Walter of Hereford was a holder of the feudal title Baron Bergavenny or Lord Abergavenny in the Welsh Marches in the mid twelfth century.
Lineage
Walter of Hereford was a son of Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, and Sibyl of Neufmarche, and the brother of Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford and Mahel of Hereford and William de Hereford.
Offices
Walter of 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. In 1155 he was also made hereditary Sheriff of Gloucestershire, a post he held for two years, and Sheriff of Herefordshire, a post he held until 1159.
He departed for the Holy Land on Crusade about Michaelmas 1159, and died there not long after. On his death the shrievalty of Gloucestershire was no longer hereditary. No children are known.
Notes
- Keats-Rohan 2002, p. 512
References
- Cokayne, George E (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. 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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