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. His paternal grandparents were Richard FitzGilbert 1st Earl de Clare and Rohese Giffard; his maternal grandparents were Simon I de St. Liz , Earl of Huntingdon and Matilda de Huntingdon. He had a sister named Maud. He was the older of the two children. He had a half-brother named Robert 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]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0980 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 1009 in Eu, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1075 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1134 in Little Dunmow, Essex, England
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1084 in France
- b.~ 1036 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133
- b.~ 1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 1120 in Little Dunmow, Essex, England d.1198 in Woodham Walter, Malden, Essex, England
- b.~ 1018 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1046 in Normandy, France d.1111 in Priory of La Charite-Sur-Loir, Nievre, France
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- b.1093 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1140 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1036 in Northumberland, England d.31 May 1076 in Beheaded at Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.1072 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England d.23 Apr 1131 in Scotland
- b.1054 in Lens, Artois, France d.> 1086
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