GLOUCESTER

Information on this page from Windows Into Our Past, A Genealogy of the Parsons, Smith and Associated Families, Vol. 1 ©1996, Judy Parsons Smith

Walter Gautier

Walter Gautier , constable of Henry I.  Walter Gautier had a son:

Roger de Pitres

Roger de Pitres , son of Walter Gautier .  Roger de Pitres was a contemporary of William the Conqueror  and sheriff of Gloucester .   Roger de Pitres had a son, who had:

Milo of Gloucester  aka Milon, Miles Fitz Walter

Milo of Gloucester  (Milon, Miles Fitz Walter ), grand son of Roger de Pitres , d. 25 December 1143, of a hunting accident; m. 1121 to Sybyl, sole heiress of Bernard   de Newmarch .

Milo inherited his father's lands in Gloucestershire.  He also became heir to lands of his father-in-law Bernard  de Newmarch .  Milo became earl of Hereford in 1141. His family should not be confused with the earls of Gloucester.

Milo & Sybyl (de Newmarch)  of Gloucester  had seven (7) children:

1.       Margery (Marguerite, Margaret) , m. Humphrey III, son of Humphrey II  & Maud (de Salisbury) de Bohon , b. 1109; d. 6 April 1187; bur. at the Lanthony Abbey (Gloucestershire).  See de Bohun.
2.       Roger, d. 1155.  No issue
3.       Walter, d. before 1166 .  No issue.
4.       Henry, d. before 1166 .  No issue.
5.       Mahel, d. before 1166 .  No issue.
6.       Bertha , m. Philip de Brause
7.       Lucy de Gloucester