Research Notes:
"The family of Waller derives from Alfred de Waller, of Newark, co. Nottingham, who d. 1183, and from whom lineally descended, David de Waller, for thirty years master of the rolls to King Edward III. This David d. s. p. His only brother, Henry Waller, of Hockerton, who m. Alicia de Mortimer, and was father of Thomas, father of John, father of Sir Richard Waller, of Speldhurst, Kent, sheriff of that county, 16th Henry VI., and of whom we read this remarkable account in the Villare Cantium :—" He served in the wars of France under Henry V, and signalised himself so far that he took Charles, Duke of Orleans, general of the French army, prisoner at the battle of Agincourt. He brought him to England, and as appears from a MS. at the Heralds' Office, kept him prisoner, for 24 years, at his seat, Groombridge, near Speldhurst, co. Kent. He was a great benefactor to the church at Speldhurst, where his arms still remain in stonework over the porch. In them we find an addition to the former bearing of the family, assigned by King Henry to him and to descendants, viz., a crest with the arms of France differenced by a label hanging on an oak with this motto, "Hic fructus virtutis.'" Sir Richard m. Silvia Gulby, and had Richard, m. the dau. and heiress of Edmund Brudenhell, Esq of Buanr, Bucks, and John Waller, who m. a dau. of William Whetenhall, of Heckhurst, and dying in 1516, left a son, William Waller, of Groombridgo, high sheriff of Kent, 1537." [1] [2] [3]
[1] John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Fourth Edition, Vol. II (London: Harrison, 1863), 1594, [GoogleBooks].
[2] John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Fifth Edition, Vol. II (London: Harrison, 1871), 1454, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II (London: Harrison, 1858), 1271, [HathiTrust].