John of Monmouth (died 1257)

John of Monmouth[1] (died 1257) was a feudal lord in the Welsh Marches.

Life

He was the son of John of Monmouth and his second wife Agnes, daughter of Walter de Muscegros.[2]

Tumulus near Penrhos, Monmouthshire, possible site of a short-lived disputed castle.

Penrhos Castle was the focus of a sharp dispute the younger John of Monmouth had with William III de Cantilupe.[3] There are official records showing that John was appointed custos of the castle in 1251, and William was pardoned the following year for demolishing it.[4] On the basis of documentary evidence, the castle and the dispute it created lasted from 1248 to 1253.[5]

Family and legacy

John of Monmouth died, according to the Victoria County History of Dorset, without issue.[2] He left Monmouth Castle to Prince Edward.[6] His heirs were Albretha de Boterell and Joan de Nevil, an aunt on his mother's side, and a first cousin.[2][7] A recent scholarly source identifies another John of Monmouth, later hanged for murder, to whom this John of Monmouth left property, as a half-brother.[8] Where it is stated that John of Monmouth married a daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon[9] this might therefore have been a son John of his father by his second marriage.

Notes

  1. ↑ John de Monmouth, John de Munemuth, John de Monumue.
  2. 1 2 3 William Henry Page, The Victoria History of the County of Dorset vol. 3 (1908), p. 58; archive.org.
  3. ↑ CastleFacts, Penrhos Castle.
  4. ↑ http://archive.org/stream/archaeologiacam04assogoog#page/n32/mode/2up
  5. ↑ http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1337678/llgc-id:1340124/llgc-id:1340132/getText
  6. ↑ Davies, R. R. "Monmouth, John of". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18959. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=108015
  8. ↑ D. A. Crowley (editor), A. P. Baggs, Jane Freeman and Janet H. Stevenson (1995). "Parishes: Steeple Langford". A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 15: Amesbury hundred, Branch and Dole hundred. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  9. ↑ Alfred Theophilus Lee, The History of the Town and Parish of Tetbury (1857), p. 209;archive.org.
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