Beatrice de Offley ¹

  General Notes:

She may have been a Staffordshire Offley, rather than from Offaly in Ireland. The Offley family was in residence at High Offley within a century of this time. ("Offley" is a Saxon, not an Irish, name, deriving from "Offa" (Saxon name, in fact the name of one of the most powerful Kings of Mercia) and "-leage", woodland clearing.)

There is also some question as to whether Great Offley in Herts, or High Offley in Staffordshire, is the older. The Hertfordshire and Staffordshire Offleys are both listed in Domesday, and each as two associated properties - Great and Little Offley in Hertfordshire (Offelie and Altera Offelie), and High Offley (Offelie) and Bishops Offley (Offeleia) in Staffordshire.

Beatrice married Walter FitzOtho Castellan of Windsor, son of Otho and Unknown. (Walter FitzOtho Castellan of Windsor was born about 1037 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales and died about 1086 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales.)