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Name: Robert FITZ WALTER, Leader Of MC Barons
Sex: M
Death: 9 Dec 1235 ^d
Burial: Dumow Priory, Essex ^u

Parents:

Father:
Walter FITZ ROBERT, Baron Of Little Dunmow Birth: Before 1134 Death: 1198

Mother:

Maud De LUCY, Lady Of Diss Death: After Abt 1175

Family:
Marriage:

Gunnor De VALOINES on Before 13 Oct 1199 .^m1
Gunnor De VALOINES Death: After 1208

Children:

Maud FITZ ROBERT Birth: 1 Death: Abt 1212
Christine FITZ ROBERT Birth: 2 Death: Abt 17 Jun 1232
(Unk son) FITZ ROBERT Death: After 1217

Marriage:

Rohese on After 27 Dec 1207 .^m2
Rohese Death: 1256

Children:

Sir Walter FITZ ROBERT, Baron Of Little Dunmow Birth: Abt 1219 Death: Before 10 Apr 1258

Bibliography

Bevan, Rosie, Corrections to K. S. B. Keats-Rohan's Domesday Series, Volume II: Domesday Descendants. Version 7, 25 Sep 2005. Available at http://www.fmg.ac/Projects/Domesday/ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bevan DD++ p[0-9]*].
Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 05 E-Goojerat. London: St Catherine Press, 1926. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP V [Ap][p0-9].*].
Phillips, Chris, Proposed Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage, http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cp/index.shtml Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP++(proposed) .*].
Clutterbuck, Robert, History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27, v1-3. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/188626. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v[1-3]p[0-9]*].
Richardson, Douglas, Descendants of Sir Richard de Lucy and Rohese of Boulogne. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 7/29/2005. Subject: Descendants of Sir Richard de Lucy and Rohese of Boulogne. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/F9_d7JZUuk0/m/5jgR9n064yQJ. Author address: royalancestry at msn dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/29/2005-174625].
Ravilious, John, Descent from Eustace II of Boulogne to Eleanor de Furnival. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 6/16/2005. Subject: Eleanor de Furnival, wife of Richard de Brewes. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/nqN9a18rNUk/m/uNHIK7MRTB0J. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 6/16/2005-163829].
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
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Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States: who were themselves notable or left descendants notable in American history, with a 2008 Addendum, Coda, and Final Additions. Baltimore, MD: Gen Pub Co, 2008. NYPL APK 08-4216. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Roberts RD600 p[0-9]*].
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Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and their Ancestry, Oxford:John Johnson, 1928. LDS Film#1696491 items 6-9. NYPL ARZ+ (Wallop) (Watney, V. J. Wallop family). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/213421. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Watney WALLOP #[0-9]*].
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Weis, Frederick L, Magna Charta Sureties 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta and Some of Their Descendants. 4th Ed. Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1991. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis MC #[0-9][0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

parents:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p767, CP V p472(f), Clutterbuck Hertford v2p422, John Ravilious SGM 6/16/2005-163829, Keats-Rohan DD p950, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p645, Roberts RD600 p566, Roberts RD600 p569, Roberts USPres p196, Watney WALLOP #405, Weis AR7 #148],
father:: [Ref: Sanders Baronies p129]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: CP V p472(f), Richardson RoyalAnc v2p649, Watney WALLOP #405, Weis AR7 #148]; 1234 [Ref: Burke Peerage p767]; 1234, 19 H III [Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v2p277]; 1235 [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 6/16/2005-163829, Keats-Rohan DD p759, Sanders Baronies p129, Sanders Baronies p12, Sanders Baronies p71(7)]

Sources for burial Information

place:: [Ref: CP V p472(f), Clutterbuck Hertford v2p277, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p649]

Sources with Information about marriage to Gunnor De VALOINES

date:: before 1199 [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/29/2005-174625]; before 1199, as second marraige of Gunnor [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p759]; before 13 Oct 1199 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p647]; by 1199 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p12],
names:: [Ref: Sanders Baronies p130(1)],
child:: [Ref: Bevan DD++ p754, CP V p127, CP V p132, Clutterbuck Hertford v2p277, Clutterbuck Hertford v2p422, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p514, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p515, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p647, Sanders Baronies p12(9)]

Sources with Information about marriage to Rohese

date:: after 27 Dec 1207 [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 7/29/2005-174625]; second marriage of Robert [Ref: CP V p472(f), Clutterbuck Hertford v2p422, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p647],
child:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p767, CP V p472(f), Douglas Richardson SGM 7/29/2005-174625, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p647, Watney WALLOP #405, Weis AR7 #148, Weis MC #50]

Research Notes:
of Little Dumnow, Burnham, and Woodham Walter, Essex, and in right of his 1st wife, of Almshoe (in Ippollitts), Ashwell, Benington, Hertingfordbury, King's Walden,Radwell, and Sacombe, Hertfordshire, Bourn, Gamlingay, Teversham, and Westley (in Westley Waterless), Cambridgeshire, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p646]
of Little Dumnow, Burnham, and Woodham Walter, Essex [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p514]
of Little Dunmow [Ref: Sanders Baronies p12]
of Daventre [Ref: CP V p250(c)]
of Woodham Walter, Essex [Ref: CP V p127, CP V p472(f)]

heir of his father [Ref: CP V p472(f), Richardson RoyalAnc v2p647]

inherited Barony of Little Dunmow from father [Ref: Sanders Baronies p129]

Constale of Hertford Castle [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p514, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p647]

1204: coheir to lands at Lesnes, Kent, formerly held by his uncle, Godfrey de Lucy, Bishop of Winchester [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p647]

Lord of Dunmow Castle [Ref: Weis MC #50]

Lord of Castle Baynard in London [Ref: Sanders Baronies p129(8)]

Magna Carta Baron [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p514]

Leader of the barons who revolted against King John in 1215 and obtained the Magna Charta [Ref: Roberts RD600 p566, Weis AR7 #148]

after his death, the barony of Benington was divided between Lora, Christiana, and Isabel, daughters and coheirs of William de Valoynes (who d. 1219) [Ref: Sanders Baronies p12]

Pedigree of Robert FITZ WALTER, Leader Of MC Barons
                                                                /-----Hrolfr (Rollo) Duke Of Normandy
                                                       /-----William Longspee Duke Of Normandy
                                                      |         \-----Poppa
                                              /-----Richard I The Fearless Duke Of Normandy
                                             |         \-----Espriota
                                     /-----Godfrey Count Of Brionne
                                    |        |         /-----(Unk) Forquelar Of Cirques
                                    |         \-----Gunnora
                            /-----Gilbert Count Of Brionne
                   /-----Richard FITZ GILBERT De CLARE, Baron Of Clare
          /-----Robert FITZ RICHARD, Baron Of Little Dunmow
         |        |                  /-----Osbern De Bolbec, Seigneur Of Longueville
         |        |         /-----Walter Giffard Lord Of Longueville
         |        |        |        |         /-----(Unk) Forquelar Of Cirques
         |        |        |         \-----Wevie
         |         \-----Rohese GIFFARD
         |                 |         /-----Gerard De FLEITELL
         |                  \-----Ermengarde FLATEL
/-----Walter FITZ ROBERT, Baron Of Little Dunmow
|        |                  /-----Ranulph Le Rich
|        |         /-----Simon De St. LIZ, Earl Of Huntingdon
|         \-----Maud De ST LIZ
|                 |                                             /-----Spratlingus
|                 |                                    /-----Ulsius
|                 |                           /-----Beorn
|                 |                  /-----Sigurd Digera Earl Of Northumbria
|                 |         /-----Waltheof II Earl Of Huntingdon
|                 |        |        |                           /-----Waltheof Earl Of Northumberland
|                 |        |        |                  /-----Uchtred Earl Of Northumberland
|                 |        |        |         /-----Ealdred Of Bernicia
|                 |        |        |        |        |         /-----Ealdhun Bishop Of Durham
|                 |        |        |        |         \-----Ecfrida
|                 |        |         \-----Aelflaed
|                  \-----Maud Of Huntingdon
|                          |                                    /-----Arnulf Count Of Boulogne
|                          |                           /-----Baldwin Count Of Boulogne
|                          |                  /-----Eustace I Count Of Boulogne
|                          |                 |        |         /-----Arnulf Count Of Holland And Ghent
|                          |                 |         \-----Adela Of Holland
|                          |                 |                  \-----Luitgard Of Luxembourg
|                          |         /-----Lambert Of Boulogne, Count Of Lens
|                          |        |        |                  /-----Regnier III Count Of Hainaut
|                          |        |        |         /-----Lambert I The Bearded Count Of Louvain
|                          |        |        |        |         \-----Adele Of Louvain
|                          |        |         \-----Maud Of Louvain
|                          |        |                 |         /-----Charles Duke Of Lower Lorraine
|                          |        |                  \-----Gerberga Of Lorraine
|                          |        |                           \-----Adelheid Of Ardennes
|                           \-----Judith Of Lens
|                                   |                           /-----Richard I The Fearless Duke Of Normandy
|                                   |                  /-----Richard II The Good Duke Of Normandy
|                                   |                 |         \-----Gunnora
|                                   |         /-----Robert I The Devil Duke Of Normandy
|                                   |        |        |         /-----Conan I Duke Of Brittany
|                                   |        |         \-----Judith Of Brittany
|                                   |        |                  \-----Ermengarde Of Anjou
|                                    \-----Adelaide Of Normandy
|                                            |         /-----Fulbert Of Falaise
|                                             \-----Herleve Of Falaise
|                                                      \-----Duxia
Robert FITZ WALTER, Leader Of MC Barons
|         /-----Sir Richard De LUCY, Justiciar Of England
|        |         \-----Avelina
\-----Maud De LUCY, Lady Of Diss
         |                                                      /-----Arnulf Count Of Boulogne
         |                                             /-----Baldwin Count Of Boulogne
         |                                    /-----Eustace I Count Of Boulogne
         |                                   |        |         /-----Arnulf Count Of Holland And Ghent
         |                                   |         \-----Adela Of Holland
         |                                   |                  \-----Luitgard Of Luxembourg
         |                           /-----Eustace II Count Of Boulogne
         |                          |        |                  /-----Regnier III Count Of Hainaut
         |                          |        |         /-----Lambert I The Bearded Count Of Louvain
         |                          |        |        |         \-----Adele Of Louvain
         |                          |         \-----Maud Of Louvain
         |                          |                 |         /-----Charles Duke Of Lower Lorraine
         |                          |                  \-----Gerberga Of Lorraine
         |                          |                           \-----Adelheid Of Ardennes
         |                  /-----Goisfred Lord Of Carshalton
         |         /-----William De BOULOGNE
         |        |        |         /-----Geoffrey De MANDEVILLE, Baron Of Pleshy
         |        |         \-----Beatrice De MANDEVILLE
         |        |                  \-----Athelaise
          \-----Rohese

Descendants of Robert FITZ WALTER, Leader Of MC Barons

1. Robert FITZ WALTER, Leader Of MC Barons m1. Gunnor De VALOINES m2. Rohese

m. Gunnor De VALOINES father: Robert De VALOINES, Baron Of Bennington mother: Hadvisa

2 Maud FITZ ROBERT m. Geoffrey De Mandeville, Earl Of Essex; Geoffrey De Mandeville, Earl Of Essex father: Geoffrey FITZ PIERS, Earl Of Essex mother: Beatrice De SAY

3 Christine FITZ ROBERT m1. William De Mandeville, Earl Of Essex m2. Raymond De BURGH

4 (Unk son) FITZ ROBERT

m. Rohese

5+ Sir Walter FITZ ROBERT, Baron Of Little Dunmow m. Ida LONGSPEE

2nd generation

5. Sir Walter FITZ ROBERT, Baron Of Little Dunmow m. Ida LONGSPEE

m. Ida LONGSPEE father: William LONGESPEE, Earl of Salisbury mother: Ela Of Salisbury

6 Katherine FITZ WALTER

7 Lora FITZ WALTER