Person:Maud Nerford (1)

[k] The Earl [John de Warenne], who had formed an association with Maud de Nerford, wife of S. de Diriba, made many attempts to obtain a dissolution of his marriage, first on the ground of consanguinity, later on the ground that he had previously been contracted to Maud, and thirdly that before his marriage he had had carnal knowledge of Mary, sister of Eleanor, Joan's mother. He actually produced a Papal bull declaring the marriage to be invalid, but the English bishops ignored it; and in 1344 and 1345 the Vatican directed that he should be warned and compelled to treat with marital affection his wife, whom he married by dispensation of Clement V and issued a declaration of the validity of the marriage, absolving him in respect of his offence with his wife's aunt. [Complete Peerage, XII/1:511]

1. ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis; Walter Lee Sheppard; and David Faris. Ancestral roots of certain American colonists, who came to America before 1700: the lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and some of their descendants. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 7th Edition c1992)
   231-31.
2. ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis; William R. Beall; and Walter Lee Sheppard. The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and some of their descendants who settled in America during the early colonial years. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1999)
   122-6.
3. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
   XII/1:511 (k).
4. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
   IX:469 (k).