Walter FitzRobert , Lord of Dunmow Castle 
Walter was born about 1120 in Little Dunmow, Essex, England. Walter's father was Robert FitzRichard , Lord of Dunmow and his mother was Maud de St. Liz. He had a sister named Maud. He was the older of the two children. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Robert de and Alice de. He died in 1198 in Woodham Walter, Malden, Essex, England. He was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex, England.General Notes
Walter Fitz Robert; feudal Lord of Woodham Walter, Essex. [Burke's Peerage]
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Walter FitzRobert, in the 12th of Henry II, upon the assessment in aid of marrying the king's dau., certified his knights' 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 m. 1st, Margaret de Bohun, who d. in 1146; and 2ndly in 1148, Maud de Lucy, with whom he had the lordship of Dis, in Norfolk, and by whom he left at his decease, 1198, a son, Robert FitzWalter. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 212, FitzWalter, Barons FitzWalter]
Walter and Maud de were married in a religious ceremony in 1148 in 2nd wife. They had a son and two daughters, named Robert, Alice and Maud.
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Robert FitzWalter , Lord of Dunmow Castle, MCS
Robert was born about 1167 in Woodham Walter, Malden, Essex, England. He died on December 9th, 1235 in Siege of Damietta, Egypt. He was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex, England.
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