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Jane Walcot [2207] (1300-) |
Jane Walcot [2207]
General Notes: Believed to have been of Saxon origin, we first encounter this family in the eleventh century when a large tract of land was said to have been given to the Bishop of Hereford by the owner of estates in Lydbury. A defensive castle was erected from which the present town of Bishop's Castle took its name. Eyton[1] tells us three knights were alternately assigned to "keep watch and ward for certain days" at the castle and identifies them as Walcot, Plowden and Oakley. We suspect this was in the days when Gruffudd ap Llewelyn (ob 1063) ruled all of Wales and made a number of military incursions across the border into England. Although towns later grew up in that part of Shropshire (then called Salop) called Walcot and Plowden and Oakley, nothing more is heard of the Walcot family until 1191. Jane married lord of Garthmyl Dafydd ap Rhys Walcot [2206] [MRIN: 899], son of Rhys ap Lorwerth [2208] and Jonet ferch Einion " Penn " [2209]. (lord of Garthmyl Dafydd ap Rhys Walcot [2206] was born in 1300 in Garthmyl, Aberriw, Montgomeryshire, Wales.) |
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