Marmaduke of Thwing (knight, † between 1282 and 1284)

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Marmaduke of Thwing (also Marmaduke II of Thwing or Thweng ) († between 1282 and 1284) was an English knight .

Marmaduke of Thwing came from the northern English family Thwing . He was the eldest son of Robert III of Thwing . Before 1257 he had taken over the management of the family estates in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire after the death of his father . In the early 1260s, Thwing Knight Banneret was in the royal household. As a supporter of the royal party, he was captured by Hugh le Despenser during the Second War of the Barons in 1264 at the Battle of Lewes and only released after paying a large ransom.

Before 1242 Thwing had married Lucy , a sister of Peter de Brus . When he died childless around 1272, she and her sisters inherited his estates, including the Skelton reign . Thwing had several sons with Lucy, including:

Since Thwing's eldest son Robert had died before him, his second son Marmaduke became his heir. However, Robert of Thwing had a daughter, Lucy Thwing , to whom her uncle Marmaduke eventually had to admit part of the Brus inheritance.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicholas Vincent: Thwing of, Marmaduke, first Baron Thwing (d. 1323). 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. ↑ Michael Prestwich: An Everyday Story of Knightly Folk . In: Peter R. Coss: Thirteenth Century England IX: Proceedings of the Durham Conference 2001. Boydell, Woodbridge 2003, ISBN 0-85115-575-8 , p. 159
  3. ^ Clive H. Knowles: Despenser, Sir Hugh (c.1223-1265). 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
  4. ↑ Michael Prestwich: An Everyday Story of Knightly Folk . In: Peter R. Coss: Thirteenth Century England IX: Proceedings of the Durham Conference 2001. Boydell, Woodbridge 2003, ISBN 0-85115-575-8 , p. 151
personal data
SURNAME Marmaduke of Thwing
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marmaduke of Thweng; Marmaduke II of Thwing
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH between 1282 and 1284