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Birth:          1070 Windsor, Berkshire, England
Death:          1136 

Notes
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Gerald Fitz Walter; Constable of Pembroke Castle by 1092, when he held off a Welsh 
attack; commanded troops against native Welsh in SW Wales 1095; travelled to 
Ireland 1100 to seek the hand in marriage of King Murrogh's daughter for his overlord 
Arnulf de Montgomery; on Arnulf's disgrace 1102 was made full Keeper of Pembroke 
Castle by Henry I. [Burke's Peerage]

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Granted Mulsford, Berks. by Henry I; Constable of Pembroke Castle, 1108

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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. [Complete Peerage X:10
-11, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(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.

Parents
DE WINDSOR Walter Fitz Otho (ABT 1037 - AFT 1100)
____ Beatrice (ABT 1041 - )

Siblings
DE WINDSOR Gerald Fitz Walter (1070 - 1136)

Marriage To VERCH RHYS Nest (1073 - BEF 1136)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
AP TEWDYR Rhys (ABT 1010 - 1093)
VERCH RHIWALLON Gwladus (ABT 1041 - )

Children by VERCH RHYS Nest 1073 - BEF 1136
FITZ GERALD Maurice (1100 - 1 Sep 1177)
FITZ GERALD William (BEF 1100 - 1173)

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