Walter FitzOther

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Walter FitzOther (fl. 1086; died after 1099) 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 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.

Marriage and children He married Beatrice and had issue:

William FitzWalter (died c. 1160), eldest son, 2nd feudal baron of Eton. His son was William de Windsor (died c. 1176), 3rd feudal baron of Eton, who adopted the surname de Windsor. The feudal barony of Eton soon split into moieties between two members of the family, William de Windsor (died 1215/16) and his cousin, Walter de Windsor (died 1203). Walter de Windsor died without children in 1203, when his two sisters became his co-heiresses. The other moiety continued in the descendants of William de Windsor until at least the time of Richard de Windsor, the son of Richard de Windsor (1258–1326). Robert FitzWalter, second son, inherited the nearby manor of Eton in Berkshire. Gerald de Windsor (c. 1075 – 1135), (alias Gerald FitzWalter), third son, the first castellan of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire (formerly part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth), in Wales, who was in charge of the Norman forces in southwest Wales. He was the progenitor of the FitzGerald, FitzMaurice and De Barry dynasties of Ireland, who were elevated to the Peerage of Ireland in the 14th century and was also the ancestor of the prominent Carew family, of Moulsford in Berkshire, Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire (in the Kingdom of Deheubarth) and of Mohuns Ottery in Devon (see Baron Carew, Earl of Totnes and Carew baronets).

Landholdings as tenant-in-chief His landholdings as a tenant-in-chief as listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 were as follows (manor, hundred, county):

Buckinghamshire Eton, Stoke, Buckinghamshire, the probable caput of his feudal barony. Burnham, Burnham, Buckinghamshire Hardmead, Moulsoe, Buckinghamshire Horton, Stoke, Buckinghamshire

Berkshire [East and West] Hagbourne, Blewbury, Berkshire Bucklebury Manor, Bucklebury, Berkshire Kintbury, Kintbury, Berkshire Chilton, Nakedthorn, Berkshire Wokefield, Reading, Berkshire Ortone, Ripplesmere, Berkshire

Middlesex [East] Bedfont, Spelthorne, Middlesex Hatton, Spelthorne, Middlesex Stanwell, Spelthorne, Middlesex [West] Bedfont, Spelthorne, Middlesex

Surrey Compton, Godalming, Surrey Hurtmore, Godalming, Surrey Peper Harrow, Godalming, Surrey Kingston [upon Thames], Kingston, Surrey [West] Horsley, Woking, Surrey

Hampshire Malshanger, Chuteley, Hampshire Will Hall, Neatham, Hampshire

Landholdings as mesne tenant His landholdings as a mesne tenant as listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 were as follows:

Buckinghamshire Burnham, Burnham, Buckinghamshire Eton, Stoke, Buckinghamshire Horton, Stoke, Buckinghamshire

Berkshire [East and West] Hagbourne, Blewbury, Berkshire Kintbury, Kintbury, Berkshire Chilton, Nakedthorn, Berkshire Ortone, Ripplesmere, Berkshire Windsor, Ripplesmere, Surrey / Berkshire / Buckinghamshire Wallingford, Slotisford, Berkshire / Oxfordshire

Middlesex Stanwell, Spelthorne, Middlesex

Surrey Compton, Godalming, Surrey Kingston [upon Thames], Kingston, Surrey [West] Horsley, Woking, Surrey Woking, Woking, Surrey

Hampshire Malshanger, Chuteley, Hampshire Will Hall, Neatham, Hampshire Winchfield, Odiham, Hampshire