1. EDWARD-
b. before 1060
m.1. ______
2. Matilda, d. of Ralph Fitz Hubert
d. before 1120
The "Book of Lacock" states that Edward was the son of "Walterus le Ewrus, comes de Rosmar", however, the "Complete Peerage" states that Walter was probably fictitious so Edward's parentage remains unknown.(1)
Edward was the richest English tenant-in-chief in Domesday Book. He was the Sheriff of Wiltshire and was the baron of Chitterne, Wiltshire and also held the land that became the barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
Issue- first two children by first wife, last child by Matilda
Ref:
(1) Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey- W.L.Bowles, J.G. Nichols, London, 1835- App. I, Book of Lacock, p. i; The Complete Peerage- St. Catherine Press, London- Vol. XI, pp. 373-4
Domesday People- K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Boydell Press, 1999- pp. 186-7
Domesday Descendants- K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Boydell Press, 2002- p. 45
English Baronies- I.J. Sanders, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1963- pp. 91, 112