John de Ludlowe, of Chipping Campden

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• Wool merchant.
• Property owned in Shrewsbury.
• Property owned in Lincolnshire.
• 30 May 1274, Westminster. Licence to trade in wool and other goods,
• 1281 "Henry III. he was signed with the cross, together with Prince Edward, to go to the Holy Land, where he went accordingly. He married Margerie, daughter of Gilbert de Say, by whom he obtained the manor and castle of Weobley, in Herefordshire, and a part of Ludlow. He died in 1274, and the feoffee of Stokesay at that time was Reginald de Gray ; but it does not appear how he became so, and in 1281 he sold the manor and lands to John de Ludlowe. A rent of eight shillings per annum is reserved to John and Matilda de Gray, his wife, in lieu of all services, reliefs, aids, etc. ; and for this John de Ludlowe was to give a hen sparrow-hawk. "
• 1282 Debts to him acknowledged
• 1286 Owned Moiety of Manor in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. The moiety was received in part payment of a debt of 4000 pounds to his brother, Laurence, by Sir John le Straunge (Strange) http://members.shaw.ca/panthers5/ChippingManor.html
• 1290 John de Ludlow was Chancellor of the University of Oxford, resigning in the same year. wiki
• 1294 Aldeburgh, Sufffolk died at Sea, Nicholas de Ludlow's second son, John, was also a wool merchant and he set up a subsidiary of the family business in Chipping Campden, Glos. Like his brother, Laurence, John was also involved in the wool trade in Europe. The brothers were hugely successful but both were drowned off the coast of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in 1294, when the King's wool fleet - heading for Bruges and commanded by Laurence de Ludlow - was hit by a great storm in which many ships and their crews were lost. Laurence de Ludlow's body was recovered and was buried at Ludlow. John also qualified for knighthood.

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Edward I and the Governance of England, 1272-1307