Private User sent this by the messaging system and I thought it important to post on her profile for all of our education:
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I hope you do not mind me sharing that this naming of Alice as a 'de Verdun' arises from a mis-transcription of a record from Cheshire, which has spread on the wings of the internet.
The correct name of her family was 'de VERNON'. A check on old medieval records in Cheshire will reveal that it was the de Vernons who were connected to Ollerton and not the de Verdon family. It is an easy mistake to make, even more so as the design of their heraldry was identical, but with quite different colours.
Vernon: Argent fretty sable.
See an example here:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp140-144
And Vernon of Haddon & Haslington, Cheshire:
http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/visitations/CV29.html
Verdon: Or, fretty gules
https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/thumb/f/fb/Stirling_Roll-81.jpg/...
This website appears to have been corrected now, and shows Alice's father as Ralph de Vernon.
http://bigelowsociety.com/Baguley.html
"Richard de Baguley, whose wife was Alice daughter and heir of Ralph de Vernon, was lord of Baguley, and his son Ralph de Baguley succeeded him"
I hope that this is helpful - it certainly isn't my intent to presume on the genealogy you present, but to correct this widely spread historic error.
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