Hervey Walter
d. 1168
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Hervey Walter of Norfolk married into the Glanville family and fathered two of the ablest men of their age, the first Butler of Ireland and an Archbishop of Canterbury.
Research notes
HERVEY WALTER (d.c.1168); m. Maud de Valognes; father of Theobald Walter 1st Chief Butler (our line). DOCUMENTED FLOOR of the Butler paternal line; ancestry above note-only. Standard documented Anglo-Norman/Irish genealogy per the cited authorities; contested rungs note-only, not hardened. ||26 Oct 2026|| CP II 'Butler' p.447: 'Hervey Walter, of West Dereham, Norfolk (owner of large estates in Norfolk and Suffolk)'; his father and he held lands in Suffolk and Norfolk inherited by Theobald (ODNB 'Hubert Walter'). Six sons: Theobald (1st Butler), Hubert (Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor, d.1205), Osbert fitz Hervey (royal justice, d.1206), Roger, Hamo, Bartholomew. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. II (1912), 'Butler' pp.447-449 (archive.org completepeerageo02coka), read 26 Oct 2026.