General Notes

Roesia de Verdon m. Theobald Le Botiller, of the noble family of Butler, of Ireland, but being so great an heiress, retained her maiden name after marriage, which her husband adopted. At the time of her father's decease, she appears to have been a widow. This lady, who founded the abbey of Grace Dieu, for Cistercian Monks, at Beldon, Leicestershire, d. in 1248, leaving issue, John, her heir; Humphrey, rector of Alveton, d. at Paris, 1285; Nicholas, who had the manor of Clumore, in Ireland, d. s.p.; Theobald, ancestor of the Verdons, Lords of Darlaston and Biddulph, co. Stafford; Maud, m. to John Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel. Roesia was s. by her eldest son, John de Verdon (alias Le Botiller). [Sir Bernard Burke, History of the Colonial Gentry, London, 1891-5, Vol. I, p. 234]