Theobald de Verdon, 2nd Baron Verdon

Theobald de Verdon, 2nd Baron Verdon (also de Verdun ; for other census also 1st Baron Verdon ) (* 8. September 1278 , † 27. July 1316 in Alton Castle was) an English nobleman who briefly as Justiciar of Ireland served .

Life

Theobald de Verdon was the second and youngest son of his father of the same name, Theobald de Verdon, 1st Baron Verdon , and his wife Margary de Bohun, a daughter of Humphrey V. de Bohun . He probably grew up in Ireland, where his father had served the king since 1275. After the death of his older brother John in 1297, he was likely to become his father's heir. In the same year he was to fight in Gascony instead of his father during the Franco-English War . Since his father could not take part in the other campaigns of King Edward I due to illness , Verdon took part in the campaigns in the Scottish War of Independence from 1298 . On June 24, 1298 he was knighted by the king . He then fought in the Battle of Falkirk . Although his father himself was invited to parliaments until at least 1301, but was still in Ireland, Theobald de Verdon was appointed to parliament himself in December 1299 , which is why he is also considered to be Baron Verdon in his own right and thus 1st Baron . In 1301, instead of his father, he and other Marcher Lords paid homage to the heir to the throne Edward , after he had been raised to Prince of Wales, for the Welsh possessions of the family. After his father's death in 1309, he inherited his estates, which included Alton Castle in Staffordshire , Brandon Castle in Warwickshire , Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire , the reign of Ewyas Lacy in the Welsh Marches and other estates in Leicestershire . In addition he got the Irish possessions Dundalk and Meath back, which Edward I had confiscated from his father. 1313 King named him Edward II. To Justiciar of Ireland , but after the British defeat at Bannockburn he was called in 1314 by the King to northern England to defend the country against Scottish raids. After a Scottish army under Edward Bruce invaded Ireland, Verdon fought again in Ireland. However, the Scots were able to defeat the Anglo-Irish troops first, whereupon Verdon had to withdraw from Meath and returned to England.

Marriage and offspring

In his first marriage, Verdon had married on July 29, 1302 in Wigmore Matilda, a daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer from Wigmore and his wife Margaret de Fiennes . She brought further estates in Ireland with her as a dowry, but died in 1312. On February 3, 1316 he kidnapped Elizabeth de Clare , one of the co-heirs of the Clare family's rich estate , from Bristol Castle , presumably against her will . Elizabeth de Clare had been married to the Irish nobleman John de Burgh, who had died in 1313. Verdon claimed he was already engaged to her in Ireland and married her near Bristol on February 4th without the king's permission. His hopes for a great inheritance were not fulfilled, however, because he fell ill and died a few months after the wedding. He was buried in Croxden Abbey on September 19, 1316 .

Descendants and inheritance

From his marriage to Matilda Mortimer he had three daughters:

1. Joan de Verdon (1304–1334) ⚭ (1) John Montagu, ⚭ (2) Thomas Furnival
2. Elizabeth de Verdon (* 1307) ⚭ Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh
3. Margaret de Verdon ⚭ (1) Sir William Blount, ⚭ (2) Sir Mark Hose, ⚭ (3) Sir John Crophill

He and his second wife, Elizabeth de Clare, had a daughter, Isabel , who was posthumously born on March 21, 1317 . She married Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby . Since Verdon had died without male offspring, his possessions were divided among his four daughters and the title of Baron Verdon fell in Abeyance .

Web links

• Scott L. Waugh: Verdon, Theobald de, first Lord Verdon (1248? -1309). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
• Sir Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Lord Verdun on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 5, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 89
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. 323
3. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 270

predecessor	Office	successor
Theobald de Verdon	Baron Verdon 1309-1316	Title in Abeyance