Walter of Saint-Valéry (d. after 1098), son of Bernard I of Saint-Valéry. Lord of Isleworth and Hampton in Middlesex, Creeting in Suffolk. Walter was a participant in the

First Crusade The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic ru ...

, accompanying Robert of Normandy as a member of Robert's army. He was present at the

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in 1097 and scouted with the Turkish Christian convert Bohemond the army of Ridwan before the

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. He guarded

Adhemar of Le Puy Adhemar (also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz) de Monteil (died 1 August 1098) was one of the principal figures of the First Crusade and was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087. He was the chosen representative of Pope Urban II for th ...

in the mountains near the port of Simeon after finding what was thought to be the

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. Walter married Hodierna of Montlhéry, daughter of

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and

Hodierna of Gometz Hodierna (Hodierne) of Gometz (died 1108), sister of William, Lord of Gometz, and wife of Guy I of Montlhéry. She made great donations to the new religious of the order of Saint-Benoît, installed in the Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Garde Basilica of Long ...

. Walter and Hodierna had two sons: * Bernard II of Saint-Valéry * Eudon of Saint-Valéry. took the cross and participated in the First Crusade. Bernard II was present with his father at the siege of Nicaea.

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* Runciman, Steven, ''A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem'', Cambridge University Press, London, 1951 * * Riley-Smith, Jonathan, ''The First Crusaders, 1095-1131'', Cambridge University Press, 1997 * La Monte, John L., ''The Lords of Le Puiset on the Crusade''s, Speculum, 1942 * Chibnall, Marjorie (translator), ''The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis'', Oxford Medieval Texts, Oxford, 1968–1980 * {{cite book , editor-last=Edgington , editor-first=Susan B. , title=Albert of Aachen: Historia Ierosolimitana, History of the Journey to Jerusalem , publisher=Clarendon Press , series=Oxford Medieval Texts , year=2007 , isbn=978-0-19-920486-1 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29ivdUpWBj8C Christians of the First Crusade 11th-century French people