Maud de Vernon, wife of Richard de la Haye

Wednesday, 17 May, 2006

Hello All,

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/Northants.

jcbs...

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

Cheers,

John *

from Rotuli de Dominabus
q=William+Malet+Alice+Picot&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1

p. 12

' Matillis de La Haia, que fuit filia Willelmi de Vernun, et uxor Ricardi
de La Haia, est de donatione Domini Regis, et est .lvij. annorum; et habet
.iij. filias, quarum .j. habet ... '

'... Nicholaa de Haya ' was similarly in the king's gift and holding Swaton
as worth Ł20 a year (Testa, p. 348). She had married Gerard de Camville (see
text) and was famous as the stalwart supporter of John and his infant son, for
whom she held Lincoln castle (cf. Rot. Scacc. Norm. I, cvi).
For the second daughter, Gille, wife of Richard du Hommet (Manche) see
Rot. Hen II (1164). It was, apparently, the Domesday holding of Helpo
'balistarius'.... '

NOTES:

' 3. This Swaton manor was part of the Domesday fief of Colswegen
('Colsuain'), which was obtained, under Henry I, by Richard de la Haie, as the Lindsey
Survey proves. Maud was widow of that Richard de la Haie who held a
Lincolnshire fief with a service of twenty knights in 1166 (Red Book, p. 390). '

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DESCENT from William de Vernon

1 William de Vernon