Walter FitzOther

Walter FitzOther (fl. 1086, died 1100/1116) was feudal baron of Eton in Buckinghamshire (now in Berkshire) and was Constable of Windsor Castle in Berkshire (directly across the River Thames from Eton), a principal royal residence of King William the Conqueror, and was a tenant-in-chief of that king of 21 manors in the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire and Middlesex, as well as holding a further 17 manors as a mesne tenant in the same counties.

As the Fitz prefix to his surname suggests, Walter was the son of Ohthere (Latinized to Otheus), who had been Constable of Windsor Castle during the reign of King Edward the Confessor (1042–1066).

He married Gladys ap Conwyn, daughter of Rywallon ap Conwym, Prince of North Wales, by whom he had children including four sons as follows:

• William FitzWalter (died c. 1160), eldest son, 2nd feudal baron of Eton. His son was William de Windsor (died c. 1176), 3rd feudal baron of Eton, who adopted the surname de Windsor. The feudal barony of Eton soon split into moieties between two members of the family, William de Windsor (died 1215/16) and his cousin Walter de Windsor (died 1203). Walter de Windsor died without children in 1203, when his two sisters became his co-heiresses. The other moiety continued in the descendants of William de Windsor until at least the time of Richard de Windsor, the son of Richard de Windsor (1258–1326).
• Gerald de Windsor (c. 1075 – 1135), (alias Gerald FitzWalter), second son, the first castellan of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire (formerly part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth), in Wales, who was in charge of the Norman forces in southwest Wales. He was the ancestor of the FitzGerald and de Barry dynasties of Ireland, who were elevated to the Peerage of Ireland in the 14th century and was also the ancestor of the prominent Carew family, of Moulsford in Berkshire, Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire (in the Kingdom of Deheubarth) and of Mohuns Ottery in Devon (see Baron Carew, Earl of Totnes and Carew baronets).
• Robert of "Easton" (Eton?), Buckinghamshire
• Hugh, lord of the manor of West Horsley, Surrey.

• Vivian, p.133, quoting: "Berry's Surrey Pedigrees and other authorities"
• Vivian, p.133
• Sanders, I.J. English Baronies, a Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p.116-17; Vivian, p.133: "of whom the Lords of Windsor (sic) descend"
• Vivian, pp. 133–145, pedigree of Carew
• Vivian, p.133, quoting The Life of Sir Peter Carew, of Mohun Ottery, co. Devon., by John Hooker (c. 1527 – 1601), edited by Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792–1872), published 1840 in Archaeologia, the journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London
• Vivian, p.133, quoting: "Berry's Surrey Pedigrees

His landholdings as a tenant-in-chief as listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 were as follows (manor, hundred, county):

Buckinghamshire

• Eton, Stoke, Buckinghamshire, the probable caput of his feudal barony.
• Burnham, Burnham, Buckinghamshire
• Hardmead, Moulsoe, Buckinghamshire
• Horton, Stoke, Buckinghamshire

Berkshire

• [East and West] Hagbourne, Blewbury, Berkshire
• Bucklebury, Bucklebury, Berkshire
• Kintbury, Kintbury, Berkshire
• Chilton, Nakedthorn, Berkshire
• Wokefield, Reading, Berkshire
• Ortone, Ripplesmere, Berkshire

Middlesex

• [East] Bedfont, Spelthorne, Middlesex
• Hatton, Spelthorne, Middlesex
• Stanwell, Spelthorne, Middlesex
• [West] Bedfont, Spelthorne, Middlesex

Surrey

• Compton, Godalming, Surrey
• Hurtmore, Godalming, Surrey
• Peper Harrow, Godalming, Surrey
• Kingston [upon Thames], Kingston, Surrey
• [West] Horsley, Woking, Surrey

Hampshire

• Malshanger, Chuteley, Hampshire
• Will Hall, Neatham, Hampshire

• http://opendomesday.org/name/564200/walter-son-of-other/
• Sanders, p.116, note 6

His landholdings as a mesne tenant as listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 were as follows:

Buckinghamshire

• Burnham, Burnham, Buckinghamshire
• Eton, Stoke, Buckinghamshire
• Horton, Stoke, Buckinghamshire

Berkshire

• [East and West] Hagbourne, Blewbury, Berkshire
• Kintbury, Kintbury, Berkshire
• Chilton, Nakedthorn, Berkshire
• Ortone, Ripplesmere, Berkshire
• Windsor, Ripplesmere, Surrey / Berkshire / Buckinghamshire
• Wallingford, Slotisford, Berkshire / Oxfordshire

Middlesex

• Stanwell, Spelthorne, Middlesex

Surrey

• Compton, Godalming, Surrey
• Kingston [upon Thames], Kingston, Surrey
• [West] Horsley, Woking, Surrey
• Woking, Woking, Surrey

Hampshire

• Malshanger, Chuteley, Hampshire
• Will Hall, Neatham, Hampshire
• Winchfield, Odiham, Hampshire

• http://opendomesday.org/name/564200/walter-son-of-other/