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Birth:          ABT 1050 Verdun near Vessey, Normandy
Death:          AFT 1100 Farnham Royal, Eton, Buckinghamshire, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_de_Verdun
Bertram I de Verdun is said to be one of the knights of William the Conqueror at the 
Battle of Hastings (1066). In Domesday Book (1086), Bertram de Verdun holds the 
land and the manor of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire, held before by princess 
Goda of England. Some historians say Bertram was probably a son (or nephew) of 
Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine.[2] This view has been given added support by 
the work of historian Beryl Platts, which provides compelling arguments about the 
Flemish origins of previously supposed Norman families including that of de Verdun.[3]

In Domesday Book, Bertram is said to have been in Normandy for William II's business, 
"duc est transmare in servicio regis", and appears in two charts of William de Saint-
Calais, bishop of Durham, and King's chief advisor. Bertram's wife's name is unknown, 
but his son and heir was Bertram II de Verdun (? – c. 1129/30). His son continued to 
amass land in England, and by 1128 also had been granted land in Staffordshire and 
Leicestershire. Hagger suggests that he also had assumed an administrative position 
for Henry I, and was possibly sheriff of Yorkshire in 1100.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I34535
Note: In 1166 Bertram de Verdon [grandson of this Bertram] held two knights' fees in 
chief. In a return of the knights of Le Mont St-Michel in 1172 there is the entry 
"Radulfus de Fulgeriis debet unum militem de medietate de Buillun et de Chavei et de 
quadam parte Olivi. Istud autem servicium debet facere pro eo Bertramnus de Verdum, 
filius Normanni." The places are Bouillon (Manche, arr. Avranches, cant. Granville) 
and Chavoy (arr. and cant. Avranches). The entry makes it highly probable that 
Bertram derived his name from Verdun as above. (Verdun: a fief in par. Vessey, 
Manche, cant. Pontorson) [The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]

Parents
DE VERDUN Bertram (ABT 1015 - AFT 1066)
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Siblings
DE VERDUN Bertram I (ABT 1050 - AFT 1100)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
DE VERDUN Bertram II (ABT 1075 - BEF 1130)

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