 She was now a wealthy woman, bringing both large estates in her own right as well as dowers from her previous husbands.The medievalist Carol Rawcliffe suggests that "whatever apprehensions Bussy may have felt in following the short-lived Kydale as her third husband were clearly overcome by the prospect of a greatly increased rent-roll".Maud—whom Rawcliffe described as "in her own way, as colourful a character as Bussy himself"—died in 1386.