Walter de Belmeis

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 132B:27, father of Philip de Belmeis, lord of Ton, Salop, and Ashby in Leicestershire. Father-in-law fo maud la Meschin, daughter of William Meschin. ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ²⁰⁶
Walter was the brother of Richard de Belmeis, who was consecrated bishop of London in 1108. The bishop died in 1126, and his successor in Tong, was Philip de Belemis, the son of Water. Philip likely died in the year 1150, and was succeeded by his eldest son, by his wife Matilda, daughter of William Meschin, who was also named Philip.

~ Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Series I, Vol. XVII, pp. 141-142