 FitzWimarc was a Frenchman and was one of Edward the Confessor's closest aides; he has a school named after him in Rayleigh, Essex.The site at Clavering is identified as one of the castles to which the French party at Edward the Confessor's court fled in 1052.A stone coffin was found in 1923 and is believed to have contained the remains of a Clavering lord