Sir John de Moleyns, Knight

• Sir John de Moleyns, Treasurer of the King's Chamber1,2
• M, #16277, d. between 10 March 1359 and 1360
• Father Vincent de Moleyns
• Mother Isabella
• Sir John de Moleyns, Treasurer of the King's Chamber married Gille (Egidia) Mauduit, daughter of Sir John de Mauduit and Margaret Pugeys, in 1325.2 Sir John de Moleyns, Treasurer of the King's Chamber died between 10 March 1359 and 1360.
• Family Gille (Egidia) Mauduit d. bt 21 Jan 1366 - 1367
• Children
  • Sir William de Moleyns+2 d. 14 Feb 1381
  • Sir John de Moleyns3 d. Oct 1342
• Citations
• [S4603] Unknown author, Wallop Family, p. 551.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 107.
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XI, p. 39.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p542.htm#i... _________________
• John de Moleyns1
• M, #103028
• Last Edited=9 Feb 2004
• Child of John de Moleyns
  • Sir John de Moleyns1
• Citations
• [S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 65. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10303.htm#i103028 _________________
• Michael de Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings, Knt. (c.1318 – 7 March 1369),[1] of Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, was an English nobleman and soldier. He was present at the Battle of Crécy.
• .... etc.
• Poynings married, before 1348, Joan Ruxley (d. 11 May 1369), widow of John de Moleyns, son and heir apparent of John, Baron Moleyns,[2][1] and daughter of Sir Richard Rokesley.[citation needed] They were buried together[citation needed] in the parish church at Poynings, Sussex. He was succeeded by his son Thomas de Poynings, 2nd Baron Poynings.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_de_Poynings,_1st_Baron_Poynings _________________
• Margery Poynings
• (c.1310-1349)
• 'Lady De La Beche of Aldworth'
• Born: circa 1310
• Died: 1349
• Margery was the daughter of Michael, Lord De Poynings. She was first married to Edmund Bacon, of Essex, who was descended from Sir John Bacon of Ewelme (Oxfordshire). She held the Manor of Hatfield Peverall, which Edward II had granted to Edmund Bacon in fee in 1310, for the term of her life, 'partly of the King and partly of the Earl of Hereford by homage, and the third part of a knight's fee and two pairs of gilt spurs of twelve pence price.' And she also held Cressing Hall or Cressinges, Essex.
• By her first husband, Margery had one daughter, Margery Bacon, born 1337, who married, in 1352, William De Molynes, son of Sir John De Molynes, and she had also a step-daughter .... etc.
• From: http://www.britannia.com/bios/ladies/mpoynings.html ______________________

The lordship of Heytesbury passed to the Hungerfords through the family of Molyns. John de Molyns of Stoke Poges was a medieval robber baron who murdered his wife's cousin and that man's only son to inherit his lands. He was a member of the Despencer party during the end of the reign of Edward II and rose to power and influence in court, becoming baron of Stoke Poges and Treasurer of the Chamber to Edward III. He was imprisoned for failure to remit money to the king at the siege of Tournay [Chron. St. Thomas More] but was restored to royal favour in 1347. In 1336/7 he had a grant of free warren and licence to impark woods at Ilmer, Buckinghamshire which had been in the king's hands since 1340 and was restored to Molyns in 1346.

John Molyns also held Aston Bernard by service of being marshal of the king's hawks and falcons and had free warren in his demesne lands of Halverthing and Wandsworth [Cart. 8 Edw. III n. 3, Dugdale Baronage II 135, Magna Brit] which were seized by Edward III but later restored.

The manor of Ash, Surrey was restored to John de Molyns in 20 Edward III (1347) with liberty to impark the woods of West Grove and Goddard Grove [Claus 20 Edward III p.2. m.26] as well as the manor of Henley (24th August 1338). In 23 Edward III (1350) Henry de Stoghton released the rights of Ash, Surrey to John de Molyns. Egidia, wife of John de Molyns and William, son of John and the heirs of John were to have rights there [Claus Edward III p.2. m.9].

In 23rd Edward III, William de Molyns, son of John, released rights to the king. John de Molyns was benefactor to St. Mary Overy, Southwark. In 1333 he had licence to assign to the church of Southwark, 25 acres in Stoke Poges in exchange for another 25 acres in the same place [14 Cal. Feb. 9 Edw III 1336]. Vigils, masses etc were to be said for Egidia, his wife and his family. Joan, widow of Sir John Molyns II (d. 16.5.1370) married Michael, Lord Poynings.

In 1441 the lordship of Heytesbury and lands passed by the marriage of Eleanor, daughter of William Molyns (John's great grandson) to Robert Hungerford (19 Henry V). Lord William Molyns was executed in 1463 and Eleanor, his daughter was his sole heiress.

John de Molyns, although described as the king's yeoman, was Treasurer to Edward III and was eventually knighted. His later career was an almost textbook 'robber baron'.

Moleyns [Molyns, Molines], Sir John (d. 1360), administrator and criminal, was the son of Vincent Moleyns and his wife, Isabella; he came from Hampshire, where his father had stood surety for a knight of the shire returned to parliament in 1301.

His recorded career began in the royal household, as an adherent of the Despensers. In the autumn of 1325 he accompanied Prince Edward to France, and delivered a letter to the bishop of Winchester there.

He married Egidia Mauduit, daughter of Sir John Mauduit and granddaughter of Robert Poges, who claimed a share of the manor of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. Egidia and her husband profited from the murder of Peter Poges, lord of the manor, and his heir in the autumn of 1326, and Moleyns was later indicted of this crime but acquitted, though by a jury partly selected by himself.

Stoke Poges became the centre of his estates which extended over thirty-one manors and tenements at the time of their confiscation in December 1340. (Röhrkasten)

Egidia Mauduit, daughter of Sir John Mauduit and granddaughter of Robert Poges, who claimed a share of the manor of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire.

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