Sir John Melton of Aston & Kilham, de jure 7th Lord Lucy

Biography

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Sir John Melton of Aston and Kilham, de jure 7th Lord Lucy, was born about 1377 (age 22 in 1399).[1][2]

He was the son and heir of Sir William de Melton and his wife Elizabeth, possibly Everingham.

Before 1415 he married Margaret Clifford, daughter of Sir Roger de Clifford of Appleby, 5th Lord Clifford, and his wife Maud de Beauchamp.[3]

They had two sons (Sir John, and Anthony) and three daughters (Thomasin[4], wife of Henry Pierrepont Esq, Margaret, wife of John Markenfield Esq, and _____, wife of _____ Hastings).[5]

He is probably the Sir John Melton of Aston, Yorkshire, who together with SIr Geoffrey Fitzhugh of Ravensworth, Yorkshire, held land in Whitwill, Derbyshire, in 1431.[6]

He died on 24 May 1455.[citation needed] He left a will dated 1 April 1455, in which he is described as "Johannes Melton miles, senior" (John Melton, knight, the elder). He asked to be buried in the parish of Aston and appointed his sons John and Anthony as his executors. He left a bequest to his nephew, Thomas Everingham of Newhall. His will was proved at York on 8 September 1455.[7] An inquisition post mortem was held in 33 Henry VI (1454/5).[2][8]

Melton drew up his will in early January 1398 ‘michi videns mortem iminere et finem vitae appropinquare’. He made provision for a fairly elaborate funeral at the parish church of All Saints, Aston, and died on 7 Mar. following. His chief beneficiary was his sister, Katherine, who not only received 40 marks in cash but also inherited his estates in Cotness and Whistan. Other legacies together accounted for over £37, while the rest of his goods and chattels were consigned to a group of trustees, including the influential Lancastrian retainer, Robert Waterton. Just five days after Sir William’s death, the wardship of his estates was committed to Thomas Stanley, keeper of the rolls in Chancery, although subsequent inquisitions post mortem found that his son and heir, John, was actually of age, and thus able to take seisin at once. The death without issue in December 1398 of Sir William’s cousin, Maud (whose second husband was Henry, earl of Northumberland), meant that John inherited his great-grandfather’s title of Lord Lucy, together with an annual fee of £50 assigned by the Crown in 1344 for the upkeep of the title. Although the bulk of the Lucy estates remained with the Percys, John had been promised the manor of Radstone in Northamptonshire, which finally reverted to him six years later. John Melton died in 1455, leaving a son and heir of the same name who, like his grandfather before him, represented Yorkshire in two Parliaments.

This was taken from http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/me...

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BARONY OF CLIFFORD VII.7. JOHN MELTON, Knight, de jure Lord Lucy, son and heir, was aged 22 and more at his father"s death. In 1401 he obtained, as kinsman and heir of Maud, sister and heir of Anthony, son and heir of Thomas de Lucy, confirmation of letters patent of 20 March 1344 granting to the said Thomas and his heirs £50 yearly at the Exchequer. He is said to have married Margaret, daughter of Roger (CLIFFORD), LORD CLIFFORD. He died 24 May 1455. Complete Peerage, 8:255

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Margaret Melton probably the daughter of Sir John Melton of Aston (d. 1474). She married Sir Nicholas Longford in 1472. Her aunt, Thomasia, was the wife of Sir Henry Pierrepont who was murdered in 1457, a kinsman of Nicholas. Nicholas died without issue in 1481.

Source: Bevan, R. (2005). A study of a Medieval knightly family: The Longfords of Derbyshire, Part 2," Foundations, pp 353-4, 368. Fmg.ac. < PDF >

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