Nest was a Welsh princess and therefore highly regarded by the Welsh people. Her later affair with Henry, the king’s brother, and her subsequent marriage to Gerald of Windsor, the son of Walter Fitz Otho, the castellan of Windsor Castle, suggest Windsor as her destination. Windsor Castle was a Royal Court Castle and a favourite haunt of Prince Henry. Left to the mercies of her Norman captors, she was possibly given to a family in the pay of King William Rufus.
Nest’s father died at the Battle of Brecon (1093). Nest was born into a troubled and often violent time, less than twenty years after the invasion by William the Conqueror and the coming of the Normans. Her beauty allegedly inspired such a passion in the men in her life that it sparked a scandal that rocked the world of medieval Wales to its foundations. She had three further lovers, two husbands, and potentially fourteen children. Nest (b.c.1085 ) was the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, King of Deheubarth, and the lover of the future King of England.
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