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Walter de Riddlesford II Baron of Bray
- Preferred Name: Walter de Riddlesford II Baron of Bray[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Alternate Name: Walter De Riddlesford
- Gender: M
- Burial: DEC 1244
- Birth: 1180 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland at LATI: N3.2295 LONG: E6.8633
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baron Of Bray / Lord Bray
- FSID: 9SGW-Z11
- Death: 12 DEC 1244 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland at LATI: N3.2295 LONG: E6.8633
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Walter de Riddlesford (fl. 1150 – d. 1226) was an Anglo-Norman lord who was granted in Ireland the baronies of Bray, County Wicklow and Kilkea, County Kildare between 1171 and 1176.
About Walter de Riddlesford, II, Baron of Bray
Name: Walter De Ridelsford II
Father: Walter De Ridelsford I b: ABT 1126 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland
Mother: Annabilis Fitzhenry b: ABT 1140 in Narbeth, , South Wales
Marriage 1 Annora Wife Of Walter De Ridelsford b: ABT 1200
Emaline De Ridelsford b: ABT 1216 in Kildare, Ireland
Sources:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?p=GET&db=jcrow&id=I11202
The estate of Lord of Bray at County Wicklow, Ireland Walter de Ridelisford was probated on 12 December 1244. Inventory of his estates was taken.See "My Lines"
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p57.htm#i6950 )from Compiler: R. B. Stewart, Evans, GA
(http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/index.htm )
Walter de Riddlesford formerly Riddlesford aka de Ridelesford
Born about 1180 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Irelandmap [uncertain]
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Walter (Ridelsford) de Riddlesford and Amabilis (Fitzhenry) de Riddlesford
Brother of Basilia (De Riddlesford) de Cogan
Husband of Annora (UNKNOWN) de Riddlesford — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Margaret (Ridelesford) de Marisco and Emmeline (Riddlesford) Longespée
Died about 1244 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Irelandmap [uncertain]
BIO
BIO: from An Hitherto Unnoted Descent from King Henry I, NEHGR, Vol. 116, Oct. 1962, p. 279
The son and heir of Walter and Amabilis was another Walter de Ridelisford who died sometime before 12 Dec
=== THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.96, 98, 137, 143; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.34, 38; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
=== !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
!Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition line 33A-25A
=== !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection ===
!BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection, April 1994 Baron Bray
=== Source: Frederick Lewis Weis & Walter Le ===
Source: Frederick Lewis Weis & Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Ancestral Roots of certain American colonists..., (Edition 7, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1992), 33A-25A.
=== !BIR-MAR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen ===
!BIR-MAR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Walter de Riddlesford I - Baron of Bray, County Wicklow and Kilkea, b. 1148 in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland d. 1226 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland
Mother: Amabilis FitzHenry, b. 1149 in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales d. 1226 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland
Family 1: Annora de Vitre, b. 1190 in County Kildare, Ireland d. 1225 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Leinster, Ireland
- m. ABT 1213 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- Emmeline de Riddleford, b. ABT 1223 in d. 19 JUL 1276 in Sutton, Northamptonshire, England
Family 2: Emmeline De Burgh, b. ABT 1185 in Ireland
Sources:
- Title: "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700," page 42 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700,"
Note: "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700," page 42 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700," page 42 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Watler de Riddlesford WikiTree -↑ The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, commonly called O'Dowda's Country Author: Duald Mac Firbis pg.400
Author: Ancestry
Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Riddlesford-4;
Note: Walter Rittabard [Riddlesford], Chief Baron of Leinster, who in 1235 commanded the English of Leinster[1]
Margaret de Ridelesford, daughter of Walter de Ridelesford, married Robert de Marisco, son of Geoffrey de Marisco, Justiciar of Ireland.[2] They had a daughter Christiana de Marisco.[2]
His other daughter Emmelina married firstly Hugh de Lacy, Earlo of Ulster, and secondly Stephen de Longespee.[2]
Walter de Ridelesford was alive in 1237 but dead by May 1244.[2] In 1244 there was an inquiry concerning the lands of Walter de Ridelesford, grandfather of Christiania, daughter and one of the heirs of Robert de Marisco.[2]
Notes
Walter Riddlesford was born in 1180 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland. His parents were Walter Ridelsford and Amabilis Fitzhenry. He married Annora UNKNOWN Together they had 1 known child: Emmeline Riddlesford. He died in 1261 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland [No source]
Sources
↑ The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, commonly called O'Dowda's Country Author: Duald Mac Firbis pg.400
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Family of Marisco (Concluded). By Eric St. John Brooks. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland; Seventh Series, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jun. 30, 1932), pp.50-74. [1].
- Title: Earls of Ulster in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 8, pgs. 4-6 [See document in the memories section]
Author: Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 8, pgs. 4-6
Note: Earls of Ulster in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 8, pgs. 4-6 [See document in the memories section]
Page: Earls of Ulster in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 8, pgs. 4-6 [See document in the memories section]
- Title: Emmeline Riddlesford in Walter de Riddlesford, Wikipedia
Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_de_Riddlesford
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_de_Riddlesford;
Note: Walter de Riddlesford (fl. 1150 – d. 1226) was an Anglo-Norman lord who was granted in Ireland the baronies of Bray, County Wicklow and Kilkea, County Kildare between 1171 and 1176. De Riddlesford was born in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland. He married a daughter of Henry fitz Henry named Amabilis Fitzhenry. He built a motte and bailey fortress on the site of what is now Kilkea Castle in County Kildare in 1181.
He died in 1226 and was succeeded by his son Walter. His granddaughter, Emmeline, married Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster (as his second wife) and, then, Stephen Longespée, son of William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and grandson of Henry II of England (one of their daughters was Ela Longespee).[2][3][4]
Page: Walter de Riddlesford in Wikipedia ~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_de_Riddlesford [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 310 [See document in the memories section]
Author: Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 310
Note: Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 310 [See document in the memories section]
Page: Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 310 [See document in the memories section]
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