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234 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Warwickshire, and was ancestor of the Yekdoks of Draycot, co. Warwick, and of Ibstock, co. Leicester. IV. Simon. I. Alicia, m. to Ivo de Pantulf, of Wem, CO. Salop. Bekteam de Vebdon, the eldest son, was sheriff of Leicestershire from the 16th to the 30th of King Henry II's, reign inclusive. He subsequently attended Richaed I to the Holy Land, and was at the siege of Aeon, which place, upon its surrender, was com- mitted to his custody. This Bertram founded the abbey of Croxden, co. Stafford, anno 1176, and was otherwise a liberal benefactor to tlie Church. He ot. first, Maud, daughter of Eobert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, by whom he had no issue ; and secondly, Eoesia, but of what family is unknown. He d. at Joppa, in 1192, having had issue, I. William d. s.p., 1199. II. Thomas, of whom presently. III. Bertram. IV. Robert. V. Nicholas, successor to his brother. VI. Walter, constable of Bruges Castle, in Valois, and had a son, Ralf de Verdon. I. Leceline, m. to Hugh de Lacy. The second son and heir, Thomas de Veedon-, m. Eustachia, daughter of Gilbert Bassett, and by her (who m. secondly, Richard Camville) he had no issue. He' d. in Ireland, amio 1199, s.p., when he was s. by his brother, Nicholas de 'Veedon, who, in the 6th John, paid to the king lOOZ., as also a courser and palfrey, for livery of those lands in Ireland, whereof his father died possessed. But in 12 years afterwards he took part with the rebellious barons, whereupon all his lands were seized by special precepts from the crown to the sheriffs of Warwick, Lei- cester, Stafford, Lincoln, Bucks, and Oxford, and placed in the custody of William de Cantilupe, during the king's pleasure. On his submission, however, to King Heney III, those lands were restored to him in the first year of that monarch, and he appears after- wards to have enjoyed the favour of the king. He died in 1231, leaving (by Joan, his wife) an only daughter and heiress, RoEsiA DE Veedon, who m. Theobald Le Botillee, of the noble family of Butler, of Ireland, but being so great an heiress, re- tained her maiden name after marriage, which her husband adopted. At the time of her father's decease, she appears to have been a widow. This lady, who founded the abbey of Grace Dieu, for Cistertian monks, at Beldon, in Leicestershire, d. in 1248, leaving issue, John, her heir. Humphrey, rector of Alveton, d. at Paris, 1285. Nicholas, who had the manor of Clu- more, in Ireland, d. s.p. Theobald de Veedon, ancestor of the Veedons, Lords of Darlaston and Biddulph, CO. Stafford. Maud, m. to John Eitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel. Roesia was s. by her eldest son, John de Veedon (alias Le Botiller). This great feudal lord, being one of the barons marchers, had orders, in the 44th HenetIII, on the incursions of the Welsh, to keep his residence upon the borders. After which he was one of the barons who adhered to the king, in the conflict between the crown and the nobles ; and upon the triumph of the royal cause at Evesham, he was commissioned to raise forces in Worcestershire, for the purpose of attacking the only remaining hold of the barons, at Kenilworth. But these troubles being at length ended, John de Verdon was signed with the cross, and accompanied Prince Edward to the Holy Land. John de Verdon m. first, Margerie, daughter of Gilbert de Lacie, and co-heir to her grandfather, Walter de Lacie, Lord Palatine of Meath, in Ireland, by which alliance the castle of Weobley, co. Hereford, came into the Verdon family ; and secondly, Alianore, whose surname is unknown. At his death, being slain in Ireland, 1278, he left issue, I. Nicholas (Sir), of Ewyas Lacie, d. v.p. and s.p., 1271. II. John, Lord of Weobley, d. s.p., circa 1295. III. Theobald, of whom presently. IV. Thomas, of Staffordshire ; returned as a man-at-arms, l7th Edwabd II ; ancestor, it is believed, of Sir Thomas de Verdon, Knt., of Denston, co. Staf- ford, and of his brother. Sir John de Verdon, sheriff of Staffordshire, 34th Edwaed III, who d. s.p., leaving his sister, Joan, wife of John de Whit- more, Lord of Whitmore, his heir. This Joan left two daughters and co-heirs, viz., Joan, in. to Henry Clerk, of Ruyton, co. Salop; and Elizabeth, m. to James de Boghay, Lord of Whit- more. (See Burke's Landed Oentri/, MAiNWAEiNe of Whitmoee.) I. Agnes, d. 1305. The third son, Theobald de Veedon, lord of the moiety of Meath, in Ireland, had, in the 3rd Edwaed I, on doing homage, livery of his lands, paying 100?. for his relief. At this period he held the otfioe of Constable of Ireland. For some years subsequently this eminent person seems to have enjoyed the favour of the crown, and to have received several immunities ; but in the 19th of Edwaed's reign we find him arraigned for treason, and divers other misdemeanours, before the king and covmcil, at Bergavenny, ana condemned to imprisonment and con- fiscation ; the king, however, taking into con- sideration the good services of his ancestors, and his own submission, freed him for a fine of 500 marks; and he as soon after sum-