Eudo de la Zouche

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Eudo de la Zouche (also Eon de la Zouche ; † 1279 ) was an English nobleman.

He came from the Zouche family and started the Northamptonshire branch of the family. His grandfather Alan de la Zouche had come to England from Brittany in the 12th century . While his older brother Alan de la Zouche († 1270) inherited the estates of his father Roger, who died in 1238, Eudo entered the service of King Henry III as a younger son . In 1254 he was part of the entourage that accompanied Queen Eleanore to Gascony , where she met her husband, King Henry III. met. At the end of the 1250s, Eudo was part of the suite of the heir to the throne, Edward . During the war against the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and during the Second Barons' War , he was tasked with defending the castles of Edward in Cheshire in 1262 . He was believed to have remained loyal to the king during the Second Barons' War. In 1268 he married Millicent († 1299), the widow of John de Montalt and daughter of William de Cantilupe and Eva de Briouze . In 1273 she became the co-heir of her brother George de Cantilupe, who died childless, and inherited scattered properties in Ireland and several estates in south-west England and the Midlands , including Harringworth in Northamptonshire. From his marriage, Eudo had three daughters and at least two sons, including:

His son, William Zouche, became his heir.

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SURNAME Zouche, Eudo de la
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zouche, Eudo I .; Zouche, Eon; Zouche, Eudo la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1279