Gerald of Windsor

1070 - Aft 1116  (> 47 years)

• Name	Gerald of Windsor
  Birth	1070  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	1093  [2]
  Death	Aft 1116  [2]
  Alternate death	Bef 1136  [1, 3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I4705	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Walter fitz Other,   b. Between 1045 and 1050   d. Aft 1100 (Age ~ 56 years)
  Mother	Beatrice
  Family ID	F6088	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nest ferch Rhys,   b. Abt 1085   d. Bef 1136 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Children	+ 1. Maurice fitz Gerald,   b. Abt 1100   d. 1 Sep 1176, Wexford, Ireland (Age ~ 76 years)
  Family ID	F6068	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Constable of Pembroke Castle. Also called Gerald Fitz Walter; Gerald of Pembroke. From Complete Peerage X:10-11: Gerald, younger son 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. In 1095 he led a military expedition against the Welsh on the borders of what is now Pembrokeshire, and in 1100 went to Ireland to demand for Arnulf the daughter of King Murrough in marriage. Arnulf was deprived of his estates and exiled by Henry I in 1102, and the King granted the custody of Pembroke Castle to Gerald. He married Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales (e). The date of his death is not known, presumably before 1136. e) In 1106, when Owen ap Cadugan carried her off, two of her sons and a daughter by Gerald de Windsor were taken with her, the sons being returned later to their father. By Stephen, constable of Cardigan (query after Gerald's death), Nest bore a son, Robert FitzStephen, and by Henry I a son Henry (killed 1158), father of Meiler FitzHenry, which Robert and Meiler were later brothers-in-arms of the Geraldines in Ireland. For the descendants of Gerald and Nest see chart pedigree sub Kerry. Their 3rd son was David II, Bishop of St. Davids; and their daughter Angharad (or Ankaret) was, by William de Barri of Manorbier, mother of sons, among whom was Gerald de Barri, otherwise Giraldus Cambrensis, who Expugnatio Hibernica is one of the principal sources of information about the Norman conquest of Ireland by his uncles and cousins and their companions in adventure.

  
  

• Sources

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