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of the powerful Verdon family of
Clonmore brought him in addition substantial lands in County Louth. He sat in the Irish Parliament and was a member of the King's Council. He was a highly regarded public servant, but also a determined and acquisitive man of business, who fought a ten-year battle to
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Gyffard family were in possession of part of them. The pardon vested all these lands in him. He died in the autumn of 1424, leaving two sons, Edward, the eldest son and heir, who was still a minor, and Christopher. Sir Walter Lucy was granted all of Thomas
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Matilda had at least three children. Sir Thomas Cruys (died 1424), the son and heir, inherited most of his father's estates, which passed to his own son. One daughter, Maria, married Stephen Derpatrick of Stillorgan and had a daughter Katherine. Another daughter married
279:(died 1316). Matilda's recovery of Clonmore was the result of a determined and lengthy legal struggle against her male cousins, whom her father had tried to make his heirs, ignoring the clear right of his daughters to inherit his lands.
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William de Preston certain rents from his lands at Dundalk, Duleek and
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on the state of Irish affairs, and was paid £20 for his expenses of the journey. The money may also have been, in part, redress for the devastation of his lands at
Booterstown by the
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and at Naul, and acquired other lands in Dublin, Meath and, in right of his wife
Matilda Verdon, in Louth. He held most of his lands directly from the
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