Nicholas de Verdun

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1231, by 23 October.

The date is given by Hagger (p. 71).

Place of Death: unknown.

Place of Burial: Croxden abbey.

The place is given by Hagger (p. 71).

Relationships

Father: Bertram de Verdon (died 1192).

This relationship is given by Rhodes (ODNB), by Dace (p. 79), and by Hagger (p. 16).

Mother: Rohese.

This relationship is given by Rhodes (ODNB) and by Hagger (p. 16).

Spouse: Clemence, probably daughter of Philip le Botiller.

Evidence for this relationship is recorded in the Curia Regis Rolls (1243 [17:281-2 (no. 1462)], cited by Paul C. Reed in a 2001 post to soc.medieval.genealogy).

Children:

Rohese de Verdun (died 10 February 1247) married Theobald le Botiller in 1225.

References

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).

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

Dace, Richard. "Lesser Barons and Greater Knights: The Middling Group within the English Nobility c. 1086 - c. 1265" in The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History Volume 10 (2001) pp. 57 - 80.

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

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