Sir Thebaud de Verdun Knight, 2nd Lord of Verdun

  General Notes:

~Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry, pp. 152, 188 ⁵⁹⁹

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 70:31-32, Son of Theobald de Verdun and his wife Eleanor, Sir Theobald de Verdun, knight, was born 8 Sep 1278. He was lord of Woberley, 2nd Lord Verdun, Justiciar of Ireland, Knight by 1298, and a summoned to Parliament between 1299-1314. He married Maud de Mortimer, daughter of Sir Edmund de Mortimer and Margaret de Fenlis. After her death, he married a second time to Elizabeth De clare. Maud de Mortimer was the mother of Joan de Verdun who married Thomas Furnival, and the mother of Margaret de Verdun, who married Sir William Blount. Elizabeth de Clare was the mother of Isabella de Verdun wo married Henry Ferrers of Groby.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Theobald de Verdun was the 2^nd, yet oldest surviving son and heir of his father of the same name, the Lord Verdun. The younger Theobald was born 8 Sep 1278. When his brother John died, he was ordered by the King, 14 Jul 1297, to serve overseas in his place. He was frequently summoned for battle against the Scots until 1316. He was knighted by the King in Northumberland, 24 Jun 1298, and fought in the seconnd line at the battle of Falkirk, on 22 Jul of the same year. He was summoned v.p. to Parliament from 29 Dec 1299 to 16 Oct 1315, by writs directed to Theobaldo de Verdun junior, until his father's death when he became Lord Verdun. He had seisin of his lands, 28 Sep 1309; and was Justiciar of Ireland, 30 Apr 1313-Jan 1314/5.

He married, for his first wife, 29 July 1302, at Wigmore, in Hereford, Maud, daughter of Edmund de Mortimer, Lord Mortimer, and Margaret, daughter of Sir William de Fenles. Maud died 17 or 18 Sep 1312 at Alton, after childbirth, and was buried 9 October in Croxden Abbey. Theobald married a second time, 4 February 1315/6, near Bristol (against the King's will and without his licence), Elizabeth, widow of John de Burgh (who died v.p. 18 June 1313; 2^nd but 1^st surviving son and heir apparent of Richard, second Earl of Ulster). He married for a 3^rd time to the youngest sister of the whole blood and coheir of Gilbert de Clare, 7^th Earl of Gloucester and Heretford, and the daughter of Gilbert, 6^th Earl of Gloucester and Heretford, by his 2^nd wife, Joan, "of Acre," daughter of Edward I. He died s.p.m., 27 Jul 1316, at Alton, aged 37, and was buried 19 Sep in Croxden Abbey.

His widow, who had received the Honor of Clare in her purparty of her brother's estates, married, 3rdly, shortly before 3 May 1317, Roger Damory, 1^st Lord Damory, , who died s.p.m. 13 or 14 Mar 1321/2. She, who was born 16 Sep 1295 at Tewkesbury, died 4 Nov 1360, aged 65. M.I. to her and her 3^rd husband in St. Mary's, Ware. In her will she wished to have her burial in the Convent of the Minoresses without Aldgate, London, dated at Clare, 25 Sep 1355, proved 3 Dec 1360.

On Theobald's death, the two Baronies of Verdun, fell into abeyance, according to modern doctrine, were to be divided among his 3 daughters and co-heirs, by his 1st wife, Joan, Elizabeth and Margery, and his posthumous daughter and coheir, by his 2nd wife, Isabel.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Verdun), Vol. XII/B pp. 250-251

Thebaud married Maud de Mortimer, daughter of Sir Edmund de Mortimer Baron, Mortimer, 7th Baron Mortimer of Wigmore and Margaret de Fiennes. ¹⁴¹