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DEINCOURT [D'EYNCOURT] Edmund

Birth: ABT 1245 Blankney, Lincolnshire, England
Death: 6 Jan 1327 Granby, Northamptonshire, England

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Edmund, 8th baron, who obtained that remarkable license above mentioned [see
Walter de Ayncourt] from Edward II. He signed, 12 February, 1301, 29th Edward I, the
celebrated letter sent by the barons, assembled in parliament at Lincoln, to Pope
Boniface VIII, denying his jurisdiction in temporal affairs, and denying that Scotland
was a fief of the Roman see. The duplicate of this letter exists amongst the pubic
archives, and the seal of "Edmundus de Eyncourt" thereto appended, is in good
preservation and was engraved in 1729, in the 1st vol. of the "Vetusta Monumenta."
Baron Edmund was also present, 33rd Edward I [1305], when the king refused
permission to the bishop of Durham to present a foreign bishop, on the Pope's
recommendation, to the priory of Coldingham. He had two sons, John and William, who
were with the feudal army at Carlisle, 29th Edward I [1301], in the place of their
father, and figure in the roll of Caerlaverock where John, it is said, 'mult bien fist son
devoir." He d. v.p., and subsequently, William, a commander of distinguished valour,
was killed 23 June, 1314, 7th Edward II, before the Castle of Stirling, on the eve of
the battle of Bannockburn.

Baron Edmund's eldest son, John, left three sons, Edmund, who also d. in the baron's
lifetime; William (afterwards 9th baron), and John. Edmund, the grandson, left a dau.,
Isabel, and the object of the above-mentioned license was to vest the estates in her
uncle, William, next brother of her father, Edmund, in order to prevent the barony
descending to her and thus passing, in case of her marriage, to another name and
family. The youngest brother, John, represented Lincolnshire in parliament, 11th
Edward III [1338], and Nottinghamshire, 14th Edward III. Baron Edmund d. 20th
Edward II [1327] at a very advanced age. He had immense possessions with great
weight and authority; he was prominent in the chief events of his time and attended
his sovereigns on all important occasions of war or council. On his decease, his son
John, and his grandson Edmund, being dead, and the great-granddau. Isabel being
also dead, without issue, William, 9th Lord d'Eyncourt, s. his grandfather, when
twenty-six years of age, as heir by descent as well as by virtue of the licensed entail.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's
Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 170, d'Eyncourt, Barons d'Eyncourt]

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BARONY OF DEINCOURT (I)

SIR EDMUND DEINCOURT, of Blankney and Branston, co. Lincoln, Holmesfield and
Elmton, co. Derby, Granby, Notts, Duddington, Northants, &c., son and heir of Sir
John DEINCOURT, of Blankney, &c. (who died before 14 October 1257) (c), by Agnes,
daughter of Sir Geoffrey DE NEVILLE, of Raby, co. Durham (d). The King took his
homage, though he was still a minor, on or before 8 January 1268/9. He was in the
Army of Wales in 1277, 1282, and 1294, and in the Army of Scotland in 1299. He was
summoned for Military Service from 16 April 1291 to 1 May 1325, to attend the King
wherever he might be, 8 June 1294, to attend the Coronation, 18 January 1307/8, to
Councils from 8 January 1308/9 to 20 February 1324/5, and to Parliament from 6
February 1298/9 to 3 December 1326 by writs directed Edmundo Deyncurt or
Deyncourt, whereby he is held to have become LORD DEINCOURT. He did homage
for his lands in Burnby, co. York, to three successive Archbishops of York, 1299, 18
July 1300, and 3 May 1310. As Edmundus de Eyncourt dominos de Thurgerton', he
took part in the Barons' Letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1. He was one of those
ordered, 3 September 1312, to prohibit the Earl of Lancaster and others from repairing
to the King with horses and arms. By a fine, levied in the octaves of St. Michael he
conveycd the manor and soke of Blankney, with the advowson of the chapel there,
the manors of Branston, Mere, and Granby, a messuage in the bail of Lincoln, the
advowsons of the Priory of Thurgarton and the Hospital of St. Leonard at Stoke, and
the manors of Holmesfield and Elmton, save a messuage, &c., in Elmton, to himself for
life: remainder to William son of John Deincourt, remainder to John brother of the same
William, in successive tail general: remainder to his own right heirs. By another fine, of
the same date, he conveyed the said messuage, &c., in Elmton, to himself for life:
remainder to Hamon de Mascy and Joan his wife [late the wife of Edmund son of John
Deincourt], for her life: remainder to Isabel daughter of Edmund son of John
Deincourt, in tail male: remainder to his own right heirs. He married Isabel, daughter of
Sir Reynold DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset, by his 2nd wife Isabel, daughter of
William (DE FERRERS), EARL OF DERBY. He died 6 January 1326/7. [Complete
Peerage IV:118-20, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(c) This John had livery of his lands, 19 Sep 1246, and was son and heir of Oliver
(who had livery in 1217), by Nichole, to whom Nichole (1st daughter and coheir of
Richard de la Haye, and wife of Gerard de Caunville) gave Duddington in free
marriage; which Oliver was son and heir of Oliver (aged 24 in 1186, m. Amabel, and d.
in or bef. 1201), son and heir of John (who had livery in 1167-8, and d. 6 Nov 1183),
by Alice, sister of Ralph Murdac. John was son and heir of Walter son and heir of
Ralph (who m. Basilie), son and heir of Walter d'Aincurt, the Domesday lord of
Blankney.

(d) This Agnes was widow of Richard de Percy, of Topcliffe, co. York, who d. shortly
bef. 18 Aug 1244. She was his 2nd wife. The Lady Agnes de Percy gave the manor of
Steeping, co. Lincoln, to Edmund d'Eyncourt her son and heir, and his heirs, by deed
dated 20 Edward I. She d. bef. 20 July 1293. The effigy on her seal wears a dress
charged with billets and a fesse dancette, and holds up two shields, the dexter
charged with 5 fusils conjoined in fesse, the sinister with a saltire.

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Parents
DEINCOURT [D'EYNCOURT] John II (ABT 1219 - BEF 14 Oct 1257)
DE NEVILLE Agnes (ABT 1219 - BEF 20 Jul 1293)

Siblings
DEINCOURT [D'EYNCOURT] Edmund (ABT 1245 - 6 Jan 1327)

Marriage To DE MOHUN Isabel (ABT 1245 - BEF 26 Nov 1280)
m.

Notes

Parents
DE MOHUN Reginald (ABT 1206 - 20 Jan 1257)
FITZ GEOFFREY Hawise (ABT 1213 - BEF 8 Aug 1247)

Children by DE MOHUN Isabel ABT 1245 - BEF 26 Nov 1280
DEINCOURT John (ABT 1265 - BEF 6 Jan 1327)
DEINCOURT Margaret (ABT 1275 - BEF 18 Oct 1333)

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