Theobald le Botiller, also known as Theobald Butler, 2nd Baron Butler (January 1200 – 19 July 1230) was the son of Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler and Maud le Vavasour. He had livery of his lands on 18 July 1222.

Marriage and Children

Theobald married Joan du Marais (or Marisco) daughter of Geoffrey du Marais in 1222. Their children were:

After the death of his wife three years later in 1225, Henry III of England requested the marriage of Theobald to Roesia de Verdun, daughter of Nicholas de Verdun (Verdon) of Alton, Staffordshire and Clementia, daughter of Philip le Boteler,[1] and the widow of William Perceval de Somery. The agreement to marry occurred on 4 September 1225. The marriage is presumed to have followed shortly afterwards. Their children were

Career

Theobald was summoned cum equis et armis (Latin: "with horses and arms") to attend the King into Brittany, as "Theobaldus Pincerna" on 26 October 1229. He died on 19 July 1230 in Poitou, France, and was buried in the Abbey of Arklow, County Wicklow.

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Notes

  1. ^ See: Hagger, Mark, The Fortunes of a Norman Family: The de Verduns in England, Ireland and Wales, 1066-1316 (Four Courts Press, 2001). Additional source ref for inheritance of Stoke Farthing from her father Philip le Boteler; a property that passed into the ownership of the de Verduns: Curia Regis Rolls, 17, no. 1462
  2. ^ Inquisitions Post Mortem of Maud (Late) the wife of Richard de Amundevyl, alias Lady Maud de Verdoun, which includes Extents of Manors. Dated in the 12th year of the reign of Edward I. Ref: "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 40", in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 2, Edward I, ed. J E E S Sharp (London, 1906), pp. 323-332. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol2/pp323-332 [accessed 15 July 2020].

References

  1. George Edward Cokayne. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant, I-XIII (Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2BU: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2000), II:448.
  2. Ibid., II:447.
  3. Some corrections and additions to The Complete Peerage, II:448
  4. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 70A-29, 149-29
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