John de Verdun

Abt 1226 - Abt 1274  (~ 48 years)

• Name	John de Verdun
  Born	Abt 1226	of Alton, Staffordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 17 Oct 1274
  Person ID	I7209	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Margery de Lacy,   d. 1256
  Married	Bef 20 Apr 1242
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F3200	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “MARGERY DE LACY (or LASCY), elder daughter. She was co-heiress to her brother, Walter de Lacy, sometime in the period, 1238 11. She was co-heiress in 1241 to her paternal grandfather, Walter de Lacy, Knt., by which she inherited half of Weobley barony, including the castles and half the manors of Weobley and Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, the borough of Ludlow, Shropshire, and the manors of Eastleach Turville, Gloucestershire, Stoke upon Tern, Shropshire, Bishampton and Stanford on Teme, Worcestershire, and half of the lordship of palatinate of Meath, together with the hereditary office of Constable of Ireland. She married before 20 April 1242 (as his 1st wife) JOHN DE VERDUN, Knt., of Alton, Staffordshire, Farnham, Buckinghamshire, Bittesby, Lutterworth, and Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire, Brandon (in Wolston), Bretford (in Wolston), and Fleclmoe (in Wolfhamcote), Warwickshire, Wilsford, Wiltshire, etc., and, in right of his 1st wife, hereditary Constable of Ireland, younger son of Thebaud (or Tebaud) le Boteler (or Butler), of Arklow, co. Wicklow, Ireland, by his 2nd wife, Rohese, daughter and heiress of Nicholas de Verdun. He was born about 1226, and took his mother's surname. They had four sons, Nicholas, John, Thebaud (or Tebaud), Knt. [1st Lord Verdun], and Thomas. They granted their share of the Lacy lands in England and Wales to their son Nicholas (John recovered the lands on Nicholas's death in 1271; in 1274 they passed to his younger son, Thebaud de Verdun). His wife, Margery, died in 1256. In May 1248 John was granted protection to go to Ireland, which he visited many times during his life. During the conflict between Simon de Montfort and the Crown, he followed the King. John was on crusade with Lord Edward in Sicily 15 Jan. 1270/1. He established the Franciscan Priory at Dundalk, co. Louth. He married (2nd) before 1267 ELEANOR DE BOHUN [see WILTON 7 for issue of this marriage]. They had one son, Humphrey, clerk, and one daughter, Maud (wife of John de Grey Knt. [2nd Lord Grey of Wilton]). SIR JOHN DE VERDUN died testate shortly before 1.7 October 1274. In 1275-6 John de Grey and Maud his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin his widow, Eleanor, regarding a tenement in Debden, Essex. The same year Robert son of Adam de Neuport arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against Eleanor regarding possessions in Sawbridge and Little Fleclmoe, Warwickshire. The same year Peter de Uppingham and Denise his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Eleanor and others regarding common of pasture in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. In 1278 Ela Longespée, Countess of Warwick, complained that when she sent John the reeve of Claverdon to Brandon Castle (in Wolston), Warwickshire with a letter for 10 marks which Thebaud de Verdun owed her as relief for the manor, Eleanor and her men took away the letter and imprisoned him for one night. In 1278 Eleanor claimed dower out of Grene, co. Limerick. Eleanor was living 10 June 1278. Sometime after this date, members of Eleanor's household petitioned the king, stating that she was mad and an imbecile, and requested a suitable wardship for her. Dugdale Antiqs. of Warwickshire (1730): 44 (Verdon ped.). Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 640 (Verdon ped.). Banks Baronies in Feel (1844): 445. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 150, 240, 299. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 8 (1887): 118. Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (1-I.S.P. 27) (1888): 132 (Verdon arms: Or, a fret gules). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 2 (1892): 142. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 241; n.s. 21(1905): 1-5. D.N.B. 20 (1899): 218-219. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 122; 3 (1920): 260-261, 286-287 (chart). C.P. 2 (1912): 448. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 261 (Lacy arms: Quarterly or and gules, a bend sable and a label argent); 4 (1924): 342 (Lacy arms: Or, a lion purpure). Ehrlich Procs. against the Crown (1216-1377) (Oxford Studies in Social & Legal Hist. 6) (1921): 221-222. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 227-228 (Verdun arms: Or, a fess gules). VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 201 (Verdon arms: Or, fretty gules); 5 (1949): 11; 6(1951): 13, 39, 82, 162, 269-270, 276. VCH Leicester 2 (1954): 27. VCH Oxford 6 (1959): 175. CF 12(2) (1959): 246-248. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 310:5 (second wife perhaps a Bohun); (1957) 557: 5. VCH Wiltshire 6 (1962): 215-216; 13 (1987): 43-44. VCH Oxford 9 (1969): 125. VCH Gloucester 7 (1981): 63. Moody et al. New Hist. of Ireland 9 (1984): 173 (chart). VCH Stafford 7 (1996): 181, 205, 221; 8 (1963): 212. Curia Regis Rolls 18 (1999): 84, 313. National Archives, DL 25/1920; SC 8/197/9824 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).”