Maud le Vavasour

- Bef 1226

• Name	Maud le Vavasour  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 1226  [8, 9]
  Person ID	I9585	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	28 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert le Vavasour,   b. of Addingham, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 1228
  Mother	(Unknown) de Birkin
  Family ID	F1384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Theobald Walter   d. Bef 14 Feb 1205
  Marriage	Bef 1201  [5, 9]
  Children	1. Maud Walter + 2. Theobald le Boteler,   b. 1200, of Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland d. Abt 1230 (Age 30 years)
  Family ID	F4742	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Fulk III Fitzwarine,   b. of Whittington, Oswestry, Shropshire, England d. Bef 22 Nov 1235
  Marriage	Bef 1 Oct 1207  [2, 5, 10, 11]
  Children	+ 1. Hawise Fitzwarine,   b. of Narborough, Blaby, Leicestershire, England d. Aft Jan 1233 + 2. Eve Fitzwarine   d. Aft 1281 + 3. Fulk IV Fitzwarine,   b. Abt 1208, of Whittington, Oswestry, Shropshire, England d. 14 May 1264, River Ouse, Sussex, England (Age ~ 56 years)
  Family ID	F386	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  From Antiquities of Shropshire by the Rev. R. W. Eyton [Vol. VII, p. 73]: Maud le Vavasour was daughter of Robert, granddaughter of William, and sister of John le Vavasour. I think her mother was a daughter of Adam fitz Peter, Lord of Birkyn; for it appears that "Robert le Vavasour gave his share (it was a fourth) of the Vill of Bolton with Matilda le Count, his daughter, in frank marriage to Theobald Walter, and that the said Matilda afterwards gave it to Roger de Burkyn, her Uncle." (Sallay Register, Dugd. MSS. D. 2.) It is not difficult to say why Maud le Vavasour is called Matilda le Count in the above extract. The names Vavasour and Count are treated as equivalent. It is less easy to determine why the Fitz Warin Chronicle calls the same person Maude de Caus. I, however, suggest an explanation.-- The real Maud de Caus, for there was such a person living at the time of Maud le Vavasour's marriage, was probably her Grandmother. She was daughter and sole heir of that Robert de Chaus who figures in 1165 as a great Derbyshire Feudatory (Liber Niger, I. 225), and who was hereditary Warden of the Forests of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Maud de Caus was wife, first of Adam fitz Peter, Lord of Birkyn, and secondly of Ralph fitz Stephen. By her first husband she had issue John de Birkyn, who, on her death in 1224, succeeded to her great inheritance. I think that Roger de Birkyn above-mentioned, and * * * de Birkyn wife of Robert le Vavasour, were also children of Maude de Caus by her first husband. Maud le Vavasour, thus supposed to be her Granddaughter, had two children by her first husband, Theobald Walter. These were Theobald Walter (II.) and Matilda. Matilda was entrusted by King John to the guardianship of Gilbert fitz Reinfrid; but in 1220 King Henry III. apprises William de Lancaster (Gilbert fitz Reinfrid's son), that Theobald fitz Theobald was now to have charge of his Sister (Pat. 4 Hen. III, m. 5). This Writ, coupled with another of July 1221 (Claus. I. 463), shows that in 1220-1 Theobald Walter (II.) attained his majority.

  
  

• Sources

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