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Persönliche Daten Walter de Verdun Sheriff of Essex and Herts 

• Er wurde geboren rund 1170 in Bloxham, Oxford, England.
• Er ist verstorben rund 1220 in London, Middlesex, England.
• Ein Kind von Ralph de Verdun

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1. nn Daughter of Walter de Verdun, Sheriff of Essex and Herts  > 1170-???? 
2. Bertram de Verdun  
3. William de Verdun  

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"As it happens, there is a William de Verdun who had very close connections with Ranulf III 'de Blondeville', Earl of Chester (whose estate was administered during his minority by Bertram III de Verdun) and is mentioned above in 1195 as having been in Normandy with King Richard I, Ranulf and his brother Roger of Chester. This William de Verdun was either the uncle or younger brother of Bertram III de Verdun, whose other brothers were Herbert de Verdun of Ipstones in Staffordshire and Ralph de Verdun of Bloxham in Oxfordshire. I believe William de Verdun, companion of Ranulf, Earl of Chester and who also held lands in Normandy, probably of Ranulf as Vicomte d'Avranches, may be the same man or perhaps more likely the father of Sir William de Verdun, Knight who married Alice daughter of Robert fitzWalter and is ancestor of the de Verduns of Derbyshire, who appear with such frequency in the Cartulary of St. Werburgh's Abbey in Chester."

The first sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire appointed by the minority government was no less a figure than the regent himself, William Marshal I, earl of Pembroke, possibly the only man with the reputation and respect to keep order amongst the former rebels. After his death, 'he was succeeded by his under-sheriff Walter de Verdun', who was also a knight of the royal household. 10 A key change in government policy towards the localities came at Easter 1220, when the Essex knight Robert Mantell made fine to recover the shrievalty of Essex and Hertfordshire. 11 This appointment was partly an attempt to move away from the military governors and to increase income from the shires, but it also had a wider significance, as Mantell was the first former rebel to serve as sheriff since the civil war. 12 Of particular relevance given the situation in Essex, however, was the part played by de Burgh in Mantell’s appointment. 13 Unfortunately for all concerned, Mantell’s tenure in office was a catastrophe. When he appeared before the exchequer on 3 November 1220, he was unable to provide an account for his time in office with the result that less money was raised from Essex and Hertfordshire in 1220 than in the previous year. Mantell was also amerced for not returning a judicial writ, and his under-sheriff Geoffrey de Roding admitted that he had failed to execute royal orders. 14 Most seriously of all, Mantell and Roding were accused of conspiring with Henry fitz Aucher, an Essex landowner with connections to Salisbury and de Burgh, to falsify a judicial writ against a knight linked to Falkes de Bréauté. 15 This offence came to light before the justices of the bench on 10 November and within a week Mantell had been removed from office. The man chosen to restore order to the shrievalty was Stephen of Seagrave, who proved a great success. In contrast to all his predecessors since 1217, he was not once in arrears on the county farm. 16 Although primarily motivated by administrative necessity, there was a political subtext to Seagrave’s appointment, since his loyalties lay with the earl of Chester and des Roches, rather than with de Burgh. 17 This may have been a blow to de Burgh’s interests in Essex, but, given Seagrave’s exemplary performance in office and de Burgh’s share of the responsibility for the Mantell debacle, it was politically impossible for him to replace Seagrave with a more congenial figure.

General Notes:

Source <http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#RalphSaintAmanddied1245>: " _____ . m ___ de Verdun, daughter of ___. Her parentage and marriage are indicated by the order dated 2 Sep 1231 under which Henry III King of England granted repayment terms to [her son] "Amauricus de Sancto Amando" for the debts of "Waltero de verdun avunculo suo cuius heres ipse est". Her connection with the Verdon family is also inidicated by the charter dated [Oct] 1230 quoted below. One child: AMAURY [I] de Saint-Amand (-[May/Sep] 1241).

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Source <http://www.fluckers.com/family/daspit/stamand1.html#John De Saint-Amand>: "The family resurfaces in England with _____ DE SAINT-AMAND (1160 - 1225). He was probably the son or possibly the nephew of Odo. He lived during the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion (1189-1199). We are not sure what his first name was, but two of his sons were Almaric I and Sir William de Saint-Amand "de Sauxio". He was the son-in-law of Walter de Verdon who was Sheriff of Essex and Herts from 1218 to 1220. He was succeeded by his son and heir Almaric I." ______________________________

Source Par Nicholas Vincent: "... The Flemish (or possibly Norman) knight, Aimery de St Amand, had first appeared in England as a member of the bishop's wartime garrison at Taunton. After 1217 he was promoted to various estates including escheats in Sussex and Berkshire held from the crown via des Roches. Aimery's father-in-law, Walter de Verdun, was appointed deputy-sheriff of Essex under the Marshal, and served as constable of the Tower of London, either in his own right or as the representative of some magnate such as des Roches. In 1217 the Tower had been surrendered to des Roches, who appears to have supervised repairs there during the early years of the minority. In Oxfordshire Walter held half of the manor of Bloxham, close to the bishop's manor of Adderbury, where in 1218-19 he was paid £j by des Roches* bailiffs. Aimery de St Amand was himself regularly entertained on the episcopal estates, and in 1223 is found amongst the bishop's military following at Montgomery. In the same year he served alongside Peter de Maulay as a pledge for the count of Guines, and in 1221 stood as guarantor for Philip de Aubigne's custody of the Channel Islands. ..."

Aimery married N. DE VERDON [2635] [MRIN: 1502], daughter of Walter DE VERDON, Constable Of Bruges Castle, Sheriff Of Essex And H [2636] and Unknown. (N. DE VERDON [2635] was born about 1170 in , , England and died in , , England.)

Genealogy - KNIGHTs from Continental Europe to England/Ireland, to Philadelphia (PA), to France - Nov. 2017- http://knight-france.com/geneal/names/2634.htm

Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III: 9 to 18 Henry III ...- https://books.google.com/books?id=3ut-Qtv2yikC&pg=PA651&lpg=PA651&dq=Walter+De+Verdun,+Sheriff+of+Essex+and+Herts&source=bl&ots=qhYEFuqNKV&sig=Z87Zo846cqPCgGfmFR5bPAT_wi4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1-cHDx9PYAhVH8mMKHdyaB9cQ6AEwA3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Walter%20De%20Verdun%2C%20Sheriff%20of%20Essex%20and%20Herts&f=false

The Minority of Henry III, pages 282, 283, 284, 270, 470, 115, 415 and 319- https://books.google.com/books?id=93nNNQUyFwAC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=Walter+De+Verdun,+Sheriff+of+Essex+and+Herts&source=bl&ots=72g6I27ueU&sig=aCMWWOBCUHUFxrYseN7TgmVAlKc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1-cHDx9PYAhVH8mMKHdyaB9cQ6AEwBHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Walter%20De%20Verdun%2C%20Sheriff%20of%20Essex%20and%20Herts&f=false

The role of the sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in local and national politics- http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/month/fm-06-2006.html

'Footnotes' 1.- CFR 1223–24, nos. 73–76. These four entries are translated below. For the order to Seagrave to deliver the counties to Argentan, see PR 1216–25, p. 421.

2.- There were other methods that could be used. For example, Richard de Grey, sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire between Easter and Midsummer 1239, and Bertram de Criol, sheriff from Midsummer, answered jointly for the second half of the year (E 372/83 r.4 m.1), but the precise share of this debt owed by each seems to have been calculated from the account they submitted (E 389/172).

3.- Pipe Roll 1224, p. 99. It is also interesting to note that the sheriffs appointed by Hubert de Burgh held office on different terms from their predecessors, in that they also had to account for the profits of the county, that is for any issues received over and above the customary farm. In his account for the Exchequer year 1223–24, Argentan only answered for profits for the last three-quarters of the year and not for the first quarter of the year, during which Seagrave was sheriff.

4.- The customary value of these two manors given in the terris datis section of the the county farm was £120 and £40 respectively, but analysis of the Pipe Roll accounts of these manors while under direct management suggest that they were slightly more valuable than this. Between 1224 and 1230, Writtle produced an average net income of £134 per annum and Newport £43. In contrast, the net value of the county farm of Essex and Hertfordshire after deductions was £188.

5.- For a good introduction to and explanation of this essential conflict, see Carpenter, Minority, esp. pp. 256–62.

6.- De Burgh had been granted the keeping of these honours by John on his appointment to the justiciarship in May 1215 ( Rotuli litterarum patentium , pp. 145, 153).

7.- The earls of Essex and Oxford, along with the barons Robert fitz Walter, Richard de Montfichet and Richard de Redvers all supported de Burgh. Only Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, supported des Roches.

8.- Nearly all of the magnates and around half of the gentry families of Essex joined the rebellion. These figures are taken from my doctoral thesis and I would be happy to provide more details on request.

9.- For de Bréauté and Hertford, see Pipe Roll 1218, pp. 66–68; For the appointment of Sainte-Mère-Eglise, see PR 1216–25, p. 167.

10.- The precise status of the regent is unclear. According to the patent rolls, John de Cornard was appointed as sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in November 1217 and he was succeeded by Walter de Verdun in April 1218 (PR 1216–25, pp. 121, 146). This is contradicted by the Pipe Rolls, which show that Cornard accounted as under-sheriff to the regent between Christmas 1217 and Easter 1218, and that Verdun was under-sheriff from Easter 1218 until Easter 1219 before answering as sheriff in his own right between Easter and Michaelmas 1219 (Pipe Roll 1218, pp. 66–67; Pipe Roll 1219, p. 105). At this time, it was not uncommon for the under-sheriff to be described as the sheriff.

11.- CFR 1219–20, no. 140; PR 1216–25, p. 231.

12.- For more information on the Mantell Family, see J. H. Round, ‘The Mantels of Little Maldon’, Essex Archaeological Transactions, New Series, 20 (1930–33), pp. 254–57. In theory, the Mantells held the shrievalty in hereditary fee farm, according to a grant of Henry II and confirmed by John (Rotuli Chartarum, p. 125), although in practice the terms on which they held varied.

13.- Mantell was a tenant of de Burgh’s honour of Hatfield Peverel, and de Burgh also reserved to himself the right to approve Mantell’s choice of under-sheriff (C 60/12, m. 6). The man chosen, Geoffrey de Rodings, had previously served as under-sheriff to Matthew Mantell in 1214 (Pipe Roll 1214, p. 1).

14.- Pipe Roll 1224, p. 101; Curia Regis Rolls, IX, p. 192.

15.- CRR, IX, pp. 340–41. Further investigation uncovers a convoluted story. The abbot of Wardon had sued a writ of novel disseisin against Walter de Godarville, one of de Bréauté’s knights, and others concerning land in Hatfield (Herts.). Hatfield lay within the liberty of the bishop of Ely, so Mantell passed the writ on to Rodings, his under-sheriff, to be delivered to the bailiff of the liberty of Ely. Rodings claimed that he was illiterate, even though he is described as a clerk in a contemporary charter (TNA DL 25/1535), so he passed the writ on to fitz Aucher to be transcribed. At some point during this process an erasure was made on the writ. This was a serious offence. When alterations had to be made to royal documents, the practice was to rule through any mistakes and add interlinear or marginal corrections. This way any changes made to documents could be traced. This might have been an example of incompetence, but certain aspects suggest a more underhand explanation. First, the writ commissioning the justices to hear the assize was tested by Hubert de Burgh himself on behalf of fitz Aucher (PR 1216–25, p. 263), who was also acting on behalf of the abbot as the latter’s attorney (RLC, i, p. 438). This is unusual enough to imply some degree of collusion; especially since fitz Aucher’s son Thomas appears in 1223 holding land of the abbot of Wardon in Hatfield (CRR, X, p. 38). Furthermore, while Mantell’s fledgling administrative career ended abruptly in 1220, both fitz Aucher and Rodings continued to receive commissions and hold local office.

16.- During his time in office, the Exchequer carried out a thorough revision of all the accounts for Essex and Hertfordshire held since 1217 (Pipe Roll 1221, pp. xxviii–xxix).

17.- For Seagrave’s connections to Chester, see W. Farrer, Honors and Knights’ Fees, II, pp. 71–72.

18.- For the best account of these events, see Carpenter, Minority, pp. 314–29.

19.- The very fact that no written order for Seagrave to surrender the Tower and deliver it to de Burgh was ever enrolled reveals the extremely controversial nature of the decision. There is likewise no enrolled record of the removal of the sheriffs of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, which is only known from a later complaint made by Falkes de Bréauté and recorded in his querimonia (from the Barnwell chronicle printed in Memoriale fratris Walteri de Coventria, II, p. 261).

20.- Annales Monastici, III, pp. 83–84. De Burgh also appointed new sheriffs to Berkhamsted and Colchester castles, to improve their defences against enemy raids (PR 1216–25, p. 416). This would tend to support the identification of Waltham as Waltham Holy Cross.

21.- E 372/67, r. 3 m. 1.

22.- C 60/20, m. 6 Robert de Argentan.

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