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Walter Cely, Essex landowner
Dates: died 1549
Walter Cely was an Essex landowner who acquired Albyns from the Crown in 1548 according to the published estate history.
View historical person →Walter Chaundler, Merchant in 1540, gentleman by 1546, Mayor of Winchester, 1530-1531
Dates: Died 1546
Winchester merchant who acquired the Abbots Barton lease from Thomas Wriothesley in 1540 and was described as a gentleman at his death in 1546.
View historical person →Walter Chetwynd, Member of Parliament for Stafford and Lichfield, Master of the Buckhounds, Chief Ranger of St James's Park, Baron of Rathdowne, 1st Viscount Chetwynd
Dates: c. 1660–1736
A Staffordshire landowner and politician of the Chetwynd family of Ingestre. He represented Stafford and Lichfield and held royal household and park offices before receiving Irish peerages. The…
View historical person →Walter de Aylesbury, Holder of Aldbury
Dates: active 1309
Purchaser of Aldbury from Joan de Criol and Sir Richard de Rokeslegh in 1309.
View historical person →Walter de Claville, Domesday tenant-in-chief, Norman landholder
Dates: floruit 1086
Walter de Claville was an Anglo-Norman landholder recorded in Domesday Book as holding estates in Dorset and Devon, including a portion associated with Afflington.
View historical person →Walter de Dunstanvill, Lord of Adderley, member of the Dunstanvill family
Dates: fl. 1175-1190
A twelfth-century Dunstanvill lord who created a park at Adderley and dealt with Shrewsbury Abbey over adjoining woodland.
View historical person →Walter de Dunstanvill, Lord of Adderley, holder in capite of the Crown
Dates: fl. 1255
A mid-thirteenth-century Dunstanvill lord recorded in the Bradford Hundred Roll as holding Adderley and performing knight service for it and Idsall.
View historical person →Walter de Dunstanville, Baron of Castle Combe, as described in the Stert record
Dates: fl. 1242
A member of the Dunstanville family who held the Lordship of Stert in 1242 as of the barony of Castle Combe.
View historical person →Walter de Grey, Archbishop of York
Dates: Archbishop of York, 1216-1255
Medieval archbishop of York associated with the final archiepiscopal phase before Acomb was placed under the Treasurer of York Minster.
View historical person →Walter de Hatheway, Lord of Ganerew, Herefordshire, 1357
Dates: fl. 1357
A fourteenth-century landholder recorded as Lord of Ganerew in 1357 and identified in the registry as the son and successor of William de Hatheway.
View historical person →Walter de Hopton, Mesne lord or suzerain of Alcaston, lord of Hopton, Holder associated with the Barony of Wem by marriage
Dates: Flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century and early fourteenth century
A Hopton lord who held the superior interest over Alcaston in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
View historical person →Walter de Istelep, Clerk, life grantee of specified lands in Baronsrath
Dates: fl. 1318
Walter de Istelep, clerk, received a life grant of specified lands in Baronsrath and Kyllyn under William de London's 1318 charter.
View historical person →Walter de la Lee
Dates: Died 1395
Holder and successor of John de la Lee; died leaving three sisters as heirs after his son Thomas predeceased him without issue.
View historical person →Walter de Lacy, Marcher lord, feudal lord of Weobley and associated Herefordshire estates
Dates: died 1241
Walter de Lacy was a prominent Marcher lord whose estates lay chiefly in the Welsh Marches. He founded or endowed religious houses including Aconbury Priory, to which the…
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