Thomas de Verdun

Family/Spouse: Eustachia Bassett. Eustachia (daughter of Gilbert Bassett and Egelina de Courtenay) was born about 1176 in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England; died in 1215. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
They had no issue.

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• Legal: 1168; In 1168 William Basset of Sapcote was Sheriff of Warwickshire and was accused of misappropriation of treasury monies. Bertram, who was at that time with the king in Caen, was sent, together with Richard de Humet, to investigate with the result that Bertram was in 1169 given the dual shrievalty of Warwickshire and Leicestershire in Basset's place. Four years later he rebuilt in stone his house at Alton, which had, up to that time, been little more than a wooden hall.
• Offices Held: 1169; He was the Sheriff of Leicestershire from the 16th (1169) to the 30th (1183) of Henry II.
• Offices Held: 1171; Richard FitzGilbert (Strongbow) Earl of Pembroke and Clare landed in Ireland. Dublin was taken and held against both Norse and Irish attacks. Henry II decided to go to Ireland to clarify his own position as Strongbow's liege Lord. Bertram de Verdun was appointed Seneschal for the undertaking, that is to say he was responsible for provisions and stores. The expedition left for Waterford on October 16, 1171. Further to this campaign, Bertram was granted by king of land in Louth, north of Ireland, where he held the towns of Drogheda-in-Uriel and Dundalk and several castles.
• Offices Held: 1172; From 1172 Bertram was one of the king's "Justices in Eyre" (circuit judges) along with William Basset. Later, in 1175, he became one of the regular members of the Curia Regis.
• Religion: 1179, Croxton Abbey, Leicestershire, England; In 1179 Bertram founded the Cistercian abbey of Croxden in Staffordshire, where settled monks from abbey of Aunay in Normandy.
• Military: say 1180; He joined Richard I as a crusader and was at the siege of Acre, which upon its surrender, was committed to his custody.
• Last Full Review: 29 Jun 2020

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Bertram married Rohese on yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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History:
Rohese's parentage is unknown, but some have postulated that she was Rohese de Salford. The hypothesis is likely have arisen from a suggestion that a Rose de Verdun who claimed seven virgates of land in Willen (Buckinghamshire) against Hugh de Salford in 1203 was possibly the daughter of Roger de Salford, who had died before then.

Norman married Lesceline de Clinton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]