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BUCKINGHAM 387 of Evreux, da. of Gerald Flaitel, sue. his father (who had received grants of no less than 107 Lordships, of which 48 were in Bucks) before 1085, when he was Justiciar of England, and was en, in allprobability by William II after 1093, (^) EARL OF BUCKINGHAM, though known contem- porarily as Earl Giffard-C') He m. Agnes, sister of Anselm de Ribemont. He d. 1 5 July 1 102, in England, and was bur. at Longueville, in Normandy. M.L II. 1 102 2. Walter (Giffard), Earl OF Buckingham, though to known as Earl GiffardjC') also Lord of Longueville in 1 1 64. Normandy, s. and h., a minor at his father's death. He fought at the battle of Brenneville in Normandy in 1 1 19, and is said by some (but probably erroneously) to have been Chief Marshal of the King's Court. He m. Ermengarde, with whom he was founder of, or benefactor to, the Abbey of Notley, Bucks. He d. s.p., 11 64, and was bur. there. III. 1 164. I. Richard (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke (the to famous "Strongbow"), who, in 1149, had sue. his 1 1 76. father in that Earldom, being great-grandson of Richard FitzGilbert, by Rohese, sister of Walter, ist Earl of Buckingham above-mentioned, having inherited some of the lands of his said ancestor,() is stated to have called himself (rightly or wrongly) and to have been generally considered EARL OF BUCKINGHAM. He d s.p.m., 1 176. See fuller account under "Pembroke," Earldom of, cr. 1138. the s. of Osborn de Bolebec, by Aveline, sister of Gunner, wife of Richard, Duke of the Normans. (^) H. J. Ellis writes that he has little doubt that the Earldom was conferred by William Rufus; and calls attention to an interesting charter penes Eton College, in which Walter grants the manor of Great Blakenham, Suffolk, to Bee Abbey. This document is witnessed by the King and other notables, and can be shown pretty con- clusively to have been attested during the vacancy of the see of Canterbury 1089-93; therein he is simply called " Walterus Giffardus," so presumably had not then received the Earldom. H. J. Ellis adds that in the few later charters in which he has found Walter's name occurring as Earl, he is always designated Comes Gijfardus. V.G. (^) Examples of " the system, or rather want of system," in the nomenclature of the English Earls during the nth and 12th centuries are given in Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville: thus the Earls of Hertford, Surrey, Derby, and Buckingham, are usually spoken of by their family names of Clare, Warenne, Ferrers, and GifFard, but the Earls of Norfolk, Essex, Devon, and Cornwall, by the names of their respective counties. (^) It is pointed out by J. H. Round that Richard being but a cadet of the House of Clare could not have inherited any lands in virtue of this descent, though the bulk of the GifFard estates was undoubtedly obtained by his son-in-law, William (Marshal), Earl of Pembroke. V.G.