William Martin, 1st Baron Martin

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William Martin had Newport Castle in Pembrokeshire expanded, the ruins of the gatehouse are still preserved from this time.

William Martin, 1st Baron Martin (also William Martyn or FitzMartin ) (* around 1257, † 1324 ) was an English nobleman.

Life

William Martin came from the FitzMartin family , who owned extensive estates in Somerset and Devon . His ancestor Robert Fitz Martin had conquered Cemais in West Wales in the 12th century . William was a son of Nicholas FitzMartin . After his death in 1282 he inherited the family's estates, but after a long legal battle in 1291 had to recognize the sovereignty of William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke for Cemais. In Newport he had the castle, the headquarters of the Lords of Cemais, expanded.

Martin took part in numerous wars led by King Edward I , including commanding 90 Welsh mercenaries he had recruited during the Franco-English War in Gascony in 1295 . On 23 June 1295 he was appointed as Baron Martin in the Parliament appointed. In 1301 he belonged to the army with which the young heir to the throne Edward led a campaign to Scotland , and as an important baron he was often at the royal court when he became king in 1307 as Edward II. Nevertheless, Martin was not one of the king's confidants. Instead, he was appointed a de Lords Ordainer by the opposition barons in 1310 , who were supposed to work out a reform program for the government of King Edward II. When the barons received news at the end of 1311 that the exiled royal favorite Piers Gaveston had illegally returned from his exile to England or might not have left England at all, Martin and Hugh Courtenay were supposed to check whether Gaveston was in south-west England. From 1315 to 1316 he was royal justiciar of South Wales. After the conclusion of the Treaty of Leake , he was elected by Parliament in York in October 1318 to one of the members of the new Council of State. In this capacity, he and other barons witnessed numerous royal documents for a while.

family

Martin married Eleanor, the widow of John de Mohun from Dunster , Somerset . She was a daughter of Reynold FitzPiers . He had at least three children with her:

  1. ∞ Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln
  2. ∞ Nicholas Audley, 2nd Baron Audley of Heleigh
  • Eleanor Martin
  1. ∞ William Hastings († 1311)
  2. ∞ Philip de Columbiers, Lord Columbiers

He married his son and heir William to a daughter of John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings , his daughter Eleanor married the eldest son of Hastings. His heir William died childless in 1326. As a result, Martin's holdings were divided among his daughters, while the title of Baron Martin fell in Abeyance . After the childless death of Eleanor Martin, James Audley , son of Martin's daughter Joan, inherited the entire property of the FitzMartin family in 1343.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ British listed Buildings: Newport Castle, Feidr Felin, Newport. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .
  2. ^ Adam Chapman: Welsh soldiers in the later Middle Ages . Boydell, Woodbridge 2015, ISBN 978-1-78327-031-6 , p. 26
  3. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 88
  4. ↑ John Robert Maddicott: Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-1322. A Study in the Reign of Edward II. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1970, p. 75
  5. ↑ JS Hamilton: Lords ordainer (act. 1310-1313). 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
  6. ↑ John Robert Maddicott: Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-1322. A Study in the Reign of Edward II. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1970, p. 121
  7. ^ Ralph A. Griffiths: The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages: South Wales, 1277-1536. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1972. ISBN 0-7083-0450-8 , p. 98
  8. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 330
  9. ↑ John Robert Maddicott: Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-1322. A Study in the Reign of Edward II. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1970, p. 231
personal data
SURNAME Martin, William, 1st Baron Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martyn, William, 1st Baron Martin; FitzMartin, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1257
DATE OF DEATH 1324