Thomas de Furnivall, 1st Baron Furnivall

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Thomas de Furnivall, 1st Baron Furnivall (* 2nd half of the 13th century; † 1332 ) was an English nobleman .

Life

The Furnivall family originally came from the village of Fourneville in Normandy . After one of their ancestors Gerard de Furnivall accompanied King Richard the Lionheart on his crusade to the Holy Land , they settled in England. Gerald married Maud, a daughter of Williams de Lovetot from Sheffield, and the family acquired estates in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire .

He was born in the second half of the 13th century and was the eldest son and heir to Sir Thomas de Furnivall, Lords of Worksop and Grassthorpe in Nottinghamshire and Sheffield in Yorkshire. This Sir Thomas de Furnivall had King Henry III. allowed by England to build a stone castle in Sheffield.

After the death of his father on May 12, 1291, Thomas de Furnivall inherited his property, after paying homage to the king on June 2, 1291, who had confirmed his possession of his father's lands. Thomas was then regularly called up for military service from May 1297 to April 1327. He also took part in the Battle of Falkirk on July 22, 1298 . Almost a year earlier he had been appointed to the military council by King Edward I on September 16, 1297 .

In addition to his military service, Thomas de Furnivall was also a valued political advisor to the king, who therefore called him to parliament with a Writ of Summons on June 24, 1295 . As a result, as Baron Furnivall, he became the hereditary peer of the kingdom, because this writ created a hereditary so-called Barony by writ . Even after the death of Edward I, he was succeeded by his successors Edward II and Edward III. regularly invited to the parliamentary sessions and participated in them until January 27, 1331. On January 18, 1308 he was a guest at the solemn coronation of Edward II.

He was married twice. In his first marriage he married Joan le Despenser († 1354), daughter of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser . Failing to obtain permission from the King for his second marriage to Elizabeth, Sir William de Mountagu's widow , he was fined £ 200. He died before April 18, 1332 and was succeeded by his older son from his first marriage, Thomas de Furnivall, as 2nd Baron Furnivall.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Botolph Joseph Mowbray: History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts. Pp. 897-903. ( books.google.de )
  2. ^ The Complete Peerage, Volume V, p. 580, Alan Sutton, London, 1982
  3. ^ The Complete Peerage, Volume V, p. 581
  4. ^ The Complete Peerage, Volume V, p. 582

Web links

Thomas de Furnivalle, 1st Baron Furnivalle on thepeerage.com

predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Furnivall
1295-1332 		Thomas de Furnivall
personal data
SURNAME Furnivall, Thomas de, 1st Baron Furnivall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Furnivall, Sir Thomas de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION political advisor to the King of England
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1332