The romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn speaks of a harmonious relationship between the sometime outlaw Fulk FitzWarin III of Whittington and his beautiful and wealthy first wife Dame Maud ‘de Caus’ who, amid the turbulence of the Welsh frontier, bore Fulk several surviving children. When Maud died around 1226 she was buried in the New Abbey at Alberbury, on Shropshire's western border, which her husband had founded a short time before (‘E, n'I a geres après, morust dame Mahaud de Caus, sa femme, e fust enteree en cele priorie’). For his part, Fulk FitzWarin went on to marry another beautiful and high-born Englishwoman called Clarice d'Auberville, with whom he probably sired further children; when husband and wife died within a year of each other, in the late 1250s, both were also interred at Alberbury.

Although the burial location of Fulk FitzWarin's two wives is recorded only in the romance, the harmony, if not affection, between Fulk and the Lady Maud, his first wife, is attested by Fulk's original grants to the priory, where he remembers Maud's soul in the pro anima clauses of his charters. Indeed, the charters reveal that Fulk FitzWarin continued to include his first wife – the lady who had borne him a son and heir – among those for whom he sought spiritual relief for nearly thirty years after her death. In 1252, despite his marriage to Clarice d'Auberville, he gave his own body for burial in the priory for the health of his soul and those of his first wife Maud, his father Fulk and his mother Hawise, each of them long dead.