Ancestral Trails 2016 » HERVEY WALTER (1130-1190)

Personal data HERVEY WALTER 

• He was born in the year 1130 in West Dereham, Norfolk.
• (Alternative Name) : Hervey De Clare.
• (Relationship) : 27th Great Grandfather.
• He died in the year 1190, he was 60 years old.
• A child of HERVEY WALTER de CLARE and MARGARET BECKETT

Household of HERVEY WALTER

He is married to MATILDA de VALOGNES.

They got married in the year 1155 at West Dereham, Norfolk, he was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Daughter FITZWALTER  ± 1160-????
2. Hamon FITZWALTER  ± 1164-????
3. Robert FITZWALTER  ± 1162-????
4. Hubert FITZWALTER  ± 1158-1205
5. THEOBALD I FITZWALTER  1156-???? 

Notes about HERVEY WALTER

He was of West Dereham, Norfolk and owner of large estates there and in Suffolk.

married Maud de Valognes, sister-in-law of Ranulph de Glanville, the most powerful of Henry II's subjects, who would advance their children
had 4 sons- Theobald, Hubert, Roger, and Hamo
- second son Hubert, Bishop of Salisbury, was instrumental in raising the enormous ransom demanded by the German Emperor Henry VI for Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard I) whom he accompanied on the third Crusade as Bishop of Salsbury. He later governed England ably and even laid some of the foundations of democracy as we know it. He retained the confidence of Henry II and his heirs Richard I and John; he was immensely powerful and became Archbishop of Cantebury in 1193; Chief Justice and Governor of the Kingdom during the absence of RichardI; Chancellor of England in 1199; Pope's Legate in the reign of King John, and died in 1205 in his manor of Teynham.
Hervey died 1189

The ancestors of the Butlers came from Normandy to England with William the Conquerer. Their original name was Walter, from Walter, one of their ancestors; and Theobald Walter came to Ireland with Henry the Second in 1172 and had the office of Chief Butler of Ireland conferred on him, the duty attached to which was to attend the coronation of the Kings of England and present them with the first cup of wine. From the office of "Butlership of Irleand," they took the name butler.

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