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Lucy de Mohun
- Preferred Name: Lucy de Mohun
- Gender: F
- FSID: GJC4-F56
- Burial: FEB 1272 in Codnor, Derbyshire, England at LATI: N3.0428 LONG: E1.3749 with note: Amber Valley Borough wasn't even founded until 1983. There are 4 people following this person. How the heck has nobody fixed this?
- Birth: 1227 in England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.4379 LONG: E1.6496
- Death: 1272 in England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.4379 LONG: E1.6496 with note: Buried in Scotland
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“LUCY DE MOHUN, married JOHN DE GREY, Knt., of Codnor, Beeley, Hazelbache, Heanor, Normanton, and Shirland, Derbyshire, Thurrock, Essex, Hoo and Aylesford, Kent, Evington, Leicestershire, Sherringham, Norfolk, etc., son and heir of Richard de Grey, Knt., of Codnor, Derbyshire, Thurrock, Essex, Aylesford and Hoo, Kent, Governor of the Channel Isles, Seneschal of Gascony and Poitou, Constable of Devises, Dover, and Kenilworth Castles, Warden of Cinque Ports, by Lucy, daughter and heiress of John du Hommet (or de Humez), of Humberstone, Leicestershire, Sherringham, Norfolk, and Newbottle Northamptonshire. Her maritagium included the manor of Tunworth, Hampshire. They had one son, Henry, Knt. [1st Lord Grey of Codnor] and two daughters, Joan and Lucy (wife of Brian le Waleys). He was knighted in 1244, and joined with his father against King Henry III. He is said to have brought Carmelites (White Friars) from the Holy Land about 1240 and settled them at Aylesford, Kent. He acquired the manor of Grey, Wiltshire from William de Arundel. SIR JOHN DE GREY died shordy before 5 Jan. 1271/2. In 1272-3 John de Evington arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Lucy, touching common of pasture in Evington, Leicestershire. Lucy married (2nd) before 4 July 1281 (date of pardon for marrying without a license) ARNOLD MURDAC, Knt. In 1284 he acknowledged that he owed Philip de Montgomery 4 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Leicestershire. In 1285, as Arnold Murdak, Knt., of Northamptonshire, he owed a debt of ₤17 to Baroncinus Galteri, and others their partners and merchants of Lucca. On 19 May 1290 he and his wife, Lucy, were acquitted of 100l. of the 200l. by which they made fine with the king for their trespass in marrying without the king's license. SIR ARNOLD MURDAC was living in June 1290.
Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 227-230 (sub Grey of Codnor). Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (H.S.P. 9) (1874): 143-146 (Mohun ped.: "Lucia [de Mohun] uxor Johis Grey de Codner."). Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 4 (1879): 233-234. Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 551; 49 (1888): 161. C.C.R. 1279-1288 (1902): 100, 346. C.C.R. 1288-1296 (1904): 29, 34, 80, 134. Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 276-277. Reg. of William Wickwane, Lord Archbishop of York 1279-1285 (Suttees Soc. 114) (1907): 75. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 383 (Grey arms: Barry argent and azure, with three roundels gules in the chief); 4 (1911): 174-175. Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 18-34. C.P. 6 (1926): 123, 126 footnote n, 135. C.F.R. 11 (1929): 151. Paget (1957) 259: 3 (sub Grey of Codnor). TG 8 (1988): 3-38. National Archives, C 241/6/198; C 241/8/418; C 241/14/19 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).”
=== M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 34 ===
M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 34
Burke: Dormant and Extinct Peerages
M L Call: The Royal Ancestry Bible Vol 1 Chart 229
SURNAME: Also shown as de Mohun
GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Lucy
BIRTH: Also shown as Born Abt 1235
Preferred Parents:
Father: Reginald de Mohun II, b. ABT 1206 in Dunster, Somerset, England d. 20 JAN 1258 in Tormohun, Devon, England
Mother: Hawise FitzGeoffrey, b. ABT 1207 in Streatley, Berkshire, England d. 8 AUG 1247 in Tormohun, Devon, England
Family 1: John de Grey, b. 1225 in Codnor, Derbyshire, England d. 5 JAN 1272 in Broxmouth, Roxburghshire, Scotland
- Henry de Grey 1st Baron, b. 1256 in Codnor, Basford, Derbyshire, England d. 1 SEP 1308 in Aylesford, Kent, England
- Andrew De Gray, b. 1253 in Broxmouth, Haddingtonshire, Scotland d. 1300 in Roxburghshire, Scotland
Family 2: Arnold Murdac, d. AFT 1290
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