Norman de Verdon

  General Notes:

~Boyer's Medieval English Ancestors of Certain American, pg. 249, Beltram de Verdun, brother, and heir of Nicholas, and son of Norman de Verdun, who was the son of Beltram, the Domesday tenant of Farnham Royal or of Lascelyn de Clynton. ⁷²²

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁸³
Ivo Pantulf had at least five sons, Hugh, Hameline, Brice, William and Norman. Of these, William and Norman seem to have been his sons by Alice de Verdon, probably a daughter of Norman de Verdon. These two had, apparently from their mother, some property at Rudyard in Staffordshire.

~Antiquites of Shropshire, Vol. IX, p. 162-3

• Background Information. ⁷⁸²
Norman de Verdon, living 1140, married Lasceline, daughter of Geoffrey de Clinton, lord chamberland and treasurer to King Henry I.

There children were:

Bertram, his heir
Nicholas, abbot of Burton
Robert, married Joan daughter and coheir ofHenry de Bourton of Warwickshire, and was ancestor of the Verdons of Draycot, Warwick., and of Ibstock, Leicester.
Simon
Alicia, m. Ivo de Pantulf of Wem, Salop.

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of Colonial Gentry, pp. 233-234

• Background Information: Verdun & the Boteler Connection from Gen-Medieval Archives. ¹⁹³
From: Cristopher Nash <c@windsong.u-net.com>
Subject: Verdun (& the Boteler connection)
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:43:51 +0000

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Brief sum. of Hagger's reconstruction (again, partial):

1 Bertram I de Verdun fl. ca. 1086-1100; of Verdun nr. Vessey, Manche, cant. Pontorson; prob. witness of charter, Avranches, 1066

1.1 Bertram II de Verdun d. by 1129-30

1.1.1 Norman de Verdun succeeded 1129-30. Married Lescelina de Clinton, da. of Geoffrey I de Clinton

1.1.1.1 Bertram III de Verdun b. ca. 1137-8; d. 24 August 1192, Jaffa. Succeeded 1152/3. Married (1) Matilda, da. Earl Robert de Ferrers; (2) Rohesia/Rohais (--) by 1176

1.1.1.1.1 Thomas de Verdun b. ca. 1173 (majority, and succeeded, 1194); d. 1198. Married Eustachia Basset [NOTE: This would be da. of Gilbert Basset of Wycombe/Bicester and Egeline de Courtenay; she m. (2) Richard de Camville].

1.1.1.1.2 Nicholas de Verdun (bro) succeeded 1199; d. 1231, by 23 Oct. Married Clementia Butler, da. of Phillip Butler.

1.1.1.1.2.1 Roesia de Verdun succeeded 1231; d. 1246-7. Married Theobald II 'Butler' (s. of Theobald Walter) who d. 1230, Poitou.

1.1.1.1.2.1.1/2 John de Verdun b. 1225-30, d. by May 1274 m. (1) Margery/Margaret de Lacy, da. of Gilbert de Lacy of Ewyas Lacy, Heref (d. 1230) and Isabel le Bigod; (2) Alianor de Bohun.

1.1.1.1.2.1.1/2 Maud/Matilda de Verdun d. 1283-4. Marriages: May have m. (1) Walter de Lacy who d. betw. 1238 and 1242; m. (1 or 2) John FitzAlan by 1242; m. (2 or 3) Richard d'Amundeville

(No indication of the chronol. order of the preceding two siblings.)

1.1.1.1.3 Lesceline de Verdun da. of (1.1.1.1) Bertram III de Verdun. Married Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, who d. 1242-3, s. of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Ld of Meath (d. 1186) and Roysya/ Rose/ Rohese de Monemue/Monmouth

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Norman de Verdun, son of Domesday Tenant, Bertram de Verdun, was living 1120-1153. He married Lescelina de Clinton, daughter of Geoffrey I de Clinton, by Lescelina [Keats-Fohan, Domesday Desc. II: 403-494, 755]

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 70A:25-27

Norman married Lescelina de Clinton, daughter of Geoffrey de Clinton Chamberlain of Henry I and Lescelina. (Lescelina de Clinton was born about 1122 in Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England.)