Piersebridge, near Darlington, Durham.
_Theobald le Botiller_ (Vol. viii., p. 366.).--Theobald le Botiller was an
infant at his father's death, 1206. He had livery in 1222; and in 9 Hen.
III., {573} 1225, married Rohesia or Rose de Verdun, not _Vernon_. She was
so great an heiress that she retained her own name, and her posterity also
bore it. She founded the Abbey of Grace Dieu, Leicestershire, in 1239; and
died 1247-8. Her husband died in 1230, leaving two sons: John de Verdun,
who inherited, and Nicholas, who died in Ireland without issue; and one
daughter Maud, who married John FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel.