, Derbyshire: photograph by Eirian Evans Sir Richard de Vernon (d. c. 1215) acquired the manor by his late 12th century marriage to the heiress of Nether Haddon and
Haddon Hall, Alice Avenell, daughter of William Avenell. His son, Sir William Vernon, a
High Sheriff of Lancashire and
Chief Justice of Cheshire 1229–1236, married Margaret, the heiress of Sir Robert de Stockport. His son Richard was Chief Justice in 1249. A subsequent descendant, also Richard, married Juliana, daughter of Sir Fulk de Pembrugge, the heiress of
Tong Castle, in the mid-1300s. Benedicta's mother, Lady Isabella Pembrugge (née Lingen) founded the
chantry and
college at
Tong, Shropshire in memory of her three departed husbands.
Tong Church contains many of the Vernon tombs. Benedicta de Ludlow, as well as the Lingen and Pembrugge Arms, are depicted in the chapel's
stained glass window at Haddon Hall. He died in 1565 without a male heir and his estates passed to his daughters. Haddon passed to Dorothy Vernon who married Sir John Manners and became ancestors of the
Dukes of Rutland, present owners of Haddon Hall. File:Tong St Bart - Isabel de Lingen and Fulke de Pembrugge 02.JPG|Isabel de Lingen (died 1446) and her first husband, Sir Fulke de Pembrugge (died 1409). Isabel founded the
chantry and
college at Tong for her own and her husbands' souls. It became the shrine church of the Vernon family of Haddon Hall. Her daughter by her second husband Sir John de Ludlow was Benedicta de Ludlow and is buried in the church File:Tong St Bart - Benedicta de Ludlow and Richard Vernon 02.JPG|
Richard Vernon (died 1451, foreground) and Benedicta de Ludlow. Through their marriage the Vernons of Haddon Hall obtained Tong. Tomb in St Bartholomew's Church, Tong, Shropshire. Richard was
Speaker of the House of Commons in 1426. File:Tong St Bart - Benedicta de Ludlow and Richard Vernon 01.JPG|Benedicta de Ludlow (foreground) and Richard Vernon (died 1451). This tomb has the most impressive sculpture at Tong. Richard was the great nephew of Sir Fulke de Pembrugge as his grandmother Julia de Pembruugue was Sir Fulke sister. File:Tong St Bart - Anne Talbot and Henry Vernon 01.JPG|Tomb of Anne Talbot (died 1494) and Henry Vernon (died 1515). Henry was put in charge of Catherine of Aragon and
Arthur, Prince of Wales by
Henry VII and was with them when Arthur died at Ludlow in 1502. File:Tong St Bart - Arthur Vernon 01.JPG|Arthur Vernon, priest and son of Anne Talbot and Henry Vernon, in the robes of a University of Cambridge MA, on his tomb in the floor of the Golden Chapel at Tong. File:Tong St Bart - Arthur Vernon 02.JPG|Arthur Vernon portrayed preaching in the Golden Chapel at Tong. File:Tong St Bart - Margaret Dymmok and Richard Vernon 01.JPG|Margaret Dymmok and Richard Vernon (died 1517). After his death, Margaret married Sir Richard Manners. File:Tong St Bart - Margaret Vernon and Thomas Stanley 01.JPG|Margaret Vernon and Thomas Stanley (died 1576). George Vernon, son of Richard and Margaret, died without male heir. He left his estates to his daughters: Haddon to Dorothy and Tong to Margaret, who married Stanley, the second son of
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby. Part of a double family tomb. File:Tong St Bart - Edward Stanley 01.JPG|Edward Stanley (died 1632), last of the Vernon heirs to own Tong, which he sold to Thomas Harries about 1630. He was the father of
Venetia Stanley, a famous courtesan of the early 17th century. Lower tier of a double family tomb. ==Vernon of Lostock and Haslington==