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Birth:          ABT 1226 Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland
Death:          21 Oct 1274 Alton Castle, Staffordshire, England
Burial:         12 Nov 1274 

Notes
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John de Verdun, b. c 1226, d. 21 Oct 1274, son of Theobald le Boteler and Rohese 
de Verdun. [Magna Charta Sureties]

Tenant-in-chief in Ireland.

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JOHN DE VERDUN, 2nd son of Theobald BUTLER, or LE BOTILLER (who died 19 
July 1230, in Poitou), being 1st son by his 2nd wife, Rohese [a], daughter and heir of 
Nicholas DE VERDUN, of Alton, Staffs, &c. (b), was born about 1226 (c). In May--June 
1244 he was to be given his wife's share of the lands of her grandfather, Walter de 
Lacy, Lord of Meath; and on 3 May 1247 he was to have seizin of his mother's lands. 
He was granted protection, May 1248, to go to Ireland, which he visited many times 
during his life; was given quittance of common summons in many counties, during 
1254-72, and was appointed one of the Justices in eyre for cos. Salop, Stafford, 
Warwick, Leicester and Lincoln, December 1259. He had further protections to go to 
Gascony, May 1253, and for service in Wales, August 1257, where he was Constable 
of the army which mustered at Chester; was ordered to defend the Marches against 
the Welsh in January 1259/60; and was summoned to London to aid the King, April 
1260, and to Windsor, for the same reason, October 1263. Later in that year he was 
among the Royalists who promised to observe the award of Louis of France touching 
the Provisions of Oxford. During the conflict between Simon de Montfort and the 
Crown John followed the King. In August 1265, after the Royal victory at Evesham, he 
was Keeper of Odiharn Castle, Hants; in October following he wrote, with others, to 
report to the King the surrender of London; and in February 1265/6 he was appointed 
to protect Worcestershire from the attacks of the rebels in Kenilworth Castle. In 
August 1270 he accompanied the Lord Edward on his Crusade; and witnessed a 
charter granted by him in Sicily, 15 January 1270/1. He established the Franciscan 
priory at Dundalk, co. Louth.

He married, 1stly, before 14 May 1244, Margery, 1st daughter of Gilbert DE LACY, of 
Ewyas Lacy, co. Hereford, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh (LE BIGOD), EARL OF 
NORFOLK, which Gilbert (who died v.p. between 12 August and 25 December 1230) 
was son and heir ap. of Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath (who died s.p.m.s. shortly 
before 24 February 1240/1), to whom Margery was coheir. He married, 2ndly, before 
1267, Eleanor (f). He is said to have died 21 October 1274. His widow was living, 10 
June 1278. [Complete Peerage XII/2:246-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

[a] Besides Alton her great inheritance in England and Ireland included Brandon 
Castle, co. Warwick, Belton, co. Leicester, and Farnham Royal, Bucks, which manor 
was held by the service of finding a glove for the King's hand on the day of his 
Coronation.

(b) For the descent of Nicholas, who was brother of Thomas, son of Bertram, son of 
Norman, son of Bertram de Verdun, the Domesday tenant of Farnham Royal, see 
VCH-Bucks. It is probable that this Anglo-Norman family took their name from Verdun, 
a fied in the parish of Vessey, Manche, cant. Pontorson.

(c) The King requested his mother's (Rohese de Verdun's) marriage to Theobald 
Butler, 4 Sep 1225. He was ward of Richard of Cornwall. His sister of the whole blood, 
Maud, m. 1stly, John FitzAlan (d. 1267), and 2ndly, Richard d'Amundeville. She d. 27 
Nov 1283.

(f) Presumably his son Humphrey, b. on the vigil of Pentecost 1267, was by the 2nd 
wife. Nothing is known of Eleanor's parentage but she may have been a Bohun. A 
seal, said to be hers, bears the Bohun and Verdun arms and the name of her son, 
Humphrey, may be significant.
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Parents
DE BOTILLER Theobald "Le Butzllen" (Jan 1200 - 19 Jul 1230)
DE VERDUN Rohese (ABT 1205 - 10 Feb 1247)

Siblings
DE VERDUN Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1225 - 27 Nov 1283)
DE VERDUN John le Botiller (ABT 1226 - 21 Oct 1274)

Marriage To DE LACY Margery (ABT 1226 - ABT 1256)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE LACY Gilbert (ABT 1199 - 1234)
BIGOD Isabel (ABT 1212 - 1239)

Children by DE LACY Margery ABT 1226 - ABT 1256
DE VERDUN Theobald (1248 - 24 Aug 1309)

Marriage To DE BOHUN Eleanor (ABT 1228 - AFT 10 Jun 1278)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BOHUN Humphrey (IV) (ABT 1204 - 24 Sep 1275)
DE LUSIGNAN Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1210 - 12 Aug 1241)

Children by DE BOHUN Eleanor ABT 1228 - AFT 10 Jun 1278
DE VERDUN Maud (ABT 1260 - )

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