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by Ordericus Yitalis, a contemporary writer, that was probably the 

 name of his mother, who may have been the above-mentioned 

 Adeliza herself, the widow of Reginald de Dunstanville. The 

 second baron of this name Reginald (or Robert), had an elder son, 

 Walter, who married Ursula, daughter and coheiress of Earl 

 Reginald, his cousin probably on the mother's side, and received 

 from the latter by way of dower, among other estates, release of a 

 head-rent of £10 a-year, due to him from the Manor of Combe, 

 and also one-half of the Manor of Colerne. To this Walter 

 Camden ascribes the erection of the castle, but on what authority 

 is not known. It was more probably built by an earlier gene- 

 ration, and before the accession of Stephen. Walter de Dunstanville 

 died in 1194, leaving an infant heir of the same name, whose ward- 

 ship was granted in the second year of King John, for a fine of 

 500 marks to his cousins Thomas, Alan, and Gilbert Basset, sons 

 of Lord Basset of Hedendon, by Adeliza, sister to the first Walter. 

 The second baron of that name attended King John in his expe- 

 dition into Poictou, and received from him the charter of a market 

 and fair to his Manor of Heytesbury, which had been granted to 

 his grandfather Robert, by King Henry II. He married Matilda, 

 daughter and coheiress of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, 

 and widow of William Warren, Earl of Warren and Surrey, by 

 whom she had a son, Walter, third and last baron of that name, 

 who had livery of his lands on the death of his father, in 1240. 

 He figured among the rebel barons who defeated and took prisoner 

 King Henry III. at the battle of Lewes; after which he was 

 appointed by his brethren in arms governor of the Castle of Sarum. 

 This nobleman had for his first wife, Isabel, daughter and heiress 

 of Thomas de Clare, brother of Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester. Hying 

 in 1270, he left only a daughter and heiress, Petronilla, then 22 

 years of age and wedded to Sir Robert de Montfort, by whom 

 she had a son, William de Montfort, heir of course to her 

 estates. She, however, on the death of Sir Robert, remarried 

 to Sir John Delamare of Bradwell, who by " the courtesy of 

 England" enjoyed his wife's estates for the term of his life. 

 And as this was a long one, too long at least for the patience of 



