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Source: Walter De Lacy, "Find A Grave Index"

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Walter de Lacy

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"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-T28Z : 11 January 2022), Walter De Lacy, ; Burial, Gloucester, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, Gloucester Cathedral; citing record ID 48362498, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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Walter De Lacy BIRTH 1046 France DEATH 22 Mar 1085 (aged 38–39) Hereford, Herefordshire Unitary Authority, Herefordshire, England BURIAL Gloucester Cathedral Gloucester, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England PLOT Chapter House MEMORIAL ID Companion of William the Conqueror. Sent to Wales by the King and was killed there. Per contributor 4694366: Walter's father was Hugh de Lacy, born about 1018, and Walter's brother Ilbert was born in 1045. Sources I have seen put Walter's birth date around 1046." His mother's name was Emma. From an anonymous findagrave contributor: Walter de Lasci of the Conquest. The Sire de Lacy of England. He was the great-grandfather of the Hugh de Lacy, Lord Palatine of Meath, the Sire de Lacy of Ireland. Walter is styled of Longton Castle, Herefordshire, and also as Lord Lassy in Normandy. Together with his two sons, Roger and Hugh, he rode by the side of William the Conqueror on the day of Hastings. Many and various grants of land were made to him in Herefordshire and the adjoining counties. In the 'hundred' of Ewias-Lacy, southeast of the County Hereford, and at the eastern base of the Hattervilles, still stand, at least the ruins, of what was once the castle of Longton, the earliest seat of the de Lacys in England, and founded by Walter himself. During all those centuries it has never passed away from the descendants of its original proprietor; it is now the property of the Marquis of Abergavenny. The venerable pile was erected over the ruins of an ancient Roman camp. Walter de Lacy died on March 22, 1085, and was interred in the Chapter House of the Abbey of Gloucester of which his son Walter, was abbot from 1130 to 1139. He met his death under tragic circumstances, for whilst incautiously inspecting the newly-built church of St Peter's Hereford, he fell from the lofty battlements and was killed. Walter is referred to in 'The Romaunt de Rou (Rollo)' as 'the Sieur de Lassi.' Five children survived him, viz., Roger, Hugh, Walter, Emma, and Emmeline. His wife was Lady Ermeline de Lacy. Walter de Lacy, first baron of Ludlow and Weobley, is sated on the authority of modern writers to have been brother to Lady Halwyse de Lacy (a matter which hasnot yet been fully established) and consequently half-brother to Ilbert of Pontefract. Others assert that Lady Halwyse de Lacy was Walter's neice. [Ref: _The Roll of the House of Lacy; pedigrees, military memoirs and synoptical history of the ancient andillustrious family of De Lacy, from the earliest times, in all its branches, to the present day. Full notices on allied families and a memoir of the Brownes (Camas)_ collected and compiled by Edward De Lacy-Bellingari, Waverly Press, Baltimore, 1st edition 1928, pp. 2-3] Less

Walter De Lacy
BIRTH 1046
France
DEATH 22 Mar 1085 (aged 38–39)
Hereford, Herefordshire Unitary Authority, Herefordshire, England
BURIAL
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
PLOT Chapter House
MEMORIAL ID

Companion of William the Conqueror. Sent to Wales by the King and was killed there.
Per contributor 4694366: Walter's father was Hugh de Lacy, born about 1018, and Walter's brother Ilbert was born in 1045. Sources I have seen put Walter's birth date around 1046." His mother's name was Emma.
From an anonymous findagrave contributor:
Walter de Lasci of the Conquest. The Sire de Lacy of England. He was the great-grandfather of the Hugh de Lacy, Lord Palatine of Meath, the Sire de Lacy of Ireland. Walter is styled of Longton Castle, Herefordshire, and also as Lord Lassy in Normandy. Together with his two sons, Roger and Hugh, he rode by the side of William the Conqueror on the day of Hastings. Many and various grants of land were made to him in Herefordshire and the adjoining counties. In the 'hundred' of Ewias-Lacy, southeast of the County Hereford, and at the eastern base of the Hattervilles, still stand, at least the ruins, of what was once the castle of Longton, the earliest seat of the de Lacys in
England, and founded by Walter himself. During all those centuries it has never passed away from the descendants of its original proprietor; it is now the property of the
Marquis of Abergavenny. The venerable pile was erected over the ruins of an ancient Roman camp.
Walter de Lacy died on March 22, 1085, and was interred in the Chapter House of the Abbey of Gloucester of which his son Walter, was abbot from 1130 to 1139. He met his death
under tragic circumstances, for whilst incautiously inspecting the newly-built church of St Peter's Hereford, he fell from the lofty battlements and was killed. Walter is referred to in 'The Romaunt de Rou (Rollo)' as 'the Sieur de Lassi.' Five children survived him, viz., Roger, Hugh, Walter, Emma, and Emmeline. His wife was Lady Ermeline de Lacy. Walter de Lacy, first baron of Ludlow and Weobley, is sated on the authority of modern writers to have been brother to Lady Halwyse de Lacy (a matter which hasnot yet been fully established) and consequently half-brother to Ilbert of Pontefract. Others assert that Lady Halwyse de Lacy was Walter's neice. [Ref: _The Roll of the House of Lacy; pedigrees, military memoirs and synoptical history of the ancient andillustrious family of De Lacy, from the earliest times, in all its branches, to the present day. Full notices on allied families and a memoir of the Brownes (Camas)_ collected and compiled by
Edward De Lacy-Bellingari, Waverly Press, Baltimore, 1st edition 1928, pp. 2-3]
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