Theobold de Verdun

1278 - 1316  (37 years)

• Name	Theobold de Verdun  [1]
  Birth	8 Sep 1278	Cheadle, Staffordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Jul 1316	Alton, Staffordshire, England   [1]
  Burial	Croxden, Staffordshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I14433	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Thebaud de Verdun,   b. 1248, England d. 24 Aug 1309, Alton, Staffordshire, England (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F14465	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Matilda 'Maud' de Mortimer,   b. 1285, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d. 18 Sep 1312, Alton, Staffordshire, England (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F5236	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth de Clare,   b. 16 Sep 1295, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 4 Nov 1360, Ware, Hertfordshire, England (Age 65 years)
  Children	1. Elizabeth de Verdun,   b. 1 May 1306, Alton, Staffordshire, England d. 1377, Sussex, England (Age 70 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Isabel de Verdun,   b. 21 Mar 1315, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England d. 25 Jul 1349, Groby, Leicestershire, England (Age 34 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5237	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 8 Sep 1278 - Cheadle, Staffordshire, England Death - 27 Jul 1316 - Alton, Staffordshire, England Burial - - Croxden, Staffordshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Arms-VERDUN Verdun/de Verdun Coat of Arms

  
  

• Sources

  [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Theobald de Verdun 1278-1316. Sir Theobald de Verdun, Knight, 2nd Lord Verdun of Alton, Staffordshire, of Weobley Herefordshire, of Franham Verdon, Buckinghamshire and of Wilsford, Wiltshire. Hereditary Constable of Ireland, Justiciar of Ireland, hereditary patron of Croxden Abbey. Second but eldest surviving son of Thebaud de Verdun and Margery de Bohun. Grandson of John de Verdun and Margery de Lacy, daughter of Gilbert. Grandson of Humphrey de Bohun and Eleanor de Brewes. Husband of Maud de Mortimer, married 29 July 1302 at Wigmore, Herefordshire. Maud was the daughter of Sir Edmund de Mortimer, 1st Lord Mortimer, a descendant of King John and Margaret de Fiennes, daughter of William and descendant of King Henry II. Her maritagium included the Castle and Manor of Dunamase in Ireland. They had four daughters: * Joan, wife of Sir Thomas de Furnival * Elizabeth, wife of Sir Bartholomew de Burghersh * Margery, wife of Sir John Crophill * Katherine Theobald was knighted by the King in Northumberland on 24 June 1298. He fought in the second line at Falkirk July of 1298. Summoned to Parliament 1299 to 1315 as Theobaldo de Verdun junior, where as he became Lord Verdun. Maud died at Alton, Staffordshire on the 17th or 18th of Sept 1312 after childbirth and buried at Croxden Abbey. Theobald married again, to Elizabeth de Clare, the daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester and Joan of England the daughter of King Edward I. She was the widow of John de Burgh, who died in a skirmish on the 18th of June 1313. They had one daughter, Isabel, who would marry Henry de Ferrers. Theobald would die estate at Alton, Staffordshire. His widow would remarry Sir Roger D'Amory by 1317. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68807235/theobald-de-verdun