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Otho de Windsor
(-After 1057)
Beatrice
Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn of Powys
(-1063)
Walter Fitz Otho
(Abt 1037-After 1078)
Gwladus verch Rhiwallon
(Abt 1052-)
Gerard Fitz Walter Constable of Pembroke Castle
(1065/1070-Abt 1136)

 

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Nest verch Rhys Princess of Deheubarth

Gerard Fitz Walter Constable of Pembroke Castle

  • Born: 1065-1070, Windsor, Berkshire, England
  • Marriage: Nest verch Rhys Princess of Deheubarth 141,739,1092
  • Died: Abt 1136, England about age 71

bullet   Another name for Gerard was Gerard de Windsor.727

bullet  General Notes:


~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Gerard Pedigree, pg. 131, of Hawarden, Flint, England, lived at the time of John and Henry III. 713

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VII, "The Geraldine" pedigree chart, p. 200, married to Nest of Wales.141

~Visitations of the County of Devon, p.133, Giraldus de Windsor, second son, Constable of Pembroke, to whom King Henry I gave the manor of Moulesfor in Berkshire. He married Nesta, daughter of Rees ap Theodor Maur, Prince of Wales. Nesta also had children with Henry I.

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bullet  Information about this person:

• Background Information. 727
Gerard, of whom the Gerards and other families descended, is sometimes called Gerard de Windsor or Gerard Fitz Walter. He was the son of Walter de Windsor. His wife was named Nefta, the daughter of Rees, son of Theodor the Great, Prince of South Wales. They had three sons, William, Maurice and David.

William, son and heir.

• David became the Bishop of St. Davids in 1148 and died in 1176.

Maurice Fitz Gerald
, the second son, was one of the adventurers with Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke in his conquest of Ireland in 1170. He and Robert Fitz Stephen landed two years before and took Weishford, the first colony of English settled in Ireland. Maurice became the ancestor to serval noble families which flourished in that kindom, particularly the Earls of Kildare.

~The Baronetage of England, Vol. I, pgs. 31-32

• Background Information. 741
Gerard had a grant from King Henry I of Moleford in Berkshire, and because he served against the Welsh, was made the Norman Constable of Pembroke Castle. He strengthened this fortress and successfully defrended it. He killed the Welsh Lord of Chieftain of Cardiganshire, and was then appointed the President of the county of Pembroke. He was rewarded with the grant of many lands in Wales. He settled in Wales, and like his father, married a native, Nesta, daughter of the Prince of South Wales. Nesta had been the mistress of King Henry.

~History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, pg. 117

• Background Information. 141
Gerald, younger son of Walter and Beatrice, was constable, under Arnulf de Montgomery, of his castle of Pembroke, and successfully defended it when besieged by the Welsh in 1092. In 1095 he led a military expedition against the Welsh on the borders of what is now Pembrokeshire, and in 1100 went to Ireland to demand for Arnulf the daughter of King Murrough in marriage. Arnulf was deprived of his estates and exiled by Henry I in 1102, and the King granted the custody of Pembroke Castle to Gerald.

Gerald Fitz Walter of Windsor married Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales. The date of his death is not known, presumably before 1136.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, pp. 10-11

• Background Information. 991
Gerald Fitz Walter was appointed by Henry I as constable of Pembroke Castle, and was sent in command of English forces against the Welsh. he was afterwards made "President" of the County of Pembroke. Gerald married Nesta, the daughter of Rhys ap Gruffydh ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales. By Nesta, he had three sons:
Maurice
William, ancestor of the families of Carew, Grace, Fitz marice and Gerard.
David, consecrated in 1147 Bishop of St. David's. He died in 1176.

~ The Earls of Kildare, pp. 4-5

• Background Information. 1209
Walter de Winsor, son of Other, which had issue William (from whom the Lords Windsor are desended), & Gerald de Windesore, Castellan & Steward of Pembroke. Gerald married Nesta, daughter of Rees, Prince of South Wales, by whom he had issue William, Maurice (from whom are issued the Earls of Kildare & Defmond), & David Bishop of Saint David's.

~"Carew's Pedigree," Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, p. 129


Gerard married Nest verch Rhys Princess of Deheubarth, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr Prince of South Wales and Gwladus verch Rhiwallon 141,739.,1092 (Nest verch Rhys Princess of Deheubarth was born about 1073 in Dynevor, Wales.)


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