Theobald 2nd Baron de Verdun , MP, Sir 
Theobald 2nd Baron de was born on September 8th, 1278 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. Theobald 2nd Baron de's father was Theobald 1st Baron de Verdun , Sir and his mother was Margery (Margaret) de Bohun , Heiress of Bisley. His paternal grandparents were John le Botiller de John le , Sir/, Sir/John de and Margaret de Lacy; his maternal grandparents were Humphrey VI de Bohun , Governor of Winchester and Eleanor de Braose. He was an only child. He died at the age of 37 on July 27th, 1316 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England.General Notes
Sir Theobald de Verdon, Knight, b. 8 Sep 1278, d. Alton 27 July 1316, 2nd Lord Verdun, MP 1299-1314; m. (1) Wigmore 29 July 1302 Maud de Mortimer, d. 17 or 18 Sep 1312, daughter of Sir Edmund de Mortimer (147-4) and Margaret de Fiennes; m. (2) near Boston 4 Feb 1315/6 Elizabeth de Clare, b. Tewkesbury 16 Sep 1295, d. 4 Nov 1360, daughter of Sir Gilbert de Clare (28-4) and Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Edward I, King of England and Eleanor of Castile. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Justiciar of Ireland. [Ancestral Roots]
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BARONY OF VERDUN (II)
THEODALD (DE VERDUN), 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir, was born 8 September 1278. On the death of his brother John he was ordered by the King, 14 July 1297, to serve overseas in his place; and he was frequently summoned against the Scots till 1316; knighted by the King in Northumberland, 24 June 1298, and fought in the 2nd line at the battle of Falkirk, 22 July following. He was summoned v.p. to Parliament from 29 December 1299 to 16 October 1315, by writs directed (till his father's death) Theobaldo de Verdun junior, whereby he also is held to have become LORD VERDUN. He had seisin of his lands, 28 September 1309; and was Justiciar of Ireland, 30 April 1313-January 1314/5.
He married, 1stly, 29 July 1302, at Wigmore, co. Hereford, Maud, daughter of Edmund (DE MORTIMER), LORD MORTIMER, by Margaret, daughter of Sir William DE FENLES. She died 17 or 18 September 1312 at Alton, after childbirth, and was buried 9 October in Croxden Abbey. He married, 2ndly, 4 February 1315/6, near Bristol (against the King's will and without his licence), Elizabeth, widow of John DE BURGH (who died v.p. 18 June 1313; 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir apparent of Richard, 2nd EARL OF ULSTER [IRL], 3rd and youngest sister of the whole blood and coheir of Gilbert (DE CLARE), 7th EARL OF GLOUCESTER AND HERTFORD, daughter of Gilbert, 6th EARL OF GLOUCESTER AND HERTFORD, by his 2nd wife, Joan, "of Acre," daughter of EDWARD I. He died s.p.m. 27 July 1316 at Alton, aged 37, and was buried 19 September in Croxden Abbey. His widow, who had received the Honor of Clare in her purparty of her brother's estates, married, 3rdly, shortly before 3 May 1317, Roger (DAMORY), 1st LORD DAMORY, who died s.p.m. 13 or 14 March 1321/2. She, who was born 16 September 1295 at Tewkesbury, died 4 November 1360, aged 65. M.I. to her and her 3rd husband in St. Mary's, Ware. Will, desiring burial in the Convent of the Minoresses without Aldgate, London, dated at Clare, 25 September 1355, proved 3 December 1360.
On Theobald's death the two Baronies of Verdun, supposed to have been created by the writs of 1295 (or 1290 and 1299, fell into abeyance, according to modern doctrine, among his 3 daughters and co-heirs, by his 1st wife, Joan, Elizabeth and Margery, and his posthumous daughter and coheir, by his 2nd wife, Isabel. [Complete Peerage XII/2:250-1, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(i) Joan, born 9 or 11 August 1303 at Wootton in Stanton Lacy, Salop, and baptised in the church of Onibury, in that co., married, 1stly, 28 April 1317, in the King's Chapel in Windsor Park, John de Montagu (1st son and heir apparent of William, 2nd Lord Montagu), who died s.p. and v.p., being buried 14 August 1317 in Lincoln Cathedral. She married, 2ndly, 24 February 1317/8, Thomas (de Furnivalle), Lord Furnivalle, who died 5, 7 or 14 October 1339. She died 2 October 1334 at Alton, aged 31, and was buried 7 or 8 January 1334/5 in Croxden Abbey. See FURNIVALLE. Her representatives are (1956) Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton and Baroness Furnivall.
[ii) Elizabeth, born circa 1306, married, before 11 June 1320, Bartholomew (Burghersh), Lord Burghersh, who died 3 August 1355. She died 1 May 1360. Her senior representative is (1956) Viscount Falmouth, the others being the descendants of Anne, suo jure Countess of Warwick, wife of Richard (Neville), Earl of Salisbury and Warwick, the "Kingmaker."
(iii) Margery, born and baptised 10 August 1310 at Alton, married, 1stly, before 20 February 1326/7, William (le Blount), Lord Blount, who died s.p. shortly before 3 October 1337. She married, 2ndly, before 18 October 1339, Sir Mark Husee (son and heir apparent of Henry, 2nd Lord Husee), who died v.p. shortly before 10 February 1345/6. She married, 3rdly, before 10 September 1355, as his 1st wife, Sir John de Crophull, of Bonnington, Notts, who died 3 July 1383. She died before him in or before 1377. Her representatives would appear to be those of Thomas Husee, her descendant by her 2nd marriage, living 1478.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1130 in Weeton & Preese, Fylde, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1165 in West Dereham, Downham, Norfolk, England d.>Apr 1206 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1133 in Parham, Plomesgate, Suffolk, England
- b.1200 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland d.19 Jul 1230 in Poitou, France
- b.1153 in Hazlewood and Storiths, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.< 1227 in Hazlewood and Storiths, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1176 in Hazlewood and Storiths, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.< 1250 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1155 in Edlington, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1226 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.21 Oct 1274 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1145 in Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, England d.1192 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.1169 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.1231 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1147 in Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1204 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.10 FEB 1246/47 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1163 in Blewleveny Castle, Blaen Llyfni, Brecknockshire, Wales d.<06 Jun 1235
- b.~ 1183 in Blaen Llyfni, Brecknockshire, Wales
- b.1163 in England
- b.~ 1248 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.24 Aug 1309 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1125 in Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England d.25 Jul 1186 in Durrow, Ireland
- b.~ 1172 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England d.BEF 24 FEB 1240/41 in Trim Castle, Meath, Ireland (dspms)
- b.1142 in Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.~ 1200 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England d.BET 12 AUG AND 25 DEC 1230 in Trim Castle, Meath, Ireland (dvp)
- b.1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, Champagne, France
- b.1177 in Abergavenny, Gwent, Wales d.19 Nov 1200 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England
- b.1155 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1210 in Corfe, Windsor, England
- b.~ 1228 in Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England d.>10 Jun 1256 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.<02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1186 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.BET 11 AND 18 FEB 1224/25 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1154 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1212 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.1252
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.08 Sep 1278 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.27 Jul 1316 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.1143 in Gloucestershire, England d.1182
- b.1176 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.01 Jun 1220 in On a pilgrimage to Holy Land
- b.1144 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.1201 in Richmond, North Ride Yorkshire, England
- b.1208 in Hungerford, Essex, England d.24 Sep 1275
- b.< 1163 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1185 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.27 Aug 1236 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1160 in Kimbolton, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England d.<19 Apr 1197
- b.1225 in Herfordshire, Essex, England d.27 Aug 1267 in (dvp)
- b.~ 1150 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.1224
- b.~ 1178 in La Marche, Poitou, France d.01 May 1219 in Shenton, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1155 in Limoges, Haute Vienne, Limousin, France d.~ 1187 in Jaffa, Holy Lands
- b.1208 in La Marche, Poitou, France d.14 Aug 1241
- b.1155 in Leicestershire, England d.11 MAR 1182/83 in Hastings, Sussex, England
- b.1180 in Shenton, Leicestershire, England d.15 May 1246
- b.1163 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.~ 1212
- b.~ 1252 in Bisley, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, Champagne, France
- b.1178 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.<09 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
- b.1155 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1210 in Corfe, Windsor, England
- b.~ 1197 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales d.02 May 1230 in Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales after intrigues w/ his wife
- b.~ 1145 in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England d.1226 in Little Somborne, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1183 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.< 1215
- b.~ 1160 in Gilsland, Irthington, Cumberland, England d.24 MAR 1216/17 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
- b.1230 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales d.> 1252 in Llanthony Inn, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1106 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1165
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.1194 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
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Theobald 2nd Baron de and Maud de were married in a religious ceremony on July 29th, 1302 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. They had three daughters named Elizabeth de, Margery de and Joan de.
Family Notes
Marriage
Date: 9 JUL 1302
Place: Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
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Children
Elizabeth de Verdun
Elizabeth de was born about 1306 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. She died on May 1st, 1360.
Margery de Verdun
Margery de was born on August 10th, 1310 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. She died before 1377.
Joan de Verdun , Heiress of Alton
Joan de was born in Wootton, Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, England. She died on October 2nd, 1334.
Theobald 2nd Baron de and Elizabeth de were married in a religious ceremony in 2nd husband, 2nd wife. They had a daughter named Isabel de.
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