Gerard Fitz Walter Constable of Pembroke Castle

   Another name for Gerard was Gerard de Windsor.

  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

  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:
MauriceWilliam, 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

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