John de Lisle, 2nd Baron Lisle (1318-1355)

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John de Lisle, 2nd Baron Lisle KG ( lat. Iohanni de Insula de Rubeo Monte , * around 1318, † October 14, 1355 ) was an English nobleman and military man.

Life

He was the son of Robert de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle († 1343) from his marriage to Margaret de Beauchamp, daughter of Sir Walter de Beauchamp († 1303) from Alcester in Warwickshire .

When he married in 1332, his father gave him the property at Campton in Bedfordshire . In 1336 his father provided him with further estates including Harewood Castle in Yorkshire , which enabled him to join the army of King Edward III with six men-at-arms . to connect. In the same year the king proposed him to a Knight Bachelor . In 1338 he served as a military man in the border area with Scotland and in the siege of Dunbar , but was subsequently deployed in France . In October 1339 he was with the king in Buironfosse , Philip VI. of France, however, avoided a battle. In 1341 he was in Aquitaine and in 1342 in Brittany , where he was captured, but was later exchanged for a French nobleman and commanded a force during the siege of Nantes . He returned to England, where, when his father died in 1343 , he had inherited his title of nobility as Baron Lisle and his lands including the ancestral home of Rougemont Castle in Exeter , Devonshire . In the spring of 1345 he joined an expedition under Henry of Grosmont, 1st Earl of Derby, to Gascony . He participated with Walter de Mauny in the defense of the fortress in Aiguillon and was temporarily in command of the fortress in St. Sauveur . In May 1346 he was granted a pension of 40 pounds for the duration of the wars in France, which was to be paid from the income of the monastery of St Neots . He took part in the campaign at the side of the king, which began with a landing at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue on July 12, 1346 and culminated in the victory at the Battle of Crecy on August 26, 1346. With his retinue of six knights, eleven squires and twenty-three archers, he fought in the Battle of Crecy under William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton on the left wing. After the battle, the king proposed him to the Knight Banneret and granted him a pension of £ 200. He also accompanied the king to the siege of the city of Calais , which capitulated on August 4, 1347.

On April 9, 1347 he was with the king at a tournament in Lichfield , in which he was referred to together with ten other knights as "Knights of the King's Chamber", and took part in another tournament at Eltham Palace in the same year . When the Order of the Garter was founded on April 23, 1348, he was accepted as a Knight Companion . In June 1348 his land was confiscated because he had gone abroad against a royal order. In January 1349 he was pardoned. In August 1350 he was with the king's forces defeating a Spanish fleet. In October 1351 he founded a collegiate foundation in Harewood and held the offices of sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire . He was also appointed Governor of Cambridge Castle for life .

As Baron Lisle he was first convened on November 25, 1350 and last on March 15, 1354 by Writ of Summons to the sessions of Parliament .

In the summer of 1355 he sailed with the Crown Prince Edward of Woodstock in Gascony. While he was with this on a foray from Bordeaux to Narbonne , he was killed on October 14, 1355 battle.

From his marriage in 1332 to Maud de Gray, daughter of Henry Gray, 3rd Baron Gray de Wilton , he had two daughters and three sons, of which the eldest, Sir Robert de Lisle (1336-1399), was the 3rd Baron Lisle inherited.

literature

  • Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham: Magna Carta Ancestry. A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Volume 3, Salt Lake City 2011, ISBN 1-4499-6639-X , p. 30.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 5.
  2. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 6.
  3. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 1.
predecessor Office successor
Robert de Lisle Baron Lisle
1343-1355 		Robert de Lisle
personal data
SURNAME de Lisle, John, 2nd Baron Lisle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iohanni de Insula de Rubeo Monte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH around 1318
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1355