1. Cited in J. Fletcher, The Cistercians
in Yorkshire (London, 1919), p. 39.
2. Alternatively, Walter’s family may have come from Quesnai, near St-Etienne-de-la-Taillial,
Auge, see J. Green, The Government of England under Henry I (Cambridge, 1986),
pp. 245-6.
3. For an extensive discussion of Kirkham, see J. Burton, ‘Kirkham Priory
from Foundation to Dissolution’, University of York Borthwick Papers no.
86 (1995).
4. The exact date of Walter’s death is not known but he had certainly died
by 1158, see Green, Government of England, p. 245.
