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Birth:          AFT 15 Jun 1271 Styrrup with Oldcotes, Nottinghamshire, England
Death:          30 May 1347 Knaith, Lincolnshire, England
Burial:         Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, England

Notes
b abt 1280/5
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I09048
John Darcy, 1st Lord (Baron) Darcy, so created by writ of summons to Parliament 27 
Jan 1331/2, of Knaith, Kexby, and Upton, Lincolnshire; outlawed for felony 1306 but 
pardoned 19 May 1307; Constable of Norham Castle 1317, Sheriff of Derbys and Notts 
1319-22, Lancs 1323 and Yorks 1327-8, MP Notts 1320, Justiciar of Ireland 1323-27, 
1328-31, 1332-7 (for life, 1340 but resigned 1344), Steward of King's Household 1337
-40, Chamberlain 1341-46, Constable of Nottingham Castle 1344 and Tower of London 
1346 (both for life), fought Battle of Crecy 1346. [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF DARCY (I) 1332

1. SIR JOHN DARCY, styled le neveu and le cosyn, and (long afterwards) le piere, of 
Knaith, Kexby, and Upton, co. Lincoln, son and heir of Sir Roger DARCY, of Oldcotes 
and Styrrup, Notts (who died before 12 May 1284), by Isabel, daughter of Sir William 
D'ATON, of West Ayton co. York (a), which Roger was a younger brother of Sir 
Norman Darcy of Nocton. He was under age, 15 June 1292. Was outlawed for felony 
in or before 1306, and lost hls lands in Oldcotes, &c. Pardoned, 19 May 1307, at the 
instance of Aymer de Valence, in whose retinue he was in 1313, 1320, and 1321, and 
again in the expedition to Scotland in 1322. He was appointed Constable of Norham 
Castle, 20 January 1316/7. Sheriff of cos. Notts and Derby, 1319-22. Knight of the 
Shire for co. Notts, 1230. Sheriff of co. Lancaster, February 1322/3 to July 1323, and 
was on the King's service against the Scots, 24 February 1322/3 to 4 April 1323. A 
banneret, 12 August 1323. Justiciar of Ireland, 18 November 1323 to 12 March 
1326/7. Sheriff of co. York, 1327-28. Justiclar of Ireland, 21 August 1328 to 27 
February 1330/1. With Guillaume de Seintz (or Sans), Seigneur de Pommiers, he was 
commissioned to treat with the nobles of Aquitaine, 27 April 1330. Appointed a special 
envoy to the King of France concerningi the marriage of Prince Edward, 15 July 1331. 
He was summoned for MiIitary Service, 20 September 1322 and 2 October 1322, by 
writs directed Johanni Darcy le neveu, to a Council, 25 February 1341/2, and to 
Parliament 27 January 1331/2 to 2 January 1333/4, by writs directed Johanni Darcy le 
cosyn, whereby he is held to have become ]LORD DARCY. Justiciar of Ireland, 30 
September 1332 to 28 July 1337. Thence he took an army to Scotland in 1335 (after 
15 August), and wasted Arran and Bute. Steward of the King's Household from March 
1336/7 to December 1340. Appointed to treat with the King of France, the Emperor, 
the Count of Flanders &c, 3 October and with the King of Scots, 7 October 1337. A 
proxy to sign the treaty with the Flemings, 10 June 1338. Appointed justiciar of Ireland 
for life 3 March 1339/40; as the King could not dispense with his continual 
attendance a deputy was appointed, 16 March 1340/1: he resigned the office, 10 
February 1343/4, Chamberlain to the King from 1341 to September 1346 or later. He 
accompanied the Earl of Northampton in his expexpedition to Brittany in August 1342. 
Appointed Constable of Nottingham Castle, 2 March 1343/4, and of the Tower of 
London, 12 March 1345/6, both for life. He was at the battle of Crecy, and was one of 
those sent from before Calais, 8 September 1346, to announce the victory in 
Parliament.

He married, 1stly, Emmeline, daughter and heir of Walter HERON, of Silkstone, co. 
York (son and heir apparent of Sir William HERON, of Hadstone, Northumberland, and 
Notton, co. York), by Alice, daughter of Sir Nilcholas DE HASTINGES, of Allerston, 
co. York, and Gissing, Norfolk (d). She was aged 7 1/2 years in May 1297. He 
married, 2ndly, 3 July 1329, at Maynooth, co. Kildare, Joan, widow of Thomas 
(FITZJOHN), EARL OF KILDARE [IRL]: (who died 5 April 1328, at Maynooth, being 
then justiclar), and 4th daughter of Richard (DE BURGH), EARL OF ULSTER [IRL], by 
Margaret, his wife. He died 30 May 1347, on which day he had received a pardon for 
all homicides, felonies, robberies, &c., for all oppressions by colour of any office he 
had held, for all trespasses of vert and venison, and of any consequent outlawries, 
and for all arrears and debts. His widow died 23 April 1359, and was buried, with her 
1st husband, in the Church of the Friars Minors at Kildare. [Complete Peerage IV;54-8, 
XIV:234, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(a) Letters of receipt dated xv kal. Julii 14 Edw. II, by the proxy "domini Johannis filii 
domini Rogeri Darcy militis, "in execution of the will of the Lady Isabel, mother of the 
said John. In 17 Edw. II (writ 26 Oct 1323) John son of Roger Darcy claimed 3 
messuages, &c., in Swyndene, co. York, "que Gilbertus de Aton 'dedit Isabelle de 
Aton'.... Gilbert was brother of Isabel and son and heir of William d'Aton; he d.s.p. 
before 1285.

(d) Walter Heron was son of William by his 1st wife, Christian (m. in or before 1270), 
daughter and heir of Sir Roger de Notton. Alice was married to Walter at Allerston, 27 
Oct 1284; her mother was named Emmeline. Genealogists have confused the two 
Emmelines. On 2 Mar 1347/8 John Darcy of Knaith released to William Heroun kt. and 
Isabel hsi wife, and to Margery late the wife of Roger Heroun kt., all his right and 
claim in the manor of Ford, Northumberland.

Parents
DARCY Roger (ABT 1250 - BEF 12 May 1284)
D'ATON Isabel (ABT 1255 - BEF 15 Jul 1320)

Siblings
DARCY John "le Neveu" (AFT 15 Jun 1271 - 30 May 1347)

Marriage To HERON Emmeline (ABT Oct 1289 - BEF 1329)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
HERON Walter (ABT 1270 - )
DE HASTINGS Alice (ABT 1270 - )

Children by HERON Emmeline ABT Oct 1289 - BEF 1329
DARCY John "de Knayth" (1317 - 5 Mar 1356)

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