John de Verdon, 1st Baron Verdon

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Baron Verdon

Sir John de Verdon
Born
John de Verdon

24 June 1299
Diedaft. 23 October 1376

Sir John de Verdon (1299 - 1376) was the 2nd son and eventual heir of Sir Thomas de Verdon, Lord of Brixworth in Northamptonshire and Bressingham in Norfolk, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Bewes otherwise Bogo de Knovill, 1st Baron Knovill. His main residence was initially at Bressingham, then later at Martlesham in Suffolk. In 1324, he was returned as a knight to attend the Great Council at Westminster. He is cited as being on the King's service in Aquitaine in June 1324. He was summoned to Parliament as a Baron by Writ 1331/1332, 1335/1336 and to the Great Councils in 1342 and 1347. In 1346, during the Crecy campaign, he served in the 1st Division under Prince of Wales 'the Black Prince', who gave him a destrier called Grisel de Coloign. However, illness necessitated his return to England sometime before 12 January 1346/7. In 1369 he attended Parliament as a Knight of Northamptonshire, although he had been created a Baron before then. He married firstly Agnes, and secondly Maud, the widow of Ralph de Crophull of Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, whose son Sir John de Crophull married Margery, daughter of Sir John de Verdon's kinsman, Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdun of Alton Castle. [1] [2]

Sir John and Maud had two known children:

Sir John married 3rdly Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Vise de Lou. Knight of Shelfhanger. [4] He died c.1380, the year Probate was granted on the estate of John de Verdon miles of Schelfangr. [5] His widow Isabel married Sir Edmund Noon, as confirmed in the Inquisition Post Mortem of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk (1382, 10 March, 5 Richard II), which refers to Edmund Noon and his wife, late the wife of John Verdon. [6]

References and sources

  1. ↑ George Edward Cokayne et al - The Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Volume XII (part 2), Edited by G. H. White, Pages 243-245 and pages 251-253 (The St. Catherine Press Limited, 1959)
  2. ↑ Mark S. Hagger - The Fortunes of a Norman Family - The de Verdun Family in England, Ireland & Wales 1066-1316 (Four Courts Press, 2001)
  3. ↑ Lieut-Colonel John Pilkington, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London - History of The Pilkington Family of Lancashire And its branches, from 1066 to 1600, pages 158-160. Third Edition, Re-written, and considerably extended; with revised. Liverpool: Privately printed for the Author by C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., 53, Victoria St. 1912
  4. ↑ Bryant, T. Hugh. The Churches of Norfolk : Hundred of Diss. Published Under the auspices of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. Norwich : Norwich Mercury Co. Ltd., 1915. Chapters on Bressingham and Shelfhanager
  5. ↑ Catalogue ref NCC, will register, Heydon, 173., Norfolk Record Office
  6. ↑ M. C. B. Dawes, A. C. Wood and D. H. Gifford, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 22', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 15, Richard II (London, 1970), pp. 239-256. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol15/pp239-256 [accessed 28 July 2020].

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