Rohese de Verdun

Rohese founded the Augustinian nunnery of Grace Dieu near Belton in Leicestershire and a Franciscan friary in Dundalk, at Seatown.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: before 22 February 1246/7.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (2:448). The Close Rolls show that Rohese was still alive in 1245.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Nicholas de Verdun of Alton, Staffordshire.

This relationship is given in the Complete Peerage (2:448), by Dace (p. 79), and by Hagger (p. 16). It is recorded in the Memoranda Rolls (16-17 Henry III p. 95., cited by Paul C. Reed in a 2001 post to soc.medieval.genealogy) and in fines from 23 October 1231 (15 Henry III, nos. 339 and 340).

Mother: 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).

Spouse: Theobald le Botiller. Married shortly after 4 September 1225.

This relationship is given in the Complete Peerage (2:448) and by Hagger (p. 72).

Children:

Matilda de Verdun (died 20 November 1283) married (1) John FitzAlan; married (2) Richard de Amundeville.

John de Verdun (died 1274), lord of Westmeath, married Margaret de Lacy.

Evidence

The 1242 inquisition post mortem of Thomas, earl of Warwick (CIPM 1:10) states that Roesia de Verdun held 8 knights fees in Warwick and Leicester.

Rohese is referred to several times in the Calendar of Close Rolls: (1231-1234: p. 153, p. 212, p. 289, p. 304, p. 431; 1235-1237, p. 192, p. 364; 1238-1241, p. 126 bis, p. 451; 1242-1247, p. 114, p. 237, p. 250, p. 299, p. 500, p. 503, p. 507).

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).

Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. A.D. 1231-1234. (London, 1905).

Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. A.D. 1234-1237. (London, 1908).

Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. A.D. 1237-1242. (London, 1911).

Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. A.D. 1242-1247. (London, 1916).

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).

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).

Henry III Fine Rolls Project. The National Archives and King’s College London (accessed 15 March 2015)