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When Gerald De Windsor FitzWalter Lord Constable of Windsor Castle was born about 1070, in Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales, his father, Walter FitzOtho de Windsor, was 35 and his mother, Beatrice de Offley, was 32. He married Nesta ferch Rhys De Gales in 1104, in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters.
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Gerald (Fitz Walter) de Windsor was constable of Pembroke castle - he was alive in 1108; his wife was Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. The well-known antiquary Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (see Peniarth MS 6 ) surmised that Osbwrn came to Wales c. 1237 but W. W. E. Wynne suggests a rather later period.
King Henry then married Nest off to Gerald de Windsor, an Anglo-Norman baron much older than his new wife. Gerald was Constable of Pembroke Castle and ruled Nest’s father’s former kingdom for the Normans. Marrying Nest to Gerald was a shrewd political move, lending the Norman baron some sense of legitimacy in the eyes of the local Welsh people.
Gerald de Windsor (c. 1075–1135), alias Gerald FitzWalter, was the first castellan of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire (formerly part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth), in Wales, and was in charge of the Norman forces in southwest Wales.
Gerald de Windsor (c.1075 – 1135), alias Gerald FitzWalter, was an Cymro-Norman lord who was the first Castellan of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire (formerly part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth). Son of the first Norman-French Constable of Windsor Castle, and married to a Welsh Princess daughter of the King of Deheubarth, he was in charge of the Norman forces in south-west Wales.
24 de sept. de 2016 · For hundreds of years the origin of the ancestors of Gerald de Windsor has been debated, with some arguing that his ancestors were Anglo-Normans, and others arguing that they were originally from Florence, Tuscany, and were Italian. This paper makes sense out of the confusion created by all the others who wrote on the subject of the ancestry of ...
