[3] He was chaplain to Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor sometime before his appointment as bishop.
[2] Walter was consecrated on 15 April 1061[5] by Pope Nicholas II at Rome.
[7] They were unable to have the Archbishop of York consecrate them, because Ealdred, who was the appointee to York, had not yet received his pallium, the symbol of the authority of an archbishop, and was in fact traveling to Rome with Giso and Walter to receive it.
[2] After the Norman Conquest of England, Walter swore loyalty to William the Conqueror at Berkhamsted after the Battle of Hastings.
[2] The Vita Edwardi, the saint's life of King Edward the Confessor of England, said of Walter that he was "most suitably and excellently trained in office".