Walter FITZ OTHO

Abt 1050 - Aft 1100  (51 years)

• Name	Walter FITZ OTHO  [1, 3]
  	After the Conquest in 1066, he was treated by the Normans as one of their fellow-countrymen, a fact which seems somewhat remarkable, and he was mentioned in the Doomsday Book as being in possession of his father's estates in 1078. He was Castellan of Windsor and Warden of the forests in county of Berks. This fortunate heir put the cope-stone to his prosperity, by marriage with Gladys, the daughter of Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn, Prince of North Wales, by whom he was father of three sons: Gerald Fitz Walter (Gerald de Windsor), the eldest son and successor. Robert de Windsor, Baron of Eston William de Windsorm Ancestor of the Barons of Windsor and Earls of Plymouth, also of the Marquess of Lansdowne. [1] Walter FitzOther was a feudal baron of Eton in Buckinghamshire (now in Berkshire) and was the first Constable of Windsor Castle in Berkshire (directly across the River Thames from Eton), a principal royal residence of King William the the Conqueror, and was a tenant-in-chief of that king of 21 manors in the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire and Middlesex, as well as holding a further 17 manors as a mesne tenant in the same counties. [2]
  Birth	Abt 1045/50  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	Cr. Castellan of Windsor Castle by William the Conqueror   [3]
  Occupation	Keeper of the forest of windsor   [3]
  Death	Aft 1100  [3]
  Person ID	I80514	Main Tree
  Last Modified	27 May 2023

  
  

  Father	Dominus OTHO
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	? UNKNOWN
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F466	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Beatrice ?
  Children	+ 1. William FITZ WALTER,   b. Abt 1075-1080   d. 1161 (Age 81 years)  [Birth] + 2. Gerald Of WINDSOR   d. Bef 1136  [Birth]
  Family ID	F32419	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Feb 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - - Keeper of the forest of windsor  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S83] Rodney Horace Yale, YALE Genealogy and History of Wales, The British Kings and Princes, Life of Owen Glyndwr. [S03581] Wikipedia Encyclopedia. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.