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Other
(Abt 1020-)
Beatrice
Walter FitzOther of Stanwell
(Abt 1045-1100)
Gwladys verch Ryall
Gerald de Windsor
(-Bef 1136)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Nest verch Rhys

Gerald de Windsor 1

  • Marriage (1): Nest verch Rhys about 1095
  • Died: Bef 1136 2

   Other names for Gerald were Gerald FitzWalter and Gerald de Wyndesore.

  Research Notes:

From Wikipedia - Gerald de Windsor :

Gerald de Windsor, also known as Gerald FitzWalter, was the nobleman in charge of the Norman forces in Wales in the late 11th century.

Gerald was the son of Walter FitzOtho and Gwladys ferch Ryall , married Nest of Deheubarth , daughter of Prince Rhys ap Tewdwr and Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon , around c. 1095.

Gerald held the office of Constable of Pembroke Castle from 1102 , was granted the manor of Moulsford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire ) by the King and built a motte and bailey castle at Carew in Pembrokeshire .

He had five children with Nesta:
William (died 1173), Father of Raymond Fitzgerald
Maurice FitzGerald (born c. 1100, died 1 September 1176 ) and
David FitzGerald , Bishop of St David's (died c. 1176)[1],
Angharad
possibly Gwladys

  Noted events in his life were:

• Constable: of Pembroke Castle, 1102.

• Granted: the manor of Moulsford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) by the King.

• Built: a motte and bailey castle at Carew in Pembrokeshire.


Gerald married Nest verch Rhys, daughter of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr Prince of South Wales and Gwladus verch Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn of Powys, about 1095. (Nest verch Rhys died after 1136.)


Sources


1 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Gerald de Windsor.

2 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 178-2 (Nest).


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