Walter Giffard

Lord of Longueville

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Osbern de Bolbec.

This relationship is given by van Houts (XII:222) and by the Complete Peerage (2:386 fn a).

Mother: Wevia (Aveline), sister of Gunnor.

This relationship is given by van Houts (XII:222) and by the Complete Peerage (2:386 fn a).

Spouse: Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (2:386-7) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 456).

Children:

Walter Giffard (died 15 July 1102), first earl of Buckingham, married Agnes, sister of Anselm de Ribemont.

William Giffard, bishop of Winchester.

Rohese married Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare.

References

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).

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).

Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Robert of Torigni as Genealogist” in History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent: 1000-1200 (Ashgate, 1999).