"Walter of Salisbury, styled also Walter FitzEdward and Walter the Sheriff, s. and h.,[footnote (f) Walterus, Edwardi vicecomitis filius ... (His charter for Salisbury, in Reg. St. Osmund, Rolls Ser., vol. i, p. 237). Two hides at Warminster, "quas Walterus filius Edwardi tenuit," were confirmed to St. Mary's, Sarum, by Henry I, circa 1115, and Henry II, 1158 (Idem, vol. i, pp. 202, 204); see also follg. note.] was sheriff of Wilts under Henry l;[footnote (g) A royal writ is addressed to the Bishops of Winchester and Salisbury and Walter the Sheriff (Galbraith, in Eng. Hist. Review, vol. xxxv, p. 392, no. xxvi; "1100-21," but it cannot be earlier than 1107). A charter of Q. Maud (1111-13) is addressed to the Bishop of Salisbury, Walter FitzEdward (evidently as sheriff) and others (Goodman, Chartulary of Winchester Cathedral, no. 220; Farrer, Itin. Henry I, no. 296).] but lost the office for a time in that reign. [footnote (h) The King directed William, sheriff of Wilts, to convene the hundred of "Chembrucge" and summon Walter de Salisbury to do right there to the monks of Winchester concerning the land on which he had encroached (Eng. Hist. Review, vol. xxxv, pp. 392-935 no. xxvii).] In 1130 he was acquitted of £4 Danegeld in Dorset and of £7 in Wilts.[footnote (l) Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I, pp. 15, 22.] He was present at the Council of Northampton, Sep. 1131.[footnote (j) When he attested a charter as Walter de Salisbury [Sarum Charters, Rolls Ser., p. 7).] He was with Stephen at Westminster at Easter 1136,[footnote (k) Liber Niger, ed. Hearne, p. 811 ; cf. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 264.] and at Salisbury at Christmas 1139.[footnote (l) Sarum Charters, pp. 11, 266.] He founded the Priory of Bradenstoke, Wilts;[footnote (m) Dugdale, Mon., vol. vi, p. 338.] and was a benefactor to Salisbury Cathedral.[footnote (a) See note "g" below.] He m. Sibyl, da. of Patrick de Chaources [Chaworth], by Maud, da. of Ernulf De Hesdin;[footnote (b)Barkly, in Genealogist., N.S., vol. v, pp. 209-10; cf. Watson in Idem., vol. xii, pp. 117, 118; Round, in Idem., vol. xviii, p. 12, note 5; Feudal England., p. 109; and Cal. Docs., p. xlvii and no. 1033; Dunstable Cartulary (Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc), no. 243.] which Sibyl had as her marriage-portion 15 fees of the old feoffment and one newly made.[footnote (c)According to her son's carta in 1166 (Red Book of the Exchequer, Rolls Ser., p. 241).] She d. before her husband and was bur. near the quire in Bradenstoke.[footnote (d)Dugdale, Man., vol. vi, p. 501.] He took the habit of a canon there, d. in 1147,[footnote (e) Barkly, in Genealogist, ut supra.] and was bur. in the same grave as his wife.[footnote (f) Dugdale, Mon., loc. ult. cit. He had 3 sons, William, Patrick (see text), and Walter, a canon of Bradenstoke. His da. Sibyl m., as his 2nd wife, John FitzGilbert, alias John the Marshal (see ante, vol. x, Appendix G, p. 95).][footnote (g) Walterus, Edwardi vicecomitis filius, et Sibilla uxor mea et heres noster comes Patricius ... nominatim pro anima Willelmi filii nostri fratris comitis Patricii in restauramentum dampnorum quae praenominatus filius noster Willelmus Sarum ecclesie fecerit (Reg. St. Osmund, vol. i, p. 237). That William was the eldest son seems fairly certain from his position at Salisbury (see note "i" below and his importance; cf. the passage in the Polycraticus, referring to the death of 7 magnates, in which William is named with 6 Earls (Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 276).]" [1]
[1] George E. Cokayne and Geoffrey H White, ed., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 11, Rickerton to Sisonby (London: St Catherine Press, 1949), 374, of 374-75.