Maud de Badlesmere

  General Notes:

At the age of 11Maud was imprisoned in the Tower of London along with her mother, Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere and her four siblings, after the former refused Queen consort Isabella admittance to Leeds Castle and ordered an assault upon her when she attempted entry.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Marriage: to Robert FitzPayn, 1316.

• Marriage: to John de Vere, 1335.

Maud married Earl John de Vere, son of Sir Alphonsus de Vere and Jane Foliot, in 1335. (Earl John de Vere was born on 12 March 1312 and died on 24 January 1360.)