# Henry fitzGerold

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{{short description|12th-century Anglo-Norman royal official}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name               = Henry fitzGerold
|image              =
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|alt                =
|caption            =
|office             = Constable of [Wallingford Castle](/source/Wallingford_Castle)
|term_start         = 1154
|term_end           = 1158
|office2            = Chamberlain to [Henry II of England](/source/Henry_II_of_England)
|term_start2        = [c.](/source/Wiktionary%3Acirca) 1158
|term_end2          = 1170
|death_date         = 1174–1175
|resting_place       = [Reading Abbey](/source/Reading_Abbey)
|spouse             = Matilda de Chesney
|relations          = Warin fitzGerold (brother)
|children           = [Warin the Younger](/source/Warin_II_fitzGerold)<br/>Henry
}}

'''Henry fitzGerold''' (sometimes '''Henry Fitz Gerald'''<ref name=Vincent233/> or '''Henry Fitzgerald''';<ref name=DNB>Vincent "Fitzgerald, Henry (d. 1170x74)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref> died [c.](/source/Wiktionary%3Acirca) 1174) was a 12th-century [Anglo-Norman](/source/Anglo-Normans) nobleman and government official.

==Early life==
FitzGerold was probably the son of Robert fitzGerald, an [Essex](/source/Essex) landowner.<ref name=DNB/> Henry definitely had a brother named Warin.<ref name=DD893/> The brothers' first appearance in the documentary record was as witnesses to the foundation document of [Walden Abbey](/source/Walden_Abbey), sometime between 1138 and 1144. Henry subsequently witnessed a number of the future King [Henry II](/source/Henry_II_of_England)'s charters before the latter's accession to the throne of England. Soon after 1154, he was appointed constable of [Wallingford Castle](/source/Wallingford_Castle). Henry II sent him to [Sens](/source/Sens) on a diplomatic mission to the pope in 1163.<ref name=Vincent237>Vincent "Warin and Henry Fitz Gerald" ''Anglo-Norman Studies'' pp. 237–239</ref>

==Career==
FitzGerold was the steward to [Geoffrey de Mandeville](/source/Geoffrey_de_Mandeville%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Essex), the [Earl of Essex](/source/Earl_of_Essex), from around 1154, as well as holding land worth 4 [knight's fees](/source/knight's_fees) from Mandeville. From 1158 to 1170 he was [chamberlain](/source/Chamberlain_(office)) to Henry II, succeeding his brother Warin.<ref name=DD893/> Besides the lands held of Mandeville, Henry and Warin acquired the majority of the lands of [Eudo Dapifer](/source/Eudo_Dapifer);<ref name=Vincent233>Vincent "Warin and Henry Fitz Gerald" ''Anglo-Norman Studies'' pp. 233–235</ref> Henry's share amounted to more than 50 knight's fees in Essex in 1166.<ref name=Vincent237/> FitzGerold also had the farm of the royal manor of [Sutton Courtenay](/source/Sutton_Courtenay) in [Berkshire](/source/Berkshire), which was worth £50 per annum.  From 1166 until 1168 he was responsible for royal payments to knights in [Kent](/source/Kent). He also served as a [royal justice](/source/royal_justice) in Kent during 1168–1169.<ref name=DNB/>

==Death and legacy==
FitzGerold married Matilda de Chesney, the heiress of [William de Chesney](/source/William_de_Chesney). They had two sons, Warin and Henry. The elder fitzGerold died in 1174–1175,<ref name=DD893>Keats-Rohan ''Domesday Descendants'' p. 893</ref> and was survived by Matilda and his sons. He was buried at [Reading Abbey](/source/Reading_Abbey).<ref name=Vincent237/> Besides grants to Reading, he had also given gifts to [Southwark Priory](/source/Southwark_Priory) and to the cathedral chapter of [Rochester Cathedral](/source/Rochester_Cathedral).<ref name=DNB/>

FitzGerold's eldest son [Warin](/source/Warin_II_fitzGerold) inherited the majority of his father's estates. Warin married Alice de Courcy.<ref name=Vincent237/> Warin's daughter Margaret married Baldwin de Redvers, and their son was [Baldwin de Redvers](/source/Baldwin_de_Redvers%2C_6th_Earl_of_Devon), the sixth [Earl of Devon](/source/Earl_of_Devon).<ref name=DNB/> The younger Henry married Ermentrude Talbot and became prominent in the service of [William Marshall](/source/William_Marshal%2C_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke), the first [Earl of Pembroke](/source/Earl_of_Pembroke).<ref name=Vincent237/>

==Citations==
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==References==
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* {{cite book |author=Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. |title=Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum |authorlink=Katharine Keats-Rohan |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Ipswich, UK |year=2002 |isbn=0-85115-863-3 }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |author=Vincent, Nicholas |title=Fitzgerald, Henry (d. 1170x74) |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/48115 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48115 |accessdate=4 November 2011 |url-access=subscription }} {{ODNBsub}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |author=Vincent, Nicholas |title=Warin and Henry Fitz Gerald, the King's Chamberlains: The Origins of the Fitzgeralds Revisited |encyclopedia=Anglo-Norman Studies XXI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1998 |year=1999 |editor=Harper-Bill, Christopher |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Woodbridge, UK |isbn=0-85115-745-9 |pages=233–260 }}
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