GHERARDINI, Sir Dominius Otho

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• Name	GHERARDINI, Dominius Otho
  Prefix	Sir
  Birth	5 Oct 1006	Tuscany, Italy
  Gender	Male
  Death	1057	Staines, Middlesex, England
  WAC	30 Sep 1908	SLAKE
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  Person ID	I70353	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Gherardini
  Family ID	F33606	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gwlady
  Children	+ 1. WINDSOR, Walter de ,   b. Abt 1050, Windsor, Berkshire, England Windsor, Berkshire, Englandd. Aft 1100, Brecon, Breconshire, Wales (Age > 51 years)
  Family ID	F33671	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Ref: British 941.5 D221 Vol 1, 2, 3 - The Peerage of Ireland Earls - Fitz-Gerald, Earl of Kildare The Family of Fitz-Gerald derives its origin from Otho, or (as the Earl of Plymouth's Pedigree hath it) Other, a rich and powerful Lord in the Time of King Alfred, descended from the Dukes of Tuscany, who from Florence (or Norway) passed into Normandy, and thence to England; where, and in Wales, they flourished, until Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, their Kinsman, engaged them to partake in his expedition to Ireland, in which Maurice Fitz-Gerald embarked, and was one of the especial Conquerors of the Kingdom. Sir William Dugdale tells, that the aforesaid Otho was a Baron of England in the sixteenth Year of King Edward the Confessor, and was Father of Walter Fitz-Otho (or Fitz-Walter Other) who, at the general survey of that kingdom in 1078, was Castellan of Windsor, and appointed, by the Conqueror, Warden of the Forests in Berkshire; being then possessed of three Lordships in that County, three in Surry, three in Bucks, three in Dorsetshire, four in Middlesex, nine in Wiltshire, and ten in the County of Southampton; all which Dominus Otherus his Father held in the Time of King Edward the Confessor. He married Gladys, the Daughter of Rywall ap Conyn, by whom he had three sons, Gerald (Gerard or Girardus), Robert, and William. (Note: The Seniority of these sons is disputed by those, who have drawn the Pedigrees of this family; Gerald, the eldest in the Earl of Kildare's Pedigree, being made the youngest in that of the Earl of Kerry, drawn in the Year 1615, and attested by Seager, Garter King of Arms, who is followed by his successors, Dugdale and anstis, for which they assign this reason, viz. That the Appelation of Fitz-Walter was given in this Gerald, because he was a younger son. To controvert this, is to encounter great authority; but we think it deserves an inquiry, how the consequence of his being a younger son can be drawn from his having the appellation of Fitz-Walter? The custom of that age warrants us to affirm the contrary, and to assert, that the eldest son (especially) assumed for his surname, instances occur in this very family: And this continued in use until surnames began to be fixed about the time of King Edward I, and among many families (particularly elder branches) till long after that time; younger sons being not so frequently known, or called by their father's christian name, as by that of his office, employment, etc. For which reason, the two brothers of this Gerald are not called Fitz-Walter, but, De Windsor. -- Wherefore, waving further argument, I shall depend on the authority of a pedigree, communicated by the late Earl of Kildare, carefully drawn up in the year 1662, by the ingenious Robert Saundford, Esq; Lancaster Herald, and fix upon Gerald for the eldest son, and William for the youngest.) Robert de Winsor, who was Baron of Eston or Estaines in Essex. (He bore the Coat of Arms, distinguished from the chief branch, by transporting the tinctures, adding a Bordure engrailed, Argent, and charging the Saltire with a crescent; a demonstration of his being the second son.) He was succeeded by his son William de Windsor, to whom King Henry II confirmed the Barony of Eston, and all his lands: But he leaving only one daughter, she became the wife of Robert de Hastinges, and her daughter Delicia was married to Henry de Cornhill, whose only child and heir Jane, being married to Sir Godfrey do Lovaine, Lord of Lovaine, was Mother of Sir Matthew de Dovaine, who held the said Manor of Estaines by Barony; and his heir-general being matched into the family of Bourchier, they possessed the said Barony, until it was purchased in Queen Elizabeth's Reign by Sir Henry Maynard, and now gives title to his descendant, the Lord Maynard of Estaines. William, who also assumed the surname of Windsor from his father's office, and bore the family coat of arms with the tinctures transposed, and the field charged with twelve croslets, or.---He was ancestor to the Lords Windsor, Barons of Stanwell, from whom are descended the Earl of Plymouth, and the Lord Viscount Windsor, as appears in the history of that family. Gerald, or Gerard, the eldest son of Walter Fitz-Other, was generally surnamed Fitz-Walter, by which name comden styles him, when he mentions the grant made to him by King Henry I, of Molesford in Bershire.---On the disobedience of Rhaefus, Prince of Wales, the King appointed him commander of a strong body of men, to reduce him to a proper submission: He performed his errand, and was made Governor, or Constable of Pembroke Castle, which he fortified and defended against the Welsh; and having slain Oen, son of Cadugan ap Blethyn, Lord of Cardiganshire, was constituted President, or Steward of of the County of Pembroke, and recompensed by the King with many lands in Wales, which induced him to settle in that country, and there to marry Nesta, Daughter to Rees Gruffydh, Prince of South-Wales (some say, Daughter) to Rhaefus, or Rees ap Teudor Griffin, the Great, Prince of South-Wales, and sister to Rees ap Gruffydh ap Theodore. (Nesta had been concubine to King Henry I, and was mother by him of Henry, whose two sons Meiler and Robert Fitz-Henry were adventurers under Strongbow.--She had also been married to Stephen, Constable of the Castles of Cardigan and Pembroke, by whom she had Robert Fitz-Stephen, an Adventurer likewise under the Earl of Pembroke (to whom and Miles de Cogan, King Henry II gave the kingdom of Cork) and by his sons Ralph and Mereduk, was progenitor of the Fitz-Stephens in Ireland. By her he had three sons, viz. Maurice Fitz-Gerald (set down in the Earl of Kerry's Pedigree for the second son) of whom presently. William Fitz-Gerald, said to be the eldest son in the said Pedigree. Note: These contradictory Pedigrees make it extremely difficult incontestably to confirm.