Maud, daughter of Robert le Vavasour

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

(probable) Date of Death: in or before 1226.

The date is given by Eyton (7:76). Cavell gives about 1226.

Place of Death: unknown.

Place of Burial: the New Abbey at Alberbury, Shropshire.

The place is given by Cavell (p. 174). It is attested in the romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn.

Relationships

Father: Robert le Vavasour.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (2:448; 12/2:231).

Mother: unknown.

Eyton remarks (vol. 7, p. 73, fn) that he thinks a daughter of Adam fitz Peter de Birkin was Maud’s mother, because Adam’s brother Roger de Birkyn is described as Maud’s uncle in a land transaction. Further evidence is that Robert le Vavasour is listed before Adam’s sons, except his heir, in the witness list to a grant Adam made to the monks of Pontefract (EYC 3: p. 371). However, the Complete Peerage (12b:231) states that her identity is unknown.

Spouse: Theobald Walter. Married in or shortly before 1200.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (2:448; 12/2:231).

Spouse: Fulk FitzWarin. Married in 1207, before 1 October.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (2:448; 12/2:231).

Children (by Theobald):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Theobald le Botiller married (1) Joan, sister of John du Marais; married (2) Rohese de Verdun.

Maud married Gerard de Prendergast.

Children (by Fulk):

Fulk FitzWarin (killed in battle at Lewes, 14 May 1264) married Constance de Tosny.

Fulk FitzWarin of Alberbury.

Hawise (born about 1208) married William Pantulf.

Joan married Henry de Pembruge.

Eve (possibly) married (1) Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, prince of North Wales; married (2) William de Blancminster.

References

Cavell, Emma. "The Burial of Noblewomen in Thirteenth-Century Shropshire" in Thirteenth Century England XI (2005).

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).

Eyton, R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire. Volume VII (London, 1858).

Farrer, William, Early Yorkshire Charters vol. 3 (1914-16).

Flanagan, M.T. "Butler [Walter], Theobald" in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

“Gesta Fulconis Filii Warini” in Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores (Joseph Stevenson ed.) (London, 1879).

Suppe, Frederick. “Fitzwarine family” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography vol. 19 (2004)