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]