Page:The history of Fulk Fitz-Warine - tr. Kemp-Welch - 1904.djvu/17

 Antiquities of Shropshire. It has been admirably summarized by Mr. H. L. D. Ward, whose own words we cannot do better than quote. "The romancer," he says, "has entirely forgotten Fulk I., who died before Michaelmas, 1171, but the other genealogical matters seem to be fairly correct. It is quite certain that Fulk II., who died before Michaelmas, 1198, really married Haweis de Dinan; that the Fitz-Warins had long-standing claims to the castle of Whittington; that the castle was delivered over to the Welsh Prince Meuric; that Fulk III. consequently rebelled in 1201; and that this outlawry was revoked on the 15th November, 1203. Among the fifty-two names of his companions attached to the pardon are those of William Fitz-Fulk and Philip and Ivo Fitzwarin, probably all three of them brothers of Fulk III., and also those of Baldwin de Hodenet and William Malveissin ... It is also certain that Fulk III. married Matilda, the widow of Theobald Walter ... On the other hand, it is equally certain that Theobald Walter is mentioned as still alive on the 4th August, 1205, though he seems to have died before October 8 of that year ... Fulk rose again in arms in the Easter-