Sir John Mauduit, Knight

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Name: John MAUDUIT , of Somerford, Sir 1 2 Sex: M Birth: ABT 1281 in Fonthill Giffard, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England 2 Death: 21 AUG 1347 in Somerford Mauduit, Wiltshire, England 2

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Observations--The founder of the family of Mauduit of Somerford Mauduit is conjectured to have been Robert, younger son of Robert Mauduit of Warminster, by Agnes, daughter and heir of Robert de la Mare. The family held Somerford of Malmesbury Abbey, and appear to have acquired Fonthill Giffard by marriage with a coheiress of the lands of Robert Giffard, after the resignation of the inheritance by Andrew Giffard. In 1212 Robert Mauduit held Broughton Pogys, &c., Oxon, in right of his wife Beatrice, daughter and coheir of Ralph Murdac III, by his wife, Eve de Grey, heiress of Stanlake, &c. If the above suggested descent is correct, it was with his elder brother Thomas Maduit of Warminster that this Robert was engaged in holding Bridgnorth Castle for the King in 1226. His widow Beatrice (as Beatrice de Murdac) was holding Somerford in 1242-3, and still living 1250, when a Robert Murdac held part of Broughton of her.
According to a pedigree compiled from notes made by Glover from Hastings deeds, Robert Mauduit, perhaps a son of the abovenamed Robert Mauduit of Somerford, had two sons, John and Robert, who are possibly the John and Robert, uncle and father respectively of the John named below (d. 1347). Of these brothers we know that, with William Mauduit, they were in 1253 crossing over to Gascony with the King. John had a grant of free warren in Somerford, 1254. Sir John held Stanlake in 1279; Sir Robert then held of him Black Bourton, with which place he was already connected in 1258. He died in 1288, holding Fonthill, Wilts, of the said Sir John, leaving John (of the text below), his son and heir, aged 7. Sir John granted to Dame Alice Mauduit, widow of his said brother Sir Robert, and to Sir Alan de Crawele and James de Crawele his son, the custody of his nephew John and the wardship of his lands, and provided for marriage portions of Alice and Joan, daughters of Robert. His seal attached to this deed bears 3 bends wavy within cinquefoils in orle. In 1297 Sir John was returned as liable for service overseas in respect of lands in Oxon valued at over 20 pounds a year, and was summoned in 1301 for service against the Scots. According to a story related of his old age, when he had become blind, he was persuaded by a monk of Malmesbury to give his manor of Somerford to that house, but Sir Robert Pugeys (then or afterwards father-in-law of his nephew John) protested it would be to the injury of his heirs, and the scheme was dropped. He died shortly before 5 Dec 1302, when the writs to the escheators issued, his heir being his said nephew John.
JOHN MAUDUIT, of Somerford Mauduit, Wilts, and Broughton, Oxon, &c., son of Robert Mauduit, was aged 7 at his father's death in 1288 and 21 and more at the death of his uncle John Mauduit, whose heir he was, in 1302. He was knighted on Whit Sunday (22 May) 1306, with Prince of Wales and a number of others; and was present at the tournament at Stepney in 1309. From June to Dec. 1311 he, or another of the same name, was Sheriff of Wilts. In 1313 he was in the train of Hugh le Despenser the elder, going beyond seas with the King. In the following year, after Bannockburn, he was summoned for service against the Scots, and again in 1315. He had a pardon in 1318 for a homicide at the tournament at Cirencester, at the instance of the Earl of Pembroke. He took an active part in the Earl of Hereford's confederacy against the Despensers in 1321, receiving a pardon in Aug. of that year. An order for his arrest and imprisonment in Feb 1322 seems to have been ineffectual, for he was taken prisoner at Boroughbridge as a partisan of the Earl of Lancaster in March, and discharged in July with a fine of 1,000 marks. In 1324 he was one of the knights of Wilts whom the sheriff returned as summoned to the Great Council at Westminster, to treat and advise; and in 1325 and 1326 was summoned for service in Guienne, such service being a condition of his pardon; and in 1329 was under orders to accompany the King beyond seas. From 1326 onwards he served as commissioner of array, oyer and terminer, &c.; in 1338, when sheriff, was collector of the King's wool in the county, and in 1342-3 excheator in Wilts. On 18 Aug. 1337 he was summoned to a Colloquium, and on 12 Sep 1342 to a Council, which was not a Parliament, although the sheriffs were ordered to send the knights of the shires and burgesses.
He m. 1stly, about 1307, Margaret, daughter and afterwards coheir of Sir Robert Pugeys, of Stoke, Bucks (d. 1330); by her he had a daughter Gilles, aged 22 in 1330, who, in or before 1325, m. John de Moleyns, whose descendants became heirs fo this branch of the family of Mauduit. He m. 2ndly, in or before 1328, Agnes, who is described as sister of both Robert de Walkington and of William de Rother, the son of which William was found to be her heir in 1383. He d. 21 Aug 1347. His widow, who had a life interest in a large part of the estates, m. 2ndly, Sir Thomas de Bradeston [Lord Bradeston], who d. 1360, by whom she had issue. She d. 31 Aug 1369, when William de Moleyns, son of the abovesaid John and Gilles, was found heir of the Mauduit property. [Complete Peerage VIII:551-3]
Father: Robert MAUDUIT , of Black Bourton & Stanlake, Sir b: BEF 1236 in Bourton Inge Manor, Black Bourton, Witney, Oxfordshire, England Mother: Alice b: ABT 1258

Marriage 1 Margaret PUGEYS , Heiress of Stoke Poges b: ABT 1284 in Stoke Poges, Eton, Buckinghamshire, England

   Married: ABT 1307 in 1st wife 2

Children

   Has Children Gilles (Egidia) MAUDUIT , Heiress of Stoke Poges b: ABT 1308 in Stoke Poges, Eton, Buckinghamshire, England

Marriage 2 Agnes sister of William de ROTHER b: ABT 1305

   Married: BEF 1328 in 1st husband 2nd wife 2

Children

   Has No Children John MAUDUIT , of Somerford b: ABT 1332 in Somerford Mauduit, Wiltshire, England

Has No Children Piers (Peter) MAUDUIT , of Somerford, Sir b: ABT 1336 in Somerford Mauduit, Wiltshire, England
Sources:

   Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000

   Page: IX:39

   Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000

   Page: VIII:551-3