Walter Giffard Lord of Boyton

  Noted events in his life were:

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Hellias or Elias Giffard of Brimsfield succed his father after 1130. He married Berta de Clifford. A is named a "the Boy" in records, likely to distinguished him from his father. He is named in such way with his wife Berta and his son Walter in the time of Abbot Hamelin, who was abbot from 1148 until 1179. He granted the church of boyton to the monks for the soul of his wife Berta, and his son Walter confrimed this grant. The children of Elias and Berta were:

Elias (Hellias)
Walter of Boyton, whose name, with that of his brother Gilbert, appears in records from 1177
Gilbert

~The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1921, Vol. 75, pps. 59-60