Ancestral Trails 2016 » John de VERDUN (1226-1274)

Personal data John de VERDUN 

• Alternative names: Sir John "le Botiller" de Verdun Lord of Alton & WeobleyVerdun Lord of Alton & Weobleyerdun Lord of Alton & Weobley (also known as / alias), John de Verdon (also known as / alias)
• He was born in the year 1226 in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland.Source 1
• Title: SirSource 1
• Title: SirSource 1
• Title: Lord of Westmeath
• (Alternative Name) : John Boteler.
• (Title Of Nobility) : Lord of Westmeath.Source 1
• (LifeSketch) : John de Verdon (sic), (1226–1274) who inherited the western part of th.Source 1
• (Fact) : https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-le-Botiller-de-Verdun/60000000031.Source 1
• He died on October 21, 1274 in Alvaston Castle, Derbyshire, he was 48 years old.Source 1
• He is buried in Croxden Abbey, Stafford, England.Source 1
• A child of THEOBALD II BOTELER and ROHESE de VERDUN

Household of John de VERDUN

(1) He is married to Margery de LACY.

They got married on May 14, 1244 at Alton, Staffordshire, he was 18 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Nicholas de VERDUN  1245-1271
2. Theobald de VERDUN  1249-1309 
3. Emoine BOTELER  1255-1285 

(2) He is married to Eleanor de BOHUN.

They got married in the year 1262 at Alton, Staffordshire, he was 36 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Maud de VERDUN  1263-???? 

Notes about John de VERDUN

Issue: Nicholas de Verdun, John de Verdun, Emoine Boteler, Theobald I de Verdun 1st Lord Verdun, William de Verdun, Elias Verdun Lord of Oddestone, William, Humphrey .......

First son by his father's second marriage, and heir to his mother, Rohese de Verdun, he took her surname. He was granted protection in May of 1248 to go to Ireland, which he visited many time throughout his life. He was appointed one of the justices in eyre for Salop, Stafford, Warwick, Leicester, and Lincoln in Dec 1259. In May of 1253, he had protection to go to Gascony, and for service in Wales Aug 1257, where he was Constable of the army which mustered at Chester.

He was ordered to defend the Marches against the Welsh in Jan 1259/60, and was summoned to London to aid the King in April 1260, and in Windsor in Oct 1263. During the conflict between Simon de Montfort and the Crown, he adhered to the King. In August of 1265, he was Keeper of Oldham Castle, and in February of 1265/66, he was appointed to protect Worcestershire from the attacks of rebels in Kenilworth Castle. The following August he accompanied Lord Edward on his Crusade, and witnessed a charter granted by him in Sicily 15 Jan 1270/71.

Complete Peerage states, that by his second wife, Eleanor, he had a son, Humphrey, and although her parentage is not known, she may have been a Bohun; a seal said to be hers, bears the Bohun and Verdun arms, and the name of her son may be significant.

Recent investigative research by Mr. Douglas Richardson into the supposed two wives of Sir John de Grey, has, indeed lead him to this conclusion, and that Theobald, by his second wife, Eleanor de Bohun, also had a daughter, Maud, who was the sole wife of Sir John de Grey. For a more complete account of his rationale and findings, see notes under Sir John de Grey.
Source: www.geneajourney.com

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