Laurence de Ludlowe, of Stokesay & Hodnet

http://www.ludlowfamilies.org/index_files/LUDLOW%20name.pdf

http://www.ludlowfamilytree.org/shrewsbury/shrewsburybook.htm

• Salop. — Laurence de Lodelowe, Kt., and Hawise his wife sued John de Sibbeton and Margaret his wife for common of pasture in Sibbeton, which Roger de Sibbeton, Kt., had granted to his ancestor Laurence, son of Nicholas de Lodelowe, and to his tenants of Stokesay.
• Owner of Stokesay Castle, Salop.
• Property owned in Hodnet.
• Wool merchant.
• Steward of the king's Castle of Montgomery in Montgomeryshire, Wales.
• 1322 Scotland served in the military with Edward II
• 1324 summoned to the Great Council of Westminster
• 1328 Knight of Shire for Co. Salop (old name for Shropshire)
• 1341 supervisor of the King's wool in Salop and Rutland
• 1348 Outlawed and pardoned
• 1350 Founded the Carmelite (White) Friars in Ludlow
• 1353 Murdered. John de Halghtone and others accused of the murder of Sir Laurence de Ludlow http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=123352303