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Family of Walter * of NORWICH and Katherine * of HEDERSETT

Husband: Walter * of NORWICH (1274-1316)
Wife: Katherine * of HEDERSETT (1282-1343)
Children: Margaret * of NORWICH (1302-1381)
Katherine of NORWICH (1306- )
Marriage 1305 Stoke, Norfolk, England

Husband: Walter * of NORWICH

Name: Walter * of NORWICH
Sex: Male
Father: Geoffrey * of NORWICH (1250-1328)
Mother: Cecily * of VALOINES (1281-1325)
Birth 1274 Sculthorpe, Norfolk, England
Occupation Baron of Norwich
Death 1316 (age 41-42) Stoke, Norfolk, England
Burial Norwich Cathedral

Wife: Katherine * of HEDERSETT

Name: Katherine * of HEDERSETT
Sex: Female
Father: John * of HEDERSETE (1253-1282)
Mother: Margery * (1246- )
Birth 1282 Cruchestoke, Norfolk, England
Occupation Baroness of Norwich
Death Oct 1343 (age 60-61) Norwich, Norfolkshire, England

Child 1: Margaret * of NORWICH

Name: Margaret * of NORWICH
Sex: Female
Spouse: William *of POLE (1302-1336)
Birth 1302 Stoke, Norfolk, England
Occupation Countess of Suffolk
Death 28 Jan 1381 (age 78-79) Yorkshire, England

Child 2: Katherine of NORWICH

Name: Katherine of NORWICH
Sex: Female
Birth 1306

Note on Husband: Walter * of NORWICH

WALTER DE NORWICH had a protection February 1297, and, as the King's clerk, in December 1299 licence to inclose a lane adjoining his messuage in Norwich. He was Remembrancer of the Exchequer, March 1307/8, appointed a Baron, August 1311; Chief

Baron, March 1311/2; Treasurer (after serving several periods as deputy Treasurer), September 1314 to May 1317. In 1315, for his good services as Treasurer, he had a grant of 1,000 marks, to maintain his state more honourably in the King's

service. Keeper of the office of the Treasurer, November 1319 to February following, and again in 1321, 1322, and 1324. He was summoned to Councils at York and Lincoln, January and June 1312, and (among the justices) to Parliaments, July 1312

onwards. As farmer of the custody of the lands of Thomas de Cailly, during the minority of the heir, he was Keeper of Buckenham Castle, August 1316 till September 1325. In July 1322 he was a member of the commission to try the Mortimers, and in

1324 was returned by the sheriff of Norfolk as summoned to attend the Great Council at Westminster.

 

He m. Catherine, da. of Sir John DE HEDERSETE, and widow of Piers BRAUNCHE. He died between 12 April 1328 and 20 February 1328/9, and was buried in Norwich Cathedral. His widow had writ for dower, and died between January 1340/1 and October