Sir John de Verdon (1299 - 1376) was the 2nd son and eventual heir of Sir Thomas de Verdon, Lord of

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and

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, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Bewes otherwise Bogo de Knovill, 1st Baron Knovill. His main residence was initially at Bressingham, then later at

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. 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

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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,

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of Alton Castle. Sir John and Maud had two known children: * Edmund de Verdon, who died before his father and without issue. * Margaret de Verdon, who after the death of her father became ''de jure suo jure'' Baroness Verdon. She married 1stly Sir Hugh de Bradshagh of Old Hall, Westleigh, Lancashire and 2ndly Sir John Pilkington of Pilkington, also Lancashire. Cokayne in his Complete Peerage presented her as the daughter of Edmund de Verdun in error; he was actually her brother. Sir John married 3rdly Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Vise de Lou. Knight of

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. He died c.1380, the year Probate was granted on the estate of ''John de Verdon miles of Schelfangr''. 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''.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 ccessed 28 July 2020

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Verdon, John de, 1st Baron Verdon Norfolk Suffolk Northamptonshire Medieval English knights Barons in the Peerage of England 1299 births 1376 deaths