Gerald of Windsor

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 1116 and 1136.

The dates are given by Walker (ODNB).

Relationships

(probable) Father: Walter fitz Other.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (10:10) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 968). Walker notes that Walter may have been Gerald’s elder brother.

(probable) Mother: Beatrice.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (10:10).

Spouse: Nest ferch Rhys ap Tewdwr.

This relationship is given by Walker (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 968), and by the Complete Peerage (10:11).

Children (by Nest):

Maurice Fitzgerald (died 1 September 1176).

David (died 1177). Bishop of St David's.

Angharad married William de Barry.

Children (by an unknown mistress):

William Fitzgerald (died 1173).

References

Cawley, Charles. “Gerald FitzWalter” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Flanagan, M.T. “Fitzgerald, Maurice (d. 1176)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Walker, David. “Windsor, Gerald of (d. 1116x36)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).