Robert fitz Walter of Horsham
Robert fitz Walter, lord of Horsham was an English nobleman who served as the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Biography[edit]
Robert's father, Walter de Caen (aka Walter de Cadomo, Walter fitz Alberic or Walter de Huntingfield), had been a Domesday Book tenant of Robert Malet, and had, in addition to Robert, two other sons, Ralph and Roger, ancestor of the Huntingfields.[1]
Robert fitz Walter served as Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk between 1115 and 1129 and again in 1135.[citation needed] He and his wife Sybil founded the Benedictine Horsham St. Faith Priory in 1105.[2]
Marriage and issue[edit]
Robert married firstly Sybil, the daughter of Ralph de Chesney,[3] they had the following children:[2]
- Margaret, married Hamo de St. Clair.
- Simon
- Roger
- John, Sheriff of Suffolk and also probably Norfolk, successor to his father. He and his brother William supported the Angevins against King Stephen.[4] John had died without issue before 1149, when his younger brother William confirmed John's foundation of Sibton Abbey.[5]
- William de Chesney, married Gilla, had issue.[4]
Robert married secondly Aveline, daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin and widow of Alan fitz Flaad of Dol. They had two further children:[2]
- Elias
- Peter
Citations[edit]
- ^ Keats-Rohan 1999a, p. 499.
- ^ a b c Keats-Rohan 1999b, pp. 363–364.
- ^ Keats-Rohan 1999b, p. 369.
- ^ a b Keats-Rohan 1999b, p. 370.
- ^ Keats-Rohan 1999b, p. 363.
References[edit]
- Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. (1999a). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: I. Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-722-X.
- Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. (1999b). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: II. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-863-3.