Ancestral Trails 2016 » MILES FITZWALTER de PITRES (1092-1143)

Personal data MILES FITZWALTER de PITRES 

• He was born in the year 1092 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire.
• Title: Constable
• Title: 1st Earl of Hereford
• (Relationship) : 27th Great Grandfather.
• (Known as) : Miles of Gloucester.
• He died on December 24, 1143 in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, he was 51 years old.
• He is buried in the year 1143 in Llanthony Priory, Gloucestershire.
• A child of WALTER FITZROGER de PITRES and BERTHA de BALLON

Household of MILES FITZWALTER de PITRES

He is married to SYBIL NEWMARCH.

They got married April 1121 at Gloucester, Gloucestershire, he was 29 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Roger FITZMILES  1124-1155
2. LUCY OF HEREFORD  1136-> 1219 
3. Henry of HEREFORD  ± 1130-< 1163
4. William of HEREFORD  1134-1165
5. Mahel of HEREFORD  ± 1138-± 1164
6. BERTHA de PITRES  1128-???? 
7. MARGARET OF GLOUCESTER  1122-1197 

Notes about MILES FITZWALTER de PITRES

Apparently the only son of Walter, Miles received from Henry I in 1121, Sibyl, daughter of Bernard de Neufmarche, in marriage, which included all the lands of her father and mother, including the lordship of Brecknock.

By the time of King Stephen, he was one of the great magnates in western England, and after joining with Stephen, that King granted by charter to him and his heirs, the entire honour of Gloucester and Brecknock, as well as the constableship of Gloucester Castle.

He was at the siege of Shrewsbury in 1138, but upon the Empress' arrival, he switched his alliance, where she accepted his homage and granted him the castle of St. Briavell and the whole Forest of Dean. He accompanied her to Winchester, then to Reading, where he acted as her constable, and then to London in 1141. He joined her in her flight, being with her at Gloucester, and also at Oxford, where she created him Earl of Hereford, and subsequently granted to him and his heirs the castle and honours of Abergavenny.

His widow is stated to have entered a religious life after his death. While they had five sons, four of which succeeded as Lords of Brecknock, all five apparently died s.p., when their three sisters were found to be heirs. SOURCE: http://www.geneajourney.com/herefd.html#notea

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