Walter de Hereford

Walter de Hereford was a holder of the feudal title Baron Bergavenny or Lord Abergavenny in the Welsh Marches in the mid twelfth century.

Lineage

Walter de Hereford was a son of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford and Sibyl of Neufmarche,^[1] and brother to Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford and Mahel de Hereford and William de Hereford.^[2]

Offices

Walter de Hereford held the post of King's Constable in the region under King Henry I of England and became lord of Brecon and Abergavenny from circa 1155.^[1] In 1155 he was also made hereditary High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, a post he held for two years, and High Sheriff of Herefordshire, a post he held until 1159.^[3]

He died in circa 1159 / 1160, without issue^[3] in the Holy Land on Crusade.^[4] On his death the shrievalty of Gloucestershire was no longer hereditary.

Notes

References

• Cawley, Charles (10 April 2012), England, Earls Created 1067-1122: Walter FitzMiles, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved November 2012 
• Cokayne, George E (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant I (new, 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes ed.), Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, pp. 20, 21 
• Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. (2002), Domesday Descendants - A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 - II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum, Domesday Descendants (1st ed.), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, p. 512, ISBN 0-85115-863-3 
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• Lundy, Darryl (24 February 2004), Walter of Hereford, The Peerage, p. 62 § 617, retrieved November 2012  External link in |publisher= (help)

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