Maud de Somery
- Born: Dudley, Worcestershire, England
- Marriage: Sir Henry de Erdington Knight 141,1115
- Died: Bef 1302, Warwick, Warwickshire, England 141
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• Background Information. 141 Sir Henry de Erdington, of Erdington in Aston parish, co. Warwick, Shawbury, Salop, Corfe Mullen, Dorset, Barrow-on-Soar, co. Leicester, and Olney, Bucks, was the 2nd son of Sir Henry Erdington, of Erdington, Shawbury, Corfe Mullen, &c. (who d. shortly before 26 Mar 1282), by Maud, 4th daughter of Sir Roger de Somery, of Dudley, co. Worcester.
Maud was 4th daughter and coheir of the 1st wife of Roger de Somery, Nichole, who was sister and coheir of Hugh, and 3rd daughter of William d'Aubigny, Earls of Arundel. On 12 Apr 1274, the manors of Barrow-on-Soar, co. Leicester, and Chipping Campden, co. Gloucester, lately held by the said Roger by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of the said Nichole, and on the morrow of St. Andrew (1 Dec) 1283, the manor of Olney, Bucks, also of the inheritance of Nichole, were each equally divided among her four coheirs. Henry and Maud disposed of their purparty of Campden about 1280. [Close Roll, 2 Edw. I, m. 10; 10 Edw. I, m. 2; 12 Edw. I, m. 8 d: Ch Inq. p.m., Edw. I, file 40, no. 11]. Maud married, 2nd (and was pardon for marrying without license, 26 Apr 1286, for a fine of £100-not £500), William de Bifeld [Fine Roll, 14 Edw. I, m. 13[, who survived her, and died 18 May 1302 [Accounts of the Escheator South of Trent--Pipe Roll, 32 Edw. I].
~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, (Erdington), p. 85, footnote (e)
Maud married Sir Henry de Erdington Knight, son of Giles de Erdington and Unknown 141.,1115 (Sir Henry de Erdington Knight was born about 1252 in Erdington, Aston, Warwickshire, England, died Shortly before 26 Mar 1282 in Erdington, Aston, Warwickshire, England 141 and was buried in 1282 in St. Edmund's Chapel 1115.)
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