Walter de Lacy
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Baptism: unknown.
Place of Baptism: unknown.
Date of Death: 27 March 1085.
Place of Death: possibly Hereford.
The date and place are given by Lewis (ODNB). Later family legend has it that Walter died when he fell off the scaffolding while inspecting work at St Guthlac’s, Hereford.
Place of Burial: the chapter house at Gloucester Abbey.
The place is given by Lewis (ODNB).
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Ermeline.
The place is given by Lewis (ODNB).
Brother: Ilbert de Lacy.
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (Domesday People p. 277) and by Wightman. Other scholars are not certain.
Children:
Walter de Lacy.
Hugh de Lacy.
Emmeline de Lacy.
Emma de Lacy.
References
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).
Lewis, C.P. “Lacy, Walter de (d.1085)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011).
Wightman, W.E. The Lacy Family in England and Normandy 1066-1194 (Oxford at the Clarendon Press: 1966).