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- Bertram de Verdun was the name of several members of the Norman family of Verdun, native of Avranchin.
For the historian Mark Hagger, the Verdun family lived lavishly in Normandy where they were minor land holders, and after the Norman conquest of England they were granted land in England. Other hypothesis argue Bertram I was related to the lotharingian family of counts of Verdun, the house of Ardennes-Verdun.
Bertram I de Verdun is said to be one of the knight of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings (1066). In the Domesday Book (1086), Bertram de Verdun holds the land and the manor of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire, held before by princess Goda of England. Some historians say Bertram was probably a son (or nephew) of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine. In Domesday Book Bertram is said to have been in Normandy for King William II business, "duc est transmare in servicio regis", and appears in two charts of William de Saint-Calais, bishop of Durham, and King's chief advisor. Bertram's wife's name is unknown, but his son and heir was Bertram II de Verdun (? - c. 1129/30). His son continued to amass land in England, and by 1128 also had been granted land in Staffordshire and Leicestershire. Hagger suggests that he also had assumed an administrative position for Henry I, and was possibly sheriff of Yorkshire in 1100.
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