Peter de la Mare
Sir Peter de la Mare (b~1294;died ca. 1387) was an English politician and Speaker of the House of Commons during the Good Parliament of 1376.
Family: He was the son of Reginald/Reynold de la Mare,[1] (d bef 1358) of Little Hereford, Herefordshire; and Yatton, Somerset; by Margery. He had a younger brother Malcolm de la Mare[2] who married Alice de Cokesay (d.s.p. 1400) widow of John Romsay of Kidderminster.[3] He had a sister Joanna/Joan de la Mare (b ~1324) who married Simon de Brockbury (b 1324); their daughter Margaret Brockbury (b 1355) married William Seymour (b 1348) (son of Roger Seymour, knight, by Cecily Beauchamp of Hache Beauchamp, Somerset, the eldest and most richly dowered of three heiresses of the last Lord Beauchamp of Hache);[4][5] married secondly Hugh Cheyne. Their son Roger Seymour (b 1366 d 1420); married Maud Esturmy (b ~1383 d bef 1427)(daughter of William Esturmy, Speaker, of Chadham, Wilts., Lord of Wolfhall, guardians of the Forest of Savernake) by Joan). For at his death, Yatton was inherited by his great-nephew, Roger Seymour, the grandson of Sir Peter's sister Joanna, who married Simon de Brockbury.[6]
Before becoming Speaker, Mare worked as a toll collector, was Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1374, and served as a steward to Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March. It may have been his connection with Mortimer which led to his election to Parliament.
Peter de la Mare attended the Good Parliament in 1376 as a knight of the shire for Herefordshire. After being elected as Speaker, he served as a spokesman for the House of Commons in the House of Lords during the indictment of various figures close to King Edward III, including the king's mistress Alice Perrers, who was accused of having gained an undue degree of influence over the king. However, the political influence of the Good Parliament was brief. In November 1376, Peter de la Mare was imprisoned in Nottingham Castle by John of Gaunt. Despite pleas for his release, the Bad Parliament of 1377 refused to pardon him. However, he regained his freedom in June 1377, following the death of Edward III. Following his release, Mare was pardoned and compensated by King Richard II. He was re-elected as Speaker of the Commons in the Parliament of October 1377.
Peter de la Mare served in several more Parliaments during the 1380s. The last recorded mention of him was as a feoffee to Richard Burley in 1387.
References
- ↑ Oxford DNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=7432&back=
- ↑ Oxford DNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=7432&back=
- ↑ The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
- ↑ Many Mini Biographies G23: 7605248 http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2011/08/g23-7605248.html
- ↑ http://www.1066.co.nz/library/battle_abbey_roll3/subchap94.htm
- ↑ Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol 14 by Edward Maunde Thompson http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/De_la_Mare,_Peter_%28DNB00%29
- Holmes, George (1975). The Good Parliament. Oxford, Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-822446-X.
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Presiding Officer of the House of Commons 1376 |
Succeeded by James Pickering |
| Preceded by Thomas Hungerford |
Speaker of the House of Commons 1377 |
Succeeded by Sir Thomas Hungerford |
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