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From: (J.C.B.Sharp)
Subject: Re: Maud de Vernon, wife of Richard de la Haye
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:15 +0100 (BST)
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In article <>, () wrote:

> Several threads on SGM in the past have dealt with the family of
> Richard de la Haye (or Haia), of Duddington, co. Northants. and
> Brattleby, co. Lincs. I noted earlier today the following partial
> extracts available from the Rotuli de Dominabus (1185), which
> indicate clearly the following (full extracts pending):
>
> 1. The wife of Richard was Maud, or Matilda, de Vernon, daughter
> of William de Vernon.
>
> 2. The husband of Juliana (or 'Gilla'), 2nd dau. of Richard de
> la Haye and Maud de Vernon, was one Richard de Humez. This
> may have been identical to the Richard de Humez (Homet, or
> Hummet) who d. a monk at Aunay in 1181 (his heir William was
> by his wife Agnes de Say).
>
> Certain questions have been, and remain, open, including which
> 'William de Vernon' was the father of Maud. One William 'de Vernon',
> a younger son of Richard de Reviers (d. 1107) and Adelise Peverel
> has been suggested before: despite the Devon and other SW England
> associations with their known progeny, the Peverel family held
> extensive lands in Nottinghamshire, which would match well with
> a younger Revier (aka Vernon) son, presumably seated in Notts.,
> having a daughter marrying a knight from Lincolnshire/Northant

According to Leportier (Familles Medievals Normandes, 235)Maud was the
daughter of William de Reviers count of Vernon and of Lucy daughter of
William de Tancarville and Maud d'Arques.

J.C.B.Sharp
London

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