John Iweyn

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John Iweyn († May 28, 1321 in Swansea ) (also called Inge , Yweyn or Oweyn ) was an English knight and henchman of Hugh le Despenser .

Iweyn came from the lower nobility and owned considerable estates in Herefordshire . At the beginning of the 14th century he was the administrator of the English Lord of Gower , William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose , who gave him Loughor Castle as a fief in 1302 . Braose was unpopular with his tenants and when one of the tenants, William de Langton, tried to complain to the king about him in 1302, he was captured by Iweyn in March 1302 and incarcerated at Oystermouth Castle until he withdrew his complaint.

Around 1318 Iweyn von Braoses moved to the service of Hugh le Despenser. In 1319 Iweyn became sheriff of Carmarthenshire . After Baron Braose lost his land to Hugh le Despenser in 1320, Iweyn Despenser's sheriff of Glamorgan . The tyrannical rule of Despenser, who also had a great influence on King Edward II , led to the Despenser War , a joint rebellion of the English Marcher Lords and the Welsh people against Despenser. Iweyn unsuccessfully defended Neath Castle against the rebels in May 1321 , was captured during the capture of the castle and brought to Swansea. Braoses son John Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray , who considered himself to be the rightful owner of Gower, accusing him of treasonous support Despensers and let him in Swansea Castle by beheading executed .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BG Charles, HD Emanuel: Welsh records in the Hereford capitular archives. In: The National Library of Wales Journal 8 (1953), p. 65
  2. ^ Diane M. Williams: Gower. A Guide to ancient and historic monuments on the Gower peninsula. Cadw, Cardiff 1998. ISBN 1-85760-073-8 , p. 10
  3. ↑ Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan: III - Part 1b: Medieval Secular Monuments, the Later Castles from 1217 to the present , Her Maj. Stat. Office, London 2000, ISBN 978-1-871184-22-8 , p. 232
  4. ↑ JR Maddicott: Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-1322. A Study in the Reign of Edward II. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 1970. ISBN 978-0-19821837-1 , pp. 262-263
personal data
SURNAME John Iweyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John Oweyn; John Yweyn; John Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1321
Place of death Swansea