Wimer de Gressenhall

• Preferred Name: Wimer de Gressenhall
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: G36Q-671
  
• Death: ABT 1130 in England with note: Standardized Place
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
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  Wimer Dapifer, Norman, was a Domesday tenant (1086) and steward (dapifer) of William de Warenne in Norfolk and Suffolk. He appears in a charter of 1090, and is mentioned in many later charters. In a charter for Castle Acre priory Osmund de Stuteville, husband of his great-grand-daughter Isabel, referred to him as the first in a listing of their antecessors as 'Wimar seneschal de Gressinghale'.
  
  With Gila Wimar had at least two sons, Roger and Walter. Also two 'nepotes' Geoffrey, a chaplain, and Sewalo are mentioned in records. He died a monk of Castle Acre. He appears in charters as late as approximately 1130 according to Farrer in EYC (repeated by Keats-Rohan), and his son Roger from about 1130/1138.

1. Roger Fitz Wimer de Gressenhall, b. 1100 in of, Gressenhall, Norfolk, England     d. ABT 1140