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John Mautravers V
- Preferred Name: John Mautravers V[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- Alternate Name: Maltravers
- Gender: M
- FSID: GSMD-MYN
- Spouse: with note: Description: 2 - Joan Foliot & Eleanor De Gorges
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- Birth: 1266 in Woolcombe, Dorset, England at LATI: N0.8446 LONG: E2.5702 with note: He was 30 or more at his father's death.
- Nickname:
- Death: ABT 1341 in Woolcombe, Dorset, England at LATI: N0.8446 LONG: E2.5702
- Death: 5 JUL 1344 in England with note: GEDCOM Data
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-de-Maltravers-of-Woolcombe/6000000000560073835?through=6000000002447167153
- Children: with note: Description: 1 Child (Joan Foliot) & 3 Children (Eleanor De George)
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- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
«b»Biography«/b»
Knighted with Edward, prince of Wales, on 12 May 1306; was a conservator of the peace for Dorset in 1307, 1308, and 1314; served in Scotland on various occasions between 1314 and 1322, and was summoned to go to Ireland in February 1317 to resist Edward Bruce, and in 1325 for service in Guienne. He was again summoned for service in Scotland in 1327 and 1331, and in 1338 had orders to guard his manors near the sea against invasion.
«b»Marriages«/b»
Eleanor Gorges, and had issue.
Joan Foliot, and had issue. After the death of Maltravers, Joan married Alexander de Venables.
=== !Weis. 59-32. ===
!Weis. 59-32.
=== SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.25, 45, 46, 48, 50; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
=== note ===
He was age 30 and more at his father's death. He was summoned for military service abroad in May, 1297; to the muster at Carlyle, June 24, 1300, for service against the Scots; and again (as one of the fideles of Ireland) in 1301 and in 1302, and in 1314-1333. In 1316 and 1317 he was in Ireland, serving against Edward Bruce, and in Feb 1324/25 he was summoned for service in Guienne. He and his son John were both knighted on May 22, 1306, at the knighting of Prince Edward. He was conservator of the peace in Dorset, 1307-29. In May, 1324, he was summoned to attend the Great Council at Westminster. In the political troubles of the reign of Edward II he took the King's side, while his son John was an adherent of Thomas, earl of Lancaster.
=== Sir John Maltravers & wife Eleanor, daug ===
Sir John Maltravers & wife Eleanor, daughter of Sir Ralph de Gorges of Litton and Wraxall. [Ancestral Roots]
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JOHN MAUTRAVERS, son and heir, was returned as aged 30 and more at his father's death. In April 1286, as John, son of John Mautravers, he had protection for 3 years, staying in England; and in 1289, with his wife Eleanor, staying still in England, leave to appoint attorneys in Ireland. In March 1297 he had livery of his inheritance, having done homage. He was summoned for military service abroad in May 1297 to the muster at Carlisle, 24 June 1300, for service against the Scots, and again (as one of the fideles of Ireland) in 1301 and in 1302, and 1314-1333; in 1316 and 1317 he was in Ireland, serving against Edward Bruce, and in February 1324/5 was summoned for service in Guienne. He and his son John were both knighted, 22 May 1306, at the knighting of Prince Edward. He was a conservator of the peace in Dorset, 1307-1329. In May 1324 he was summoned to attend the Great Council at Westminster. In the political troubles of the reign of Edward II he took the King's side, while his son John was an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.
He married, 1stly, in or before 1289, Eleanor, sister of Master Thomas DE GORGES. She was living 1314. He married, 2ndly, Joan, widow of Nicholas DE PERCY, who died in 1324, and daughter and heir of Sir Walter FOLIOT, by his wife Ada or Alda, daughter and heir of Sir Laurence DE SAMFORD of Melbury (h). He was living 26 January 1340/1, but dead in June 1341. His widow, who was aged 26 and more in 1330 (k), was heiress (inter alia) of a sixth part of the barony of Nantwich in Cheshire. She married, 3rdly, Sir Alexander DE VENABLES, with whom she nominated attorneys for Ireland 7 September 1342. She died before 11 February 1348/9 (c). [Complete Peerage VIII:579-81, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(h) By his 2nd wife Sir John had 3 daughters, Alice, Joan and Elizabeth. Joan dsp., but Elizabeth had issue and long survived her mother, though not returned as coheir in the Inq.p.m. quoted in note "c" on following page.
(k) When her mother died. On 16 Mar. 1336/7 William, son of William de Percy, parson of Folke, Dorset, was to be arrested for the abduction of Joan, wife of John Mautravers, the elder.
(c) When the writ to the excheator was issued. Her heirs (as returned in Cheshire) were her two daughters: (i) Joan, her daughter by Nicholas de Percy, then aged 26 and wife of Piers de Brewes; (ii) Alice, her daughter by John Mautravers, then aged 21. As Alice, mother of John Browning, she was living in 1415.
=== JOHN MAUTRAVERS, son and heir, was retur ===
JOHN MAUTRAVERS, son and heir, was returned as aged 30 and more at his father's death. In April 1286, as John, son of John Mautravers, he had protection for 3 years, staying in England; and in 1289, with his wife Eleanor, staying still in England, leave to appoint attorneys in Ireland. In March 1297 he had livery of his inheritance, having done homage. He was summoned for military service abroad in May 1297 to the muster at Carlisle, 24 June 1300, for service against the Scots, and again (as one of the fideles of Ireland) in 1301 and in 1302, and 1314-1333; in 1316 and 1317 he was in Ireland, serving against Edward Bruce, and in February 1324/5 was summoned for service in Guienne. He and his son John were both knighted, 22 May 1306, at the knighting of Prince Edward. He was a conservator of the peace in Dorset, 1307-1329. In May 1324 he was summoned to attend the Great Council at Westminster. In the political troubles of the reign of Edward II he took the King's side, while his son John was an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.
Married twice;
1stly), in or before 1289, Eleanor, sister of Master Thomas DE GORGES. (b: Abt 1262 in Wraxall, Somerset, England (daughter of Sir Ralph de Gorges of Litton and Wraxall) 1289 in Dorsetshire, England She was living 1314
Had three children;
1) John VI 1St Baron De Maltravers b: Abt 1290 in Woolcombe, Dorsetshire, England
2) Edward Maltravers
3) Robert Maltravers
2ndly) Joan, widow of Nicholas DE PERCY, who died in 1324, and daughter and heir of Sir Walter FOLIOT, by his wife Ada or Alda, daughter and heir of Sir Laurence DE SAMFORD of Melbury (h). He was living 26 January 1340/1, but dead in June 1341. His widow, who was aged 26 and more in 1330 (k), was heiress (inter alia) of a sixth part of the barony of Nantwich in Cheshire. She married, 3rdly, Sir Alexander DE VENABLES, with whom she nominated attorneys for Ireland 7 September 1342. She died before 11 February 1348/9 (c). [Complete Peerage VIII:579-81, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(h) By his 2nd wife Sir John had 3 daughters, Alice, Joan and Elizabeth. Joan dsp., but Elizabeth had issue and long survived her mother, though not returned as coheir in the Inq.p.m. quoted in note "c" on following page.
(k) When her mother died. On 16 Mar. 1336/7 William, son of William de Percy, parson of Folke, Dorset, was to be arrested for the abduction of Joan, wife of John Mautravers, the elder.
(c) When the writ to the excheator was issued. Her heirs (as returned in Cheshire) were her two daughters: (i) Joan, her daughter by Nicholas de Percy, then aged 26 and wife of Piers de Brewes; (ii) Alice, her daughter by John Mautravers, then aged 21. As Alice, mother of John Browning, she was living in 1415.
Abbrev: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 59-32
Abbrev: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
Title: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
Date: 8 Dec 2000
Page: 88-6
Abbrev: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: VIII:279-81
Text: 30+ at father's death.
Abbrev: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: VIII:580-1
Text: date implied by death of 1st husb.
=== !Source: Sir Bernard Burkes Dormant and ===
!Source: Sir Bernard Burkes Dormant and Extinct Perrage pages351.Possessed holdings in Dorset,Somerset,Wilts,Gloucester & Burks Counties by his2nd.wife Joan Folliott he had 3 daughters
=== Source: Title: Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeit ===
Source: Title: Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages Author: Sir Bernard Burke Publication: Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883 Repository: Call Number: ISBN 0-8063-0789-7 Media: Book Page: p. 351, Maltravers, Baron Maltravers
Preferred Parents:
Father: John Mautravers, Knight, b. 1238 in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England d. 28 FEB 1297 in Dorset, England
Mother: Joan de Sandford, b. 1239 in Wormleighton, Warwickshire, England d. 1297 in Meriden, Warwickshire, England
Family 1: Eleanor de Gorges, b. 1268 in Tothill, Lincolnshire, England
- John Mautravers VI, b. APR 1290 in Woolcombe, Dorset, England d. 16 FEB 1365 in Lytchett Matravers, Poole, Dorset, England
Family 2: Joan Foliot, b. ABT 1304 in Melbury Abbas, Dorset, England d. 11 FEB 1349 in Nantwich, Cheshire, England
Sources:
- Title: IPM for Roger Mautravers
Author: J. E. E. S. Sharp, E. G. Atkinson, J. J. O'Reilly and G. J. Morris, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 112', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 9, Edward III (London, 1916), pp. 422-441. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol9/pp422-441 [accessed 2 February 2020].
Publication: Name: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol9/pp422-441;
Note: 648. ROGER MAUTRAVERS.
Writ, 1 September, 25 Edward III [1351].
GLOUCESTER. Inq. taken at Gloucester, Saturday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 25 Edward III.
Luttle Shurdinton within the manor of Beggeworth. A messuage, a carucate of land, 4a. meadow, 3a. pasture and 13s. 4d. rent held for life by service of rendering yearly to John de Ferrers and Elizabeth his wife 6d. or a pair of gilt spurs, as part of the dower (nomine dotis) of the said Elizabeth, which she holds of the inheritance of John le Straunge in the manor of Beggeworth; also two messuages, 15a. land held in fee by knight’s service, of the same John and Elizabeth, of her dower as above.
He held no more lands &c. in the county.
He died on 14 December, 22 Edward III [1348]. John Mautravers, son of John Mautravers brother of the deceased, aged 60 years, is his heir.
C. Edw. III. File 112. (35.)
Page: Mentioned in this source.
- Title: Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward I, vol. 3: 1288-1296
Publication: Name: https://www.archive.org/stream/calendarclosero01changoog#page/n421/mode/2up;
Note: 1294
July 8. Portsmouth.
Robert de Bohun came before the king, on Thursday after the Translation of St. Thomas, and sought to replevy to John Mautravers and Eleanor, his wife, their land in Rodberghe near Munchenhampton, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against John de Rodberge. This is signified to the justices.
- Title: Mautravers in the Complete Peerage
Author: Cokayne, George Edward and H.A. Doubleday et. al eds. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. VIII: Lindley to Moate, 2nd edition. (London, 1932).
Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/594161/?offset=0#page=599&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=Mautravers;
Page: He appears on page 579-581 (beginning with image 599)
- Title: Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 9. 1349-1354
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/calendarofcloser09grea/page/312/mode/2up;
Note: June 22. Westminster
To Maurice fitz Thomas, earl of Dessemond. Order to deliver to John Mautravers the manor of Radegell in Ireland, certifying the king without delay if there is any cause why he should not do so, as the king pardoned John the forfeiture, incurred by him by reason of the judgment against him for the death of Edmund earl of Kent, with the assent of the prelates, of Edward prince of Wales, Henry duke of Lancaster, William de Bohun earl of Northampton, John earl of Kent and the other barons and men of the conned, and restored John to his former estate, restoring his lands to him, and now the king has learned that Maurice has entered the said manor, which Edward Mautravers, John's brother, held for life of John's inheritance of the grant of John Mautravers the elder, John's father, whose heir he is, pretending that the manor is held of him and pertains to him or his escheat by John's forfeiture, wherefore the king has determined that if the manor ought to be called forfeit by reason of the said judgment, it ought to pertain to the king and to none other.
- Title: Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward I, vol. 2: 1279-1288
Publication: Name: https://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924096297969#page/n71/mode/2up;
Note: 1280
Ellen, late the wife of Ralph de Gorges, acknowledges that she owes to John Mautravers 400 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of her lands and chattels in co. Dorset. — The chancellor received this recognisance and ordered it to be enrolled.
To make this payment Ellen found as surety Matthew de Columbar[iis], who acknowledged the money aforesaid, and granted that it shall be levied, in Ellen's default, of his lands and chattels in cos. Southampton and Wilts.
- Title: IPMs for John Mautravers
Author: 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 79', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 3, Edward I, ed. J.E.E.S. Sharp and A.E. Stamp (London, 1912), pp. 265-278. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol3/pp265-278 [accessed 2 February 2020].
Publication: Name: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol3/pp265-278;
Note: 404. JOHN MAUTRAVERS.
Writ, 28 Feb. 25 Edw. I [1297].
BERKS. Inq. 10 March, 25 Edw. I.
Chelreye. A court, garden &c., 160a. arable, 20a. meadow, pasture, 36s. rent of freemen, 28s. rent of customers with their works, and a dovecot, held of Hugh de Say by service of 1/2 knight’s fee.
John his son, aged 30 at the Purification, 25 Edw. I, is his next heir,
SOMERSET. Inq. made at Gevele on Saturday before St. Gregory. 25 Edw. I.
Hyneford. The manor (extent given) held of the earl Marshal, of Strugoyl, by service of being constable (servicium constabular’) of Strogoil.
Heir as above, aged 30 at the feast of St. Michael last.
[GLOUCESTER.] Inq. Friday before St. Gregory the Pope, 25 Edw. I.
Wodechestre. The manor (extent given) held of the king in chief, as of the honour of Wycht, by service of rendering to the king 40s. when scutage runs.
Heir as above, aged 24 and more.
DORSET. Inq. 8 March, 25 Edw. I.
Langetone. A hide of land, viz.—24a. arable, 8a. meadow and 62 1/2a. pasture, with a court and 1 1/2a. of close, held of the king in chief as of the honour of Albemarle by serjeanty, that is to say he ought to come at the king’s command to take venison in time of grease (pinguedinis) at Carsbrock in the Isle at the king’s charges, on the first day with his own horses (equitatura) and on following days, so long as he shall be there for the same purpose (pro eodem), with the king’s horses and all other charges; 1/2 hide of land held of John de Clavile; 1/2 hide of land held of Robert son of Payn; and 1/2 virgate of land held of Ingram le Waleys; and there are 23s. 5d. of assised rent, and the advowson of the church.
Lichet. The manor (extent given) with the advowson of the church, held of Joan, countess of Gloucester and Hertford, for 5 knights’ fees.
Wychampton. The manor (extent given), including a wood within the bounds of the chace of Craneborne and the advowson of the church, held of the same countess, of the honour of Craneborn, for 5 knights’ fees, for which suit is due every three weeks at the hundred of Craneborn.
Heir as above, aged 30.
C. Edw. I. File 79. (4.)
Page: Mentioned in this source.
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