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Birth:          ABT 1290 Lytchett Matravers, Dorsetshire, England
Death:          16 Feb 1364 Woolcombe Matravers, Dorsetshire, England
Burial:         Lytchett Matravers, Dorsetshire, England

Notes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maltravers,_2nd_Baroness_Maltravers
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I12442
John Maltravers, b. c1290, d. 1364, Lord Maltravers (or Maultravers), knighted 22 May 
1306, son of Sir John Maltravers & wife Eleanor, daughter of Sir Ralph de Gorges of 
Litton and Wraxall. [Ancestral Roots]

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BARONY OF MAUTRAVERS (I)

JOHN MAUTRAVERS, 1st son and heir by 1st wife, born circa 1290, was made a 
knight 22 May 1306, at the knighting of Edward, Prince of Wales. He fought at 
Bannockburn, 24 June 1314, and was taken prisoner. In October he was returned as a 
knight of the shire for Dorset, and was going to Gascony on the King's service in Mar. 
1319/20. He espoused the cause of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and received several 
pardons in 1321; but on 6 December his goods were ordered to be seized, and on 5 
January 1321/2 he and his brother Edward Mautravers were under order of arrest. He 
took part in the attack upon and burning of Bridgnorth, and on 16 March fought for 
the Earl of Lancaster at Boroughbridge. He escaped capture, and appears to have 
returned home. His lands were seized, but he escaped overseas. He returned with 
Queen Isabel and Roger de Mortimer in September 1326, and soon rose to high 
favour, receiving in March and April 1327, for his services to Queen Isabel and the 
King abroad and at home, Winterborne Hutton and other manors. Early in April he and 
Thomas de Berkeley received charge of the deposed King, who was then in the 
custody of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, at Kenilworth, and took him by night to Corfe 
Castle and thence, via Bristol, to Berkeley Castle, where, it is said, the King was 
murdered; and at the end of the month he and Maurice and Thomas de Berkeley were 
sent to Bristol to collect arms for the Scottish expedition, service in which met with 
much opposition locally. In July he and Thomas de Berkeley were appointed chief 
keepers of the peace in the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Gloucester, Hereford, Wilts, 
Hants, Oxon and Berks. In 1328 he was keeper of the castles of Corfe and 
Corregcennen (Carmarthen), and Steward of the King's household. In 1329 he was 
Keeper of the Forest south of Trent, and justice in eyre of the forest of Berks, &c. He 
was summoned to Parliament on 25 January 1329/30 and 23 October 1330, by writs 
directed Johanni de Mautravers Juniori, whereby he is held to have become LORD 
MAUTRAVERS. He was summoned again on 15 November 1350. In February 1329/30 
he was appointed joint commissioner to inquire of felonies, &c., in London. Early in 
1330 Edmund, Earl of Kent, being persuaded that his brother Edward II was still alive, 
entrusted letters addressed to him to Mautravers, who delivered them to Roger de 
Mortimer, which led to the arrest, confession, condemnation, and execution of the Earl 
a few weeks later. The part he had played in bringing about the judicial murder of the 
King's uncle served Mautravers ill when Mortimer fell from power in October. 
Mautravers was condemned in the Parliament which met 26 November 1330, and was 
sentenced to hanging and beheading; a reward of 1,000 marks was offered for taking 
him alive, and a price of £500 placed on his head, and his lands and offices were 
forfeited. He escaped by way of Cornwall to Germany, where he lived in obscurity for 
several years. In 1334 he offered to make a confession, and William de Montagu was 
sent to interview him. In 1339 he received a grant of £100 per annum, presumably in 
consideration of his scheming with Jacob van Arteveldt to bring Flanders to the King's 
side in the coming war with France; and in February 1341/2 his wife Agnes had 
licence to stay with him in Flanders, apparently on the King's service. In October 1343 
he was commissioned to obtain justice from Flemish burgomasters and others for 
certain merchants of England wrongfully imprisoned in Flanders, contrary to the 
proclamation. In May and June 1344 he and his son John appear to have been in 
Ireland on the King's service. For some time past the way had been prepared for his 
reconciliation with the King, and when Edward III arrived at the Swine in Flanders in 
July 1345 to meet Jacob van Arteveldt, Mautravers humbly submitted himself, and 
asked for a trial, as he had been condemned unheard. The King accordingly granted 
him a safe conduct in August, so that he might appear at the coming Parliament, doing 
this in consideration of the good place Mautravers had held for the King in Flanders 
and elsewhere, thereby losing all his goods in the cause and being unable to stay 
safely in that country. In October he was sent on an embassy to Ghent. In June 1348 
he was sent on another mission to that city, and, as John Mautravers, the father, was 
appointed Keeper of the Channel Islands. In September 135o he and his wife had 
licence to cross the seas on a pilgrimage to Rome. On 20 June 1351 his outlawry was 
annulled, and he was fully restored 8 February 1351/2.

He married, 1stly, about 1313, Milicent, daughter of Maurice (DE BERKELEY), LORD 
BERKELEY. She was living 1322. He married 2ndly, before 26 February 1330/1, 
Agnes, widow of Sir John DE NERFORD (died s.p., 1329), and relict of Sir John 
D'ARGENTINE (died 1318; see ARGENTINE), and daughter of William DE 
BEREFORD, of Burton, co. Leicester, Chief justice of the Common Pleas, by Margaret, 
daughter of Hugh DE PLESCY, which Agnes in 1354 was coheir of her brother 
Edmund. He died 16 February 1363/4, and was buried at Lytchett Mautravers. His 
widow, who had no issue by him, was assigned her dower in April 1364. She died 18 
July 13 75, and was buried in the Greyfriars, London. [Complete Peerage VIII:581-5, 
(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Parents
MALTRAVERS John V (BEF 1266 - AFT 26 Jan 1341)
DE GORGES Eleanor (ABT 1262 - AFT 1314)

Siblings
MALTRAVERS John VI (ABT 1290 - 16 Feb 1364)

Marriage To DE BERKELEY Milicent (Ela) (ABT 1300 - AFT 1322)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BERKELEY Maurice "the Magnanimous" (Apr 1271 - 31 May 1326)
LA ZOUCHE Eve (1273 - 5 Dec 1314)

Children by DE BERKELEY Milicent (Ela) ABT 1300 - AFT 1322
MALTRAVERS John VII (ABT 1317 - 22 Jan 1349)

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