John de Vescy († 1295)

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John de Vescy (* after 1265; † April 27, 1295 in Conwy ) was an English knight and civil servant. He was the last male member of the Anglo-Norman noble family Vescy.

John was the only son of William de Vescy , a knight in the service of the king, and Isabel of Periton , widow of Robert of Welles († 1265) and second daughter of Adam of Periton . His mother became a co-heir of his grandfather's estates in Northumberland . His father inherited his brother John de Vescy's estates in 1289 and became royal justiciar of Ireland the following year . He then had to resign from his position as judge of the Forests north of Trent , which King Edward I immediately passed on to John. From 1291 to 1292 John defended his father's claim to the Scottish throne without much emphasis . He died during the crackdown on a Welsh uprising in North Wales and was buried in Malton Priory in Yorkshire .

On July 16, 1290, John had married in Westminster Clemence d'Avaugour († 1343), a daughter of Marie de Beaumont and Henry d'Avaugour († 1301) and relatives of the English Queen Eleanor . The marriage had remained childless. His widow received as Wittum Stapleton in Lincolnshire , but after 1307 lived mostly in France. Since John was the only legitimate son of William de Vescy, the latter tried to bequeath part of his property to John's illegitimate half-brother William de Vescy after John's death .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scott L. Waugh: Vescy, William de, Lord Vescy (1245-1297). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  2. ^ Brendan Smith: Britain and Ireland, 900-1300. Insular Responses to Medieval European Change . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999. ISBN 1-139-42533-1 , p. 220
  3. ^ John Carmi Parsons: The Court and Household of Eleanor of Castile in 1290. Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto 1977. p. 48
  4. ^ Charles Henry Browning: Magna Charta barons and their descendants. With the story of the great charter of King John. Genealogical Pub., Baltimore 1991, p. 215
personal data
SURNAME John de Vescy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Vesci, Sir John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight and official
DATE OF BIRTH after 1265
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1295
Place of death Conwy