Matilda (died 1283)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Matilda was probably born shortly after her parents' marriage in 1225.

Date of Death: 20 November 1283.

The date is given in Matilda’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM 2:536): “She died on the day of St. Edmund, King and Martyr, 12 Edw. I.”

Relationships

Father: Theobald le Botiller, 2nd baron Butler.

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB), by Hagger (p. 72), and by the Complete Peerage (1:239). Vicary Gibbs, in a footnote (CP 1:240 a) notes that Rohese’s children bore their mother’s surname of Verdun rather than Butler.

Mother: Rohese de Verdun.

This relationship is given by Hagger (p. 72) and is recorded in a fine from 1242 (26 Henry III, no. 546) and in the 1302 inquisition post mortem of Rohese’s grandson Richard FitzAlan (CIPM 4:90). Cawley gives Matilda’s mother as Clementia, wife of Nicholas de Verdon. As evidence, he cites a 1272 inquisition post mortem (CIPM Volume 2 Edward I, no. 6). Several threads in soc.medieval.genealogy cast doubt on the reliability of this evidence: the IPM concerns the property of someone who was not in Rohese’s and Matilda's family, so the jurors may not have had direct knowledge of the relationship.

Spouse: John (II) FitzAlan (died 1267).

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB), by Hagger (p. 72), by Cavell (p. 61), and by the Complete Peerage (1:239).

Spouse: Richard de Amundeville. Married by 1272.

This relationship is given by Hagger (p. 251) and by Cavell (p. 69). It is recorded in Matilda’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM 2:536) and in the inquisition post mortem of John FitzAlan (CIPM 1:812).

Children (by John):

John (14 September 1245 - 18 March 1271/2) married Isabel, daughter of Roger (IV) de Mortimer of Wigmore.

Evidence

A fine from 1242:

For Rose de Verdun. Rose de Verdun gives the king 5 m. for a writ that she be not distrained for the monies which the executors of the testament of John fitz Alan exact from her until it is declared whether the aforesaid monies were owed to the abovesaid John or to John, son of the abovesaid John, who took to wife Rose’s daughter. 1 Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire to take etc. Witness as above. [image]

From an abstract of the 1302 inquisition post mortem of Matilda’s grandson, Richard FitzAlan:

Warwick. Inq. made at Sutham, 25 June, 30 Edw. I.

Fleckenho. 23 messuages and 20 virgates of land in villenage (full extent given with names of tenants), which on Rose (Roesia) de Verdon gave to John son of Alan, earl of Arundell, with Maud her daughter in free marriage, tenure unspecified. He held nothing of the king in the county.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume I, Henry III (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1904).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume II, Edward I (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1906).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume IV, Edward I (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1913).

Cavell, Emma. "Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier: The Shropshire Evidence: The Rees Davies Prize Essay" in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth Series, Vol. 17 (2007), pp. 57-82.

Cawley, Charles. “Matilda de Verdun” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Hagger, Mark S. The Fortunes of a Norman Family: The de Verduns in England, Ireland and Wales, 1066-1316 (Four Courts Press, 2001).

Henry III Fine Rolls Project. The National Archives and King’s College London (accessed 14 March 2015)

Suppe, Frederick. “FitzAlan, John (II) (1223-1267)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Rhodes, W.E. “Verdon, Bertram de (d. 1192)”, rev. B. Smith, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).