was born in in Drayton &, Great Addington, Co. Northampton, England; died on 15 May 1141 in London, Middlesexshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]