Matilda (FitzBernard) de Bidun (abt. 1174 - bef. 1255)

Born about 1174 in Buckinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Biography

An Extent was taken of the lands, of Stowe manor in co Norfolk, held in dower of the gift of John de Bydun, by Maud de Rocheford, sometime the said John's wife, in response to a writ dated 11 November 39 Henry III (1255), which found John died without heirs of his body and the whole barony ought to descend to his five sisters.^[1]

• From Medieval Lands by Charles Cawley:

Matilda, daughter of Thomas FitzBernard & his wife Eugenia Picot. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records " the wife of John Bidun Junior, Matilda....10 years old.... dau. of Thomas fitz Bernard.... and Eugenia Picot.... dau. of Ralph Picot de Kent ...." (“uxor que fuit Johannis de Bidune junioris, Matillis…x annorum…filia Thome filii Bernardi”.... and "Ewgenia Picot…filia Radulfi Picot de Kancia....")^[2]

Another section of the Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records "Stowe was an endowment of Matilda de Bidun...dau. of Thomas fitz Bernard" (“Stowe que est dos Matillidis de Bidune...filia Thome filii Bernardi”) and "his wife Eugenia" (“Eugenia uxor Thome filii Bernardi”)...^[3]

She married secondly --- de Rochford.

Sources

1. ↑ The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol I Henry III, (London: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1904), accessed 2 July 2014, https://archive.org/stream/calendarinquisi00offigoog#page/n145/mode/2up pp.86. Abstract 323 Maud de Rocheford, sometime the wife of John de Bydun
2. ↑ Rotuli Dominabus, Rotulus V, Norffolk, p. 26, and Rotulus X, Cantebrigesire, p. 46.
3. ↑ Rotuli Dominabus, Rotuli IV, Norffolk, p. 29.

• Medieval Lands - JOHN de Bidun