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[[Category:Battle of Falkirk]]
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== Biography ==Sir Robert FitzWalter, 1st Lord FitzWalter, Baron of Little Dunmow, Constable of Bere & Hadleigh Castle, Justice of Essex was born in 1247 at Henham, Essex, England.[Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 327.][Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 206-208.][Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 27-29.][Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 650-652.][Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 580-581.]
=== Marriage & Children ===:Sir Robert FitzWalter married, firstly, Devorguilla de Burgh, daughter of Sir John de Burgh, Baron Lanville & Walkern and Cecily de Baliol, in 1259. They had 1 son & 2 daughters:[Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 578.][Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 500.][Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 288.][Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 457.]
# Walter
# Christian, wife of William le Marshal, 1st Lord Marshal
# Blanche, a nun at Barking Abbey
:He married, secondly, Alianore de Ferrers, daughter of Sir Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl Derby and Alianore de Bohun, before 11 March 1290 at King's Chapel in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England. They had 1 son & 3 daughters:[Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 155.][Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 568.][Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 307.]
# Sir Robert# Ida, wife of Sir Robert de la Warde, Lord Warde & of Sir Hugh, 1st Lord Neville of Essex
# Denise
# Mary
:Sir Robert FitzWalter and Alice de Montfort obtained a marriage license circa 10 May 1308.[Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 136.][The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 474.]
===Lands===Douglas Richardson describes Robert as "of Woodham Walter, Little Dunmow, Burnham, Henham, Roydon, Sheering, Shopland, Tey, Theydon, and Wimbish, Essex, Diss and Hempnall, Norfolk, Shimpling, Suffolk, etc.... and in right of his 1st wife, of Great Bromley, Great Hallingbury, and Lexden, Essex, Datchworth and Walkern, Hertfordshire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Finedon, Northamptonshire, etc."[Douglas Richardson, ''Royal Ancestry,'' volume II, pages 651-654 FITZ WALTER 8.][Douglas Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' (2011), volume II, pages 206-209 FITZ WALTER 3, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&printsec=copyright&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=devorguille&f=false Google Books].]
=== Death ===:Sir Robert FitzWalter died on 18 January 1326 at of Diss & Hempnall, Norfolk, England.
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. II p. 651-654
*Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. II p. 206-209
See Also:
* Blomefield, Francis. ''[[Space:An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk|An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk]]'' (W. Miller, Norfolk, England, 1739)::* [https://books.google.com/books?id=AVgMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false Vol. 1, Page 4-5]: "Son and Heir then ten Years old (at time of father's death), who was Knighted in 1274." Stephen Fitz-Walter (his Uncle?) was his "Guardian and Trustee". "In 1293, he was summoned to attend King Edward I. into Gascoign, in order to recover his Inheritance from the French King, to which Place he went, in the Retinue of [[Plantagenet-562|Edmund Earl of Lancaster]]. In 1296 he was in the Welsh Expedition, and in 1299, in the Scotch Wars... (He) alien'd [[Wikipedia:Baynard%27s_Castle|Baniard's Castle]] in London, and [[Wikipedia:Montfichet%27s_Tower|Montfitchet Tower]] to the [[Wikipedia:Archbishop_of_Canterbury|Archbishop of Canterbury]], reserving his Barony that belonged to it, to himself and his Heirs. He was the first of this Family that stil'd himself Lord of Wodeham in Essex, where he had a Seat and a fine Park. He had two Wives, [[De_Burgh-155|Devorgil]]... and [[Ferrers-148|Eleanor]]...by whom he had [[Fitzwalter-18|Robert]] his Son who succeeded him: In this Year he obtained a Charter of Confirmation for a Fair every Year at his Manor of Diss, upon the Eve, Day, and Morrow, after the [https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2013-10-28 Feast of St. Simon and Jude], and three Days following: He was one of those Parliamentary Barons that sealed the Letter to the Pope, Anno 1301, denying that the Kingdom of Scotland was his Fee... It seems as if the Church of [[Wikipedia:Diss|Diss]] was built by this Man, his Arms cut in Stone still remaining several Times on the South Porch."
* Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:Baron_FitzWalter|Baron FitzWalter]]* Richardson, Douglas. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for ''[[Space:Magna Carta Ancestry|Magna Carta Ancestry]].''
== Acknowledgements ==
=== Magna Carta Project ===: {{Name}} is the grandson of [[:Category: Surety Barons|surety baron]] [[FitzWalter-101|Robert FitzWalter]]; descendants documented in Douglas Richardson's 2011 ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' (volume II, pages 206-215 FITZ WALTER 3) include [[:Category: Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestors]] [[Bladen-4|William Bladen]], [[Bromfield-23|Edward Bromfield]], and [[Dade-7|Francis Dade]] (II:210, footnote), [[Nelson-804|John]] and [[Nelson-7430|Margaret]] Nelson (II:215, footnote 136), and others.* '''Needs Development''': This profile was adopted 10 October 2020 by the [[Project: Magna Carta |Magna Carta Project]] and does not yet meet project standards (see the project's [[Space:Magna Carta Project Checklist|checklist]]). A trail through this profile has also not yet been developed. ~ [[Noland-165|Noland-165]] 06:41, 10 October 2020 (UTC)* '''Needs Source Check''': This profile's Richardson citations appear to be copied from Marlyn Lewis's database and need to be verified/updated. ~ [[Noland-165|Noland-165]] 06:41, 10 October 2020 (UTC) : See [[Space:Magna_Carta_Team_Base_Camp|Base Camp]] for information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's [[Space:Magna Carta Project Glossary|glossary]] for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
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1247 - 1326 (79 years)
