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Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Buckingham, p.387). He had a son, another
Walter Giffard, who d.s.p. 1164. His dau. ROHESE was his heiress and
brought the Giffard estates into the Clare family upon her marriage.
For a more detailed account of the Battle of Mortremer, in which Walter
was one of the leaders, see the notes on HUGH DE GOURNAY III (RIN 6715).
Sandy McDougall
soc.genealogy.medieval on1 Jul 1996:
Subject: WALTER GIFFARD-BUCKINGHAM
WALTER GIFFARD of Longueville in Normandy (where he held a
substantial fief) was with the Conqueror at Hastings and received from
him a large fief in England, mainly in Buckingham, but of this there is
no
proof (he is recorded in Domesday as holding one of a group of ten fiefs
aggregating L5,000 per annum. Orderic II. 49 says "Walter Giffard was
given the Earldom of Buckinghamshire by the Conqueror." The relative
dates in Orderic's record, if these be properly placed, are 1071-1080,
which would be within the lifetime of Walter I. When Orderic wrote of
this period Walter Giffard II was an Earl, and the original grant may
have
been antedated by the annalist). He is said to have died late in the
Conqueror's reign, leaving a son and heir Walter II.
Gordon Fisher
GEN-MEDIEVAL@rootsweb.com on Sun, 30 Nov 1997
Subject: Re: The first Giffards (n part):
As DUKE RICHARD died in 996, even allowing for the fact that OSBERN
DE BOLEBEC was a mere youth at the date of his marriage with Avelina
(sic, should be her sister, WEVIA), Walter Giffard the first must have
been far advanced in life at the date of the conquest of England in
1066,
and this agrees with all we have been told of him from other sources.
He
first appears in 1035, as a companion of his brother-in-law, HUGH DE
GOURNAY, in the abortive attempt of Edward, son of KING ETHELRED
(RIN 968), to recover the crown of England. [Planche''s *Conqueror and
his Companions*, Vol. I, p. `63.] He is next heard of in 1053, when he
was left by DUKE WILLIAM in command of the forces blockading the Castle
of
Arques. For the invasion of England he found thirty vessels and a
hundred
men-at-arms, and Wace informs us in his *Roman de Rou* that previous
to the battle Raoul de Conches, the hereditary standard bearer of
Normandy, having asked to be quit of the service that he might fight
with
greater freedom, THE DUKE called to him Walter Giffard and desired him
to bear the gonfanon. Walter prayed to be excused on the ground that he
was too old and feeble. "For the mercy of God, Sire," said the old
knight,
"look upon my white and bald head. My strength is impaired, and I am
short of breath." Whereupon THE DUKE excused him. Orderic Vitalis
names Gauthier Giffard amongs THE CONQUEROR's companions of most
military reputation, and in another part of his chronicle states that
"Gauthier surnomme' Giffard eut en partage le Comte' de Buckingham," at
the same time as WILLIAM DE WARENNE and Ralph de Guader received the
Earldoms of Surrey and Norfolk."
--- Maj.-Gen The Hon. George Wrottesley, *Giffards from the Conquest
to the Present Time*, in *Collections for a History of Staffordshire*,
vol V. New Series, London (Harrison and Sons) 1902, p 4-5.
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