Bertram III of Verdun

Bertram III of Verdun (~1135-1192), knight, lord of Royal Farnham, Alton, and Dundalk, Sheriff of Warwick and Leicester, Large dispenser of justice of England, Seneshal of Ireland, castellan of the king Richard Lion-hearted, governor of Saint-Jean-in Acre.

Bertram is born about 1132 in Farnham and is high in France by Richard of Hommet, which gave his name to the Château of Beaumont-the-Richard, Connétable of Normandy, which would have held its grounds during its minority (charter of foundation of Croxden Abbey).

In 1154, many lords of the Avranchin come to pay homage to the abbot of the mount Saint-Michel for new king d' Angleterre Henri II Plantagenêt, and among them Bertram de Verdun, wire of Norman (CH. MSM 16-17).

Raoul II of Ferns owed a knight in Henri II for his strongholds of Bouillon, Chavoy and Lolif, but this service was to be made in its receipt by Bertram de Verdun, wire of Norman (Desroches Abbot, T. II, p. 15).

In 1155, Bertram is pilot with his/her cousin Guillaume de Verdun, of Boucey, the donation of the mill of Tissey to the Abbaye of the mount Saint-Michel by another Guillaume de Verdun, lord of Notch and Bouillon.

In 1157, the abbot Richard de Curcy confirms the goods of the abbey of Savigny in the presence of Henri II of England, of Raoul II of Ferns, Guillaume of Hommet, wire of Richard, and Bertram de Verdun.

In 1162, Bertram signs the confirmations of the gifts of Raoul II of Ferns for Savigny and Guillaume of Midsummer's Day for the Lucerne-with Outremer.

About 1160, in a charter of Richard of Hommet where it signs like witness, it is called “ head off the house off Verdun ” (household head).

In 1163, it appears like witness with Rualan and Guyot de Verdun in the charter by which Adam, abbot of Evesham, pledged grounds of Wrottesley with Simon de Verdun, brother of Ralph, lord of Cocton.

About 1170, Bertram builds the castle of Alton, located between Cheadle and Uttoexeter in the Staffordshire.

In 1174, in the Charter S of Henri de Clinton and Ralph de Verdun, lord of Cocton, one finds five Verdun among the witnesses: Simon, brother of Ralph, Bertram, Rualan, Guillaume and Robert.

In 1176, Bertram gives to the abbey of Aunay in Normandy the ground of Chotes in England, then founds with his wife Rohèse ( Rohesia ), the Abbaye of Croxden where will come to be established into 1179 of the Norman monks of Aunay-on-Odon.

In 1180, it is present with Guillaume and Enguerrand of Hommet at the burial of Richard of Hommet, former constable of Normandy and father of those, in the abbey of Aunay, where it had been withdrawn as monk in 1178.

Bertram is Shérif towns of Warwick and Leicester of 1168 to 1183, large dispenser of justice of England as from 1176, and finally seneshal of Ireland in 1184. It is indeed quoted among the Norman barons who accompanied Henri II and his son Jean without Ground in Ireland in 1185, following the revolt of Rory O' Connor, king of Connaught. It receives grounds in the island, in particular the town of Dundalk and the stronghold of Clonmore in the Louth.

Named “castellan” of Richard Lion-hearted in 1189, it embarks with him for the Holy Land, is quoted with Messine, in January 1191, then with the catch of Acre the June 10th 1191, of which it is named governor. According to the Chronic of Croxden , he dies the August 24th 1192 with Jaffa, and is buried in Saint-Jean-D' Acre.

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