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Maud le Vavasour was the daughter of Robert le Vavasour, deputy sheriff of Lancashire (1150–1227), and his first wife, an unnamed daughter of Adam de Birkin.
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Participant of the legend of Robin Hood might be based on him. She had a half-brother, Sir John le Vavasour who married Alice Cockfield, by whom he had issue. Maud"s paternal grandfather was William le Vavasour, Lord of Hazlewood, and Justiciar of England.
Her maternal grandfather was Adam fitz Peter of Birkin.
Maud was heiress to properties in Edlington, Yorkshire and Narborough in Leicestershire. Maud is the main protagonist in Elizabeth Chadwick"s Lords of The White Castle, which relates in fictional form, her life and adventures as the wife of Fulk FitzWarin.
