Sir Walter Dalyngridge Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²³⁵
Sir Richard Berners of West-Horseley, Knight, married Philippa, daughter and heir of Sir Edward ('s brother Walter) Delingregge of Bodiam Castle in Surry, Knight, died 2 Oct 9 Henry V.

Berner Pedigree from The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, Volume I, pp. 315-316

• Web Reference: Dalyngride Family.
From Sir John Lewknor's Dynastic Loyalty and Debt: "Walter Dallingridge was the brother of Sir Edward Dallingridge, a leading servant of the earl of Arundel". According to a footnote to the testament of William Mowbray, his wife was Margaret, daughter and heir of John Chaumont who after his death married Walter de Dallingridge. (Testamenta Eboracensia). In the Chancery Inq. p.m. 21 Henry VI, nº 52 Walter is named as brother of John son of Edward. Please the different statements above. It seems that the last word of the Dallingridge pedigree has not been spoken yet.

Traces of his activities:

1375 - Commission to John de Arundel, Walter Dalyngrugge and others to arrest John Basset, William de Tracy and others and commit them to the nearest prison for safekeeping until further order for their delivery. (Cal. Pat. Rolls)

1385 - Grant during the minority of the heir to Walter Dalyngrugg, of the custody of William Upton, bondman of the son and heir of Edward le Despenser, tenant in chief.

In 1388 Walter was member of a commission of array to set up beacons warning the population of the imminent invasion of the French.

1392 commission of peace and of oyer and terminer along with his brother Edward, William Brenchesle (husband of Joan Batisford), in Sussex.

1394 and 1397 - he appears in lists headed by John (of Gaunt), Duke of Lancaster, Richard earl of Arundel, and Thomas [Mowbray], earl marshal, in Sussex. The year 1394 also sees him as a member of a commission to enquire what lieges of the king were in contact with the French or foreign merchants. (C.P.R.)

Walter was summoned for array in Sussex in 1394 and 1397. He was living in 1398 (Bodiam and his Lords, SAC). There is a brass in Fletching church showing him and his wife

• Background Information: Berners from Corrections and Additions to the Complete Peerage.
Volume 2, page 153 (as corrected in volume 14):
He [Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners (d. 1474)] m. Margery, widow of John Ferreby (who d.s.p.; will dat. 1 Oct., pr. 12 Nov. 1441), and daughter and heir of Richard Berners, of West Horsley, Surrey ... by Philippe, da. of Sir Edward Dalyngride.

Philippe was the daughter of Walter Dalyngridge, the younger brother of Sir Edward.

Richard Dalyngridge (d.1470/1) was the son of Walter, and the cousin of Sir John, the son of Sir Edward [Victoria County History Sussex vol.7, p.257 and vol.9, p.263 and G.N. Curzon, Bodiam Castle, Sussex, p.30 (1926), both citing Chancery Inq. p.m. 21 Henry VI, no 52]. Richard was succeeded by Sir Roger Lewknor, the son of his sister Philippe [Victoria County History Sussex vol.7, p.258, citing Chancery Inq. p.m. 11 Edward IV, no 48].