Nicholas de Verdon

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Nicholas de Verdon († 1231 ) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman.

Nicholas de Verdon was a younger son of Bertram de Verdon . After the death of his father in 1192 and the childless death of his older brother Thomas, Nicholas inherited the family's estates in Staffordshire and Ireland . Around 1195 he married his sister Lescelina to Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath . As a dowry for this marriage alliance with the powerful Lacy family, he offered about half of his possessions in Loath, Ireland . The marriage did not lead to a strengthening of the position of the Verdon family in Ireland, but to a conflict with the Lacys. In 1210, Nicholas belonged to King John Ohneland's army , with which he drove the Lacys out of Ireland. In 1215, however, Nicholas supported the aristocratic opposition, which forced the king to recognize the Magna Carta . As a result, the king had his possessions in England and Ireland occupied. After the death of King John and the end of the War of the Barons in 1217, Nicholas received Dundalk and other possessions back. In 1230 he granted Dundalk the right to hold a fair . After his death, his only daughter, Rohese, became his heir, whom he married in 1225 at the instigation of the government to the Anglo-Irish nobleman Theobald le Botiller .

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  1. ^ Brendan Smith: Colonization and Conquest in Medieval Ireland: The English in Louth, 1170-1330 , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 0-521-02662-8 , p. 49
  2. ↑ Dennis Murphy: The de Verdons of Louth . In: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland , Fifth Series, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Dec., 1895), p. 319
  3. ↑ Dennis Murphy: The de Verdons of Louth . In: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland , Fifth Series, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Dec., 1895), p. 320
personal data
SURNAME De Verdon, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Verdun, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Irish nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1231