Walter de Riddlesford

Walter de Riddlesford (ca. 1125 – 1226) was an Anglo-Norman lord granted in Ireland the baronies of Bray, County Wicklow and Kilkea, County Kildare between 1171 and 1176.

De Riddlesford was born in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland. He married Amabilis Fitzhenry (born ca. 1150 in Ireland).

He built a motte and bailey fortress on the site of what is now Kilkea Castle in County Kildare in 1181.

He died in 1226 and was succeeded by his son Walter de Ridelsford (born 1204 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England).[1]

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