Maud de Valognes

Family/Spouse: Hervey Walter. Hervey (son of Hervey Walter) was born in of Weeton, Amounderness, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 4 Aug 1205 and 14 Feb 1206
• Alternate death: Between 4 Aug 1205 and 29 Sep 1205
• Alternate death: Bef 12 Feb 1206

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Also called Theobald fitz Walter; Theobald Butler. Chief Butler of England; first Chief Butler of Ireland. Sheriff of Lancashire 1194; justice itinerant 1197.

He was raised in the remarkable household of his uncle, the justiciar of England Ranulph de Glanville, along with his brother Hubert Walter (who would become justiciar of England, chancellor of England, and Archbishop of Canterbury); Geoffrey fitz Peter (who would succeed Hubert Walter as justiciar); and, for a few years in the early 1180s, the future king John.

He was not the founder of Cockersand Abbey in Lancashire as reported in CP II; this is corrected in CP XIV. He did, however, found the Abbey of Nenagh. co. Tipperary, 1200; the Abbey of Wotheny, co. Limerick, 1205; and the monastery of Arklow, co. Wicklow.

"Theobald Walter or Fitz Walter, s. and h. of Hervey Walter, of West Dereham, Norfolk (owner of large estates in Norfolk and Suffolk), by Maud, da. and coh. of Theobald de Valoignes, accompanied John, Count of Mortain, Lord of Ireland (afterward King John), in 1185 into Ireland, who conferred on him vast estates in that Kingdom, including (before 1189) the fief of Arldow, &c., and (in or before May 1 192) the important office of Butler [I.], a dignity which, of itself, probably comprised (even if it did not comprise more than) Baronial rank and position for himself and his successors. He is said subsequently to have obtained the valuable monopoly of the prisage of wines [I.], and is styled Theobald Butler certainly as early as 1199. Returning to England, he obtained from Richard I, in 1194, a grant of the Wapentake of Amounderness with the Lordship of Preston, Lancs. He was Sheriff of Lancashire, personally or by deputy 1194-99. In 1197 he was one of the Justices Itinerant. He founded the Abbey of Nenagh, co. Tipperary 1200; the Abbey of Wotheny, co. Limerick (1205), and the monastery of Arklow, co. Wicklow. He m., in or shortly before 1200, Maud, da. of Robert le Vavasour with whom he acquired the manors of Edlington, co. York, Narborough, co. Leicester, &c. He d. between 4 Aug. 1205 and 14 Feb. 1205/6, and was bur. at Wotheny Abbey afsd. His widow m., in 1207, before 1 Oct., Fulk Fitzwarin." [Complete Peerage 2:447-48, as corrected by Volume 14.]

Theobald married Maud le Vavasour before 1201. Maud (daughter of Robert le Vavasour and (Unknown) de Birkin) died before 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was raised in the household of his uncle, the justiciar of England Ranulph de Glanville, along with his brother Theobald Walter (who would become chief butler of England and Ireland and the founder of enduring lordships in Munster and Leinster); Geoffrey fitz Peter (who would succeed Hubert as justiciar, serving in that office while Hubert was chancellor); and, for a few years in the early 1180s, the future king John.

One of the truly remarkable figures of his day, he was an essential part of England's ecclesiastical and secular power structures from the later years of Henry II all the way to king John. Parallel to his ecclesiastical career, first as bishop of Salisbury and then as Archbishop of Canterbury, he was justiciar of England under Richard and then chancellor of England under John. In both offices he was a reformer of uncommon energy. Among his many innovations was the triplicate chirograph record now known as the "feet of fines," so crucial to modern historical and genealogical research.

As a sidebar, he can also lay claim to having been England's most quietly effective Crusader. He arrived to the Holy Land in September 1190 in an expedition that included his uncle Ranulph, the then-archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury, and the earl of Derby. Conditions were dire, and by November all three of those worthies were dead. Hubert then set about reorganizing matters. He was an executor of Baldwin's will, so he was able to use some of the dead archbishop's possessions to pay the common soldiers the wages owed them. He personally led sorties against Saladin. By the time Richard arrived in June 1191, the crusader encampment was in far better shape. Hubert continued to be essential, not just as a competent commander, but also as go-between in the endless disputes between temperamental crusader leaders. When Richard took sick in 1192, it was Hubert who arranged a truce with Saladin; shortly afterward, Hubert negotiated the longer-term treaty with Saladin that gave Western Christians access to Jerusalem and to restored Latin services in Bethlehem and Nazareth. As everybody knows, Richard was taken captive in the Holy Roman Empire on his way back to England and Normandy. Inevitably, it was Hubert Walter who was among the first of Richard's subjects to reach him in captivity, and it was Hubert Walter who negotiated the terms for his release.

Notes:

Also called Maud Butler.

Family/Spouse: Gerald de Prendergast. Gerald (son of Philip de Prendergast and Maud de Quincy) was born in of Enniscorthy in Templeshanbo, Wexford, Ireland; died in Aug 1251. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1200, of Boxted, Suffolk, England
• Alternate death: 19 Jul 1230, Poitou, Aquitaine, France

Notes:

Also called Theobald Walter. Second Chief Butler of Ireland.

"Theobald Butler, or le Botiller, only s. and h., aged 6 years in 1206. He had livery of his estates 2 July 1221 and 18 July 1222. He was sum. cum equis et armis to attend the King into Brittany, 26 Oct. 1229, as Theobaldus Pincerna. Was Lord Justice [I.], 1247. He m., 1stly, Joan, sister and in her issue coh. of John du Marais, da. of Geoffrey Du M., Justiciar [I.]. He m., 2ndly (shortly after 4 Sep. 1225, when the King requests such marriage), Rohese, only da. and h. of Nicholas de Verdon, of Alton, co. Stafford, which Rohese was heiress of Croxden, &c., and Foundress of Grace Dieu Monastery, co. Leicester. He d. 19 July 1230, in Poitou, and was bur. in the Abbey of Arklow. His widow d. before 22 Feb. 1246/7." [Complete Peerage II:448]

Theobald married Rohese de Verdun after 4 Sep 1225. Rohese (daughter of Nicholas de Verdun and Clemencia) died before Feb 1247. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Maud de Boteler.

Maud married John Fitz Alan before 1240. John (son of John Fitz Alan and Isabel d'Aubigny) was born about 1223 in of Clun, Shropshire, England; died before 10 Nov 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 21 Oct 1274

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Also called Sir John le Botiller; Sir John le Boteler; John le Botiller de Verdun.

Ally of the King against Simon de Montfort. Went to Sicily, 1271, on crusade with Lord Edward (later Edward I).

The Wallop Family claims that has was "slain in Ireland", a circumstance and place not mentioned in RA. CP says "He is said to have d. 21 Oct 1274" and footnotes this with: "Though the writ appears to have been issued, 17 Oct. [...] According to the Annals of Clonmacnoise, he and 13 knights were poisoned together in England."

John married Margaret de Lacy before 20 Apr 1242. Margaret (daughter of Gilbert de Lacy and Isabel le Bigod) died in 1256. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Eleanor de Bohun before 1267. Eleanor (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Maud of Avenbury) died after 10 Jun 1278. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]