Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameGerald FitzWalter DE WINDSOR Constable Of Pembroke, 24G Grandfather
FatherWalter FITZOTHER (~1037->1100)
MotherBeatrice (->1100)
Spouses
1Nesta VCH RHYS Princess Of Deheubarth, 24G Grandmother
FatherRhys AP TEWDWR King Of Deheubarth (-1093)
MotherGwladys VCH RHIWALLON
ChildrenMaurice Fitzgerald (1100-1176)
Angharad (~1122-)
Web Notes notes for Gerald FitzWalter DE WINDSOR Constable Of Pembroke
From "Complete Peerage England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain" by George E Cokayne, CS421.G2 1982, v X, page 10, Offaly:
Gerald, younger son (d) 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. (e) In 1095 he led a military expedition against the Welsh on the borders of what is [page 11] now Pembrokeshire, and in 1100 went to Ireland to demand for Arnulf the daughter of King Murrough in marriage. (a) Arnulf was deprived of his estates and exiled by King Henry I in 1102, and the King granted the custody of Pembroke Castle to Gerald. (b) He married Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales. (c) The date of his death is not known; presumably before 1136. (d)
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(d) Round, in Genealogist, N.S., vol. xv, pp. 1,2. His affiliation depends on the attribution to him of the name of Windsor in his grandson's account of Pembroke Castle (Itin. Kambrie, Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, Rolls Ser., vol. vi, p. 89)-a name by which brothers of his, especially his eldest brother William and William's descendants were known (Ancestor, no. 2, p. 95). This William succeeded his father as hereditary constable of Windsor Castle, and was ancestor of the Lords Windsor of Stanwell, whose barony by writ fell into abeyance in 1641. See Windsor.
(e) Itin. Kambrie, ut supra, pp. 90, 91; Brut y Tywysogion (Rolls Ser.) p. 59.
(a) Orderic, vol. iv, p. 178; dated 1100 in Brut, p. 69.
(b) Idem, pp. 73-77. The injury done him later, by the carrying off of his wife and children by Owen ap Cadugan, is represented as an insult not only to Gerald himself, but to King Henry, whose steward and particular friend he was (Idem, pp. 77, 85, 87). [Also, Gerald's wife had been the lover of King Henry and had a son by him before she married Gerald!]
The eldest son, Gerald, assumed, according to the custom of that day with eldest sons, the name Fitz-Walter. He was made Constable of Pembroke Castle by King Henry I of England, commanded the English forces against the Welsh, was made President of the county of Pembroke, and married Nesta, the beautiful daughter of Rhys-ap-Griffith, Prince of South Wales, mistress of King Henry I, called from her adventures 'the Helen of Wales.' When Gerald married her she was, according to one authority, widow of the Constable of Cardigan; according to another Gerald was her first husband and the Constable her second. This Nesta was afterwards carried off, with two of her sons, by Owen, her cousins, who set fire to Pembroke Castle to cover his attack, Gerald escaping by a ladder. The boys were sent back, and Owen fled to Ireland; but returning afterwards, Gerald surprised and slew him in 1116. By Nesta, Gerald Fitz-Walter had three sons and one daughter.34
Gerald, younger son (d) 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. (e) In 1095 he led a military expedition against the Welsh on the borders of what is [page 11] now Pembrokeshire, and in 1100 went to Ireland to demand for Arnulf the daughter of King Murrough in marriage. (a) Arnulf was deprived of his estates and exiled by King Henry I in 1102, and the King granted the custody of Pembroke Castle to Gerald. (b) He married Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales. (c) The date of his death is not known; presumably before 1136. (d)
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(d) Round, in Genealogist, N.S., vol. xv, pp. 1,2. His affiliation depends on the attribution to him of the name of Windsor in his grandson's account of Pembroke Castle (Itin. Kambrie, Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, Rolls Ser., vol. vi, p. 89)-a name by which brothers of his, especially his eldest brother William and William's descendants were known (Ancestor, no. 2, p. 95). This William succeeded his father as hereditary constable of Windsor Castle, and was ancestor of the Lords Windsor of Stanwell, whose barony by writ fell into abeyance in 1641. See Windsor.
(e) Itin. Kambrie, ut supra, pp. 90, 91; Brut y Tywysogion (Rolls Ser.) p. 59.
(a) Orderic, vol. iv, p. 178; dated 1100 in Brut, p. 69.
(b) Idem, pp. 73-77. The injury done him later, by the carrying off of his wife and children by Owen ap Cadugan, is represented as an insult not only to Gerald himself, but to King Henry, whose steward and particular friend he was (Idem, pp. 77, 85, 87). [Also, Gerald's wife had been the lover of King Henry and had a son by him before she married Gerald!]
The eldest son, Gerald, assumed, according to the custom of that day with eldest sons, the name Fitz-Walter. He was made Constable of Pembroke Castle by King Henry I of England, commanded the English forces against the Welsh, was made President of the county of Pembroke, and married Nesta, the beautiful daughter of Rhys-ap-Griffith, Prince of South Wales, mistress of King Henry I, called from her adventures 'the Helen of Wales.' When Gerald married her she was, according to one authority, widow of the Constable of Cardigan; according to another Gerald was her first husband and the Constable her second. This Nesta was afterwards carried off, with two of her sons, by Owen, her cousins, who set fire to Pembroke Castle to cover his attack, Gerald escaping by a ladder. The boys were sent back, and Owen fled to Ireland; but returning afterwards, Gerald surprised and slew him in 1116. By Nesta, Gerald Fitz-Walter had three sons and one daughter.34