Otho ¹

  General Notes:

Otho (recte: Other) was the common ancestor of the FitzGeralds and Windsors. If I'm not mistaken, he was Lord of Stanwell (or else, his holdings are unknown). It was his son Walter Fitz Other who served as Castellan of Windsor, and established the connection there. "Domesday does not state that his lands have been held by his father, but, on the contrary, proves them to have belonged to forfeited Englishmen."

The form "Other" points away from Tuscany and toward Scandinavia: it is cognate with Old English "Ohthere" (as in the 9th century Norwegian traveler who visited King Alfred's court) and Old Norse "Óttarr" (as in the semi-legendary Swedish king Óttarr Vendelkraka, fl. 6th century). "[The] name can be reconstructed as Proto-Norse *Ohta-harjaz or *Ohtu-harjaz. The harjaz element is common in Germanic names and has a meaning of "warrior, army" (whence English harry); by contrast, the oht element is less frequent, and has been tentatively interpreted as "fearsome, feared"." (Derived from Peterson, Lena. Lexikon över urnnordiska personnamn PDF Archived 2006-09-15 at the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20060911004005/http://www.sofi.se/images/NA/pdf/urnord.pdf ) Norse elements in Norman names are well attested: https://opendomesday.org/name/

Otho married.