VERDON. Bertram de Verdun, the progenitor of this distinguished race, came in with the Conqueror, and was lord of Farneham-Royal, co. Bucks, which he held in chief in 1087, by the serjeanty of providing a glove for the King's right hand, on the day of his coronation, and of supporting his right hand while he held the royal sceptre. ■\''erdun is a town in the N.E. of France, department of Meuse; and it has been suggested that the family were derived from the Counts or Viscounts of Verdun. Vide L'Art de Verifier les Dates, xiii. "141:, Sussex Arch. Coll. x. 68. The Irish Verdous are descended from Bertram Verdon, who accompanied Prince (afterwards King) John, to that country, in 1184, and was appointed Seneschal of the English Pale. DAlton.

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