♂John Marmion

John Marmion^W (died before 7 May 1322) was an English landholder of Wintringham in Lincolnshire and Tanfield in Yorkshire whose manors, by the time of his death, lay in five counties, from Yorkshire to Sussex. He was the twentieth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) by two separate lines of descent, both through his son John Marmion (born before 1292).

Career

He is said to have been the son and heir of William Marmion of Wintringham and his wife Lora, a daughter of Roese de Dover of Loddington in Northamptonshire. In June 1294 he was reportedly summoned, with about sixty others, to attend the King wherever he might be, and he was summoned again in January 1297. He is said to have served in the Scottish war^W of 1310. From 26 July 1313, by the same account, he was summoned to Parliament by writ^W as a baron, Lord Marmion^W, the last time on 14 March 1322.

Death and inheritance

He died within weeks of that last summons. On 7 May 1322 the King ordered inquiries into the lands he had held, and juries were sworn in Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Sussex, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. The inheritance took in Tanfield, Wath and Eskelby in Yorkshire, Wintringham and Wolyngham in Lincolnshire, Berwick and Wyngeton in Sussex, Luddington in Northamptonshire and Quinton in Gloucestershire. About ten years before, he had given Quinton to his son John and John’s wife Elizabeth and their heirs. The juries found that “John his son, aged 30 and more, is his next heir”.

Lines of descent

Both lines run through his son John, John’s daughter Avice Marmion and her daughter Maud Grey (died 1394). One comes down through Thomas Dudley^W (1576–1653) to Nathaniel Dudley (1763–1844); the other reaches Nathaniel’s wife, Anna Smith (1764–1825). The two lines meet again in their daughter Sarah Dudley (1795–1839).

Notes

The inquisitions of 1322

The writ to inquire into his lands is dated 7 May 15 Edward II (1322). The Yorkshire inquest, taken on the Friday after the feast of St John the Baptist, covered “Tanfeld … Wath, Langeton and Wirton … Eskelby” and found “John his son, aged 30 and more, is his next heir” (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 6, no. 294). The inquests in the other counties, under the name “John Marmyon alias le Marmion”, found the same heir and listed Berewyk and Wyngeton in Sussex, Wyntryngham and Wolyngham in Lincolnshire and Ludington in Northamptonshire; in Gloucestershire “he gave the manor of Quenton to John his son and Elizabeth his wife and their heirs”, ten years before (vol. 6, no. 350).

Parentage and career

His parentage, the summonses of 8 June 1294 (22 Edward I) and 26 January 1296/7, the Scottish service of 1310 and the writs of summons to Parliament from 26 July 1313 (7 Edward II) to 14 March 1321/2 (15 Edward II) all come from the first edition of the Complete Peerage (vol. 5, 1893, p. 258), which styles him “of Witringham, co. Lincoln and of the Hermitage, in West Tanfield, co. York” and counts him the first holder of the barony. His parents’ names rest on that work alone.

Date of death

The Complete Peerage (1st ed., vol. 5, p. 258) dates his death to 1322-23 (16 Edward II). The writ of 7 May 1322 shows he was dead by that day.