Avice de Avenell, heiress of Haddon

Avice de Avenell married Richard de Vernon, son of Warine de Vernon Fourth Baron of Shipbroke and Mademoiselle de Balliot 786.,788 (Richard de Vernon was born about 1155 in Shipbrook, Cheshire, England and died after 1205 in England.)

Heiress of Haddon; possible Baroness of Shipbrook.

Family

~Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, "Vernon of Shipbrook Pedigree," p. 252, has the following as children of Richard de Verson of Shipbrrok, living in the time of Richard I:

1. Warin de Vernon, baron of Shipbook, m. Auda, daughter and coheir of William de Malbank
2. Ricahrd de Vernon, brother of Warin, occurs as witness to a deed of Gilbert Bostok
3. Ralph de Verson, witness to Bostock's deed
4. William de Vernon, witness to Bostock's deed, apparently the same with Sir William, judge of Chester, 1230-32, and ancestor of the Vernons of Harlaston and Marple, Haddon, Sudbury, Hilton, etc.
5. Robert de Vernon, witness to Bostock's deed.

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Origins

History, Topgraphy, and Directory of Derbyshire, 1895, p. 308,

The family ended with the death of William de Avenell. He left two adughters as coheirs. One daughter married Richard de Vernon and the other Simon Bassett. The share given to the Vernon's contained the manor house, which Richard de Vernon had a licence to fority it with a twelve foot high wall. Haddon continued for several generations to be the principal residence of the Vernon family.

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References

1. http://www.cheshirenow.co.uk/haddon_hall.html
2. http://cybergata.com/roots/1312.htm cites
   1. 786 Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Published 1891, Harrison and Sons, London, Page 197. < GoogleBooks >.
   2. 788 T. Bulmer, History, Topgraphy, and Directory of Derbyshire, Published 1895; Derbyshire, England, Printed for the Proprietors by T. Snape and Co., Pg. 308, found on < GoogleBooks >.