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Birth:          ABT 1370 Willoughby with Sloothby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          4 Dec 1409 Eresby Manor, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England

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Note:
William de Willoughby, 5th Lord (Baron) Willoughby de Eresby, KG (c 1401); born 
c1370; assisted usurpation of Duke of Lancaster (later Henry IV) 1399 and attended 
the abdication of Richard II in the Tower of London 29 Sep 1399; married 1st by 23 
April 1383 Lucy, daughter of 5th Lord (Baron) Strange (of Knockyn); married 2nd after 
1 Aug 1402 but before 9 Aug 1404, as the 2nd of her four husbands, Joan, sister and 
coheir of 4th/6th and last Earl of Kent of the 1321 creation, and died 4 Dec 1409, 
having by his 1st wife had, with four daughters (including Margery, married 14 Nov 
1406, 5th Lord (Baron) FitzHugh and had issue). [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF WILLOUGHBY OF ERESBY (V) 1396

WILLIAM (DE WILLOUGHBY), LORD WILLOUGHBY, son and heir, by 1st wife, was 
born circa 1370 and given seisin of his lands, 27 September 1396. He was summoned 
to Parliament from 30 November 1396 to 26 October 1409, by writs directed Willelmo 
de Wilughby; was one of the peers who swore at Westminster, 30 September 1397, to 
observe the statutes made by Parliament; joined the Duke of Lancaster in Yorkshire, 
July 1399, shortly after his landing at Ravenspur; was present in the Tower, 29 
September 1399, at the abdication of Richard II, to whose imprisonment he agreed, 23 
October following, and in the Parliament which met in January 1400/1, when the lands 
of the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury were declared forfeit. He appears to 
have taken part in Henry IV's expedition into Scotland, August 1400; K.G. circa 1401; 
was among those appointed, 13 October 1402, to negotiate with Owain Glyndwr about 
the ransom of Reynold, Lord Grey (of Ruthin); remained loyal during the Percy 
rebellion in 1403; a Commissioner to supervise the expulsion of aliens from the realm, 
21 February 1403/4; was appointed one of the King's Council, March 1403/4 and 
again in 1406; a Commissioner for the trial of Archbishop Scrope, June 1405; and was 
one of the Lords temporal who sealed the Acts settling the succession to the Crown, 7 
June and 22 December 1406.

He married, 1stly, before 23 April 1383, Lucy, daughter of Roger (LESTRANGE), 5th 
LORD STRANGE, by Aline, daughter of Edmund (FITZALAN), EARL OF ARUNDEL. 
She was living, 28 April 1398, and was probably buried at Spilsby. He married, 2ndly, 
between 1 August 1402 and 9 August 1404, Joan, widow of Edmund, "of Langley", 
DUKE OF YORK (5th son of EDWARD III; died 1 August 1402), sister and coheir of 
Edmund (DE HOLAND), 4th EARL OF KENT, daughter of Thomas, 2nd EARL OF 
KENT, by Alice, daughter of Richard (FITZALAN), EARL OF ARUNDEL. He died 4 
December 1409 at Edgefield, and was buried at Spilsby. M.I. Joan married, 3rdly 
(licence 6 September 1410, to marry in the chapel of Faxflete, co. York), as his 2nd 
wife, Henry (LE SCROPE), 3rd LORD SCROPE (of Masham), who died s.p. 5 August 
1415, being beheaded at Southampton. She married, 4thly, between Michaelmas 1415 
and 27 April 1416 (pardon for marrying without licence, 14 August following), as his 
1st wife, Henry (BROMFLETE), LORD VESSY, who died s.p.m. 16 January 1468/9. 
She, who was said to be aged 36 in 1416, died s.p. 12 April 1434. [Complete Peerage 
XII/2:661-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Parents
DE WILLOUGHBY Robert (ABT 1349 - 9 Aug 1396)
DE SKIPWITH Alice (ABT 1355 - BEF 1372)

Siblings
WILLOUGHBY William (ABT 1370 - 4 Dec 1409)

Marriage To LE STRANGE Lucy (ABT 1367 - AFT 28 Apr 1398)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
LE STRANGE Roger (ABT 1327 - 26 Aug 1382)
FITZ ALAN Aline (Olive) (1325 - 20 Jan 1386)

Children by LE STRANGE Lucy ABT 1367 - AFT 28 Apr 1398
WILLOUGHBY Margaret (Margery) (ABT 1397 - BEF 22 Oct 1452)

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