Giles Daubeney (politician, 1399)

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Sir Giles Daubeney (also Giles III Daubeney ) (* 1399 ; † 1446 ) was an English knight and politician.

Origin and youth

Giles Daubeney came from the Daubeney family , a gentry family whose possessions were mainly in Somerset , Cornwall and Bedfordshire . He was the second son of Giles II Daubeney and his wife Margaret Beauchamp . His father died as early as 1403, and after the death of his older brother John in 1409, Giles inherited the family estates. Although he was not yet of legal age, he was allowed to inherit in 1416. Previously, the family estates had been under the tutelage of Queen Joan of Navarre , so the family had not received the income from the estates and their influence had decreased significantly. His legacy was added by the Wittum his mother that her condition until her death in 1420, and by the Wittum his sister Elizabeth Scrope his brother John, who died only in 1440 diminished the widow.

Giles Daubeney and one of his wives. Depiction of his burial bream in Peter and Paul Church in South Petherton

Military service and political activity

From 1418 at the latest, Daubeney fought in France during the Hundred Years War . As a reward for his services, however, he did not receive any possessions there, so that he returned to England in 1421 and took over the management of the family estates. He focused his activities on Somerset, which he represented from 1424 to 1425 as Knight of the Shire during parliaments and where he served as sheriff in 1426 . He then took on numerous other, but minor, local offices in Somerset in the late 1420s. He also took over the office of sheriff in Bedfordshire, where he was born, from 1431 to 1432. He was buried in the church of St Peter and Paul in South Petherton , the family headquarters, where the bream of him and one of his wives is in the south aisle.

Marriages and offspring

Daubeney had been married twice. In his first marriage he had married Joan Darcy , a daughter of Philip Darcy, 4th Baron Darcy de Knayth, shortly after he had come of age . With her he had at least one son:

After the death of his first wife, he married Mary Leke , the eldest daughter of Simon Leek (also Leke ) from Cotham in Nottinghamshire . As her father's co- heir , she brought the estates of Cotham and Nawton in Nottinghamshire and tenement houses in Newark into the marriage. With her he had at least one daughter:

  • Jane Frances Daubeney ∞ Sir Robert Markham (1435–1495)

Daubeney's heir became his son William Daubeney from his first marriage.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Parliament Online: DAUBENEY, Giles (1370 / 1-1403), of Kempston, Beds. and South Petherton, Som. Retrieved April 8, 2018 .
  2. ^ British Listed Buildings: Church of St Peter and St Paul. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
  3. ^ History of Parliament Online: LEEK, Simon, of Leake and Cotham, Notts. Retrieved April 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sir Giles Daubeney on thepeerage.com , accessed April 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Daubeney, Giles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daubeney, Sir Giles; Daubeney, Giles III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1399
DATE OF DEATH 1446