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Birth:          BEF 1266 Woolcombe Matravers, Dorsetshire, England
Death:          AFT 26 Jan 1341 Lytchett Matravers, Dorsetshire, England
Burial:         Lytchett Mautravers, Dorsetshire, England

Notes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Maltravers,_2nd_Baroness_Maltravers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maltravers,_1st_Baron_Maltravers

John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers (1290?–1365) was an English nobleman and 
soldier.[1]
Early life[edit]

He was son of Sir John Maltravers (1266–1343?) of Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, born 
by his first wife Alianor, about 1290. He was knighted, as was his father, with Edward, 
Prince of Wales, on 12 May 1306. He is said to have been taken prisoner at the battle 
of Bannockburn in 1314.[2]

On 20 October 1318 Maltravers was chosen knight of the shire for Dorset. He seems 
to have sided with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster against the king Edward II, and was in 
his early life a close associate of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. In September 
1321 he received pardon for felonies committed in pursuit of the Despensers, but in 
the following December is described as the king's enemy. In the spring of 1322 he was 
in arms against the king, and attacked and burnt the town of Bridgnorth. He was 
present at the battle of Boroughbridge on 16 March, and after the execution of Earl 
Thomas went overseas.[2]

Custodian of Edward II[edit]

Maltravers would appear to have come back with Mortimer and Isabella of France in 
October 1326, receiving restitution of his lands in 1327, with a grant out of the lands 
of Hugh Despenser. On 3 April he was appointed one of the keepers of the deposed 
king Edward II, the other being his brother-in-law Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron 
Berkeley. Adam Murimuth says that Edward was killed by order of Maltravers and 
Thomas Gourney, but later scholars doubt this. Maltravers and Berkeley remained in 
charge of the body until its burial at Gloucester on 21 October.[2]

During the next few years Maltravers was employed on commissions of oyer and 
terminer. In that of February 1329, with Oliver de Ingham and others, he was 
appointed to try those who had supported Henry, Earl of Lancaster, in his intended 
rising at Bedford. He was also on several occasions a justice in eyre for the forests, 
and was in 1329 made keeper of the forests south of Trent. On 4 April 1329 the 
pardon granted to him two years earlier was confirmed, in consideration of his services 
to Isabella and the king at home and abroad. In May he accompanied the young king 
Edward III to France; and the next year was steward of the royal household.[2]

Exile[edit]

Maltravers was actively concerned in the death of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of 
Kent, in March 1330, and was on the commission appointed to track down his 
adherents. On 5 June 1330 he was summoned to parliament as Baron Maltravers; he 
was described as a baron by November 1329. On 24 September he was appointed 
constable of Corfe Castle, but on the fall of Mortimer shortly afterwards, Maltravers, 
like the other supporters of Isabella, was disgraced. In the parliament held in 
November he was condemned to death as a traitor on account of his share in the 
death of the Earl of Kent. On 3 December orders were given for his arrest, to prevent 
his going abroad, but he managed to escape to Germany.[2]

In Flanders Maltravers built up a fortune; but, during the troubles after the death of 
Jacob van Artevelde, he lost it. When Edward III came to Flanders in July 1345, 
Maltravers met him at the Swyn estuary, and petitioned for leave to return to England, 
pleading that he had been condemned unheard. In consideration of services he had 
done the king in Flanders, he was granted the royal protection on 5 August, and 
allowed to return to England.[2]

Later life[edit]

The confirmation of Maltravers's pardon was delayed because in 1346 he was on 
business abroad, but the protection was renewed at the end of 1347 . In June 1348 
he was sent to Ghent, Bruges, and Ypres. Final restitution of his honour and lands was 
made on 8 February 1352. He was governor of the Channel Islands in 1351. He re-
founded in 1351 the hospital of Bowes at St. Peter's Port in Guernsey. Maltravers died 
on 16 February 1365, and was buried at Lytchett.[2]

Family[edit]

Maltravers married[2]
1.Ela or Eva, daughter of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley, and sister of 
Thomas de Berkeley, the keeper of Edward II, and
2.Agnes, daughter of Sir William Bereford.

Agnes had married Sir John de Argentine (d. 1318) and Sir John de Nerford (d. 1329). 
She died after 1374, and was buried at Greyfriars, London. By his first wife he had a 
son John, who died 13 October 1350 (1360 according to Nicolas), leaving by his wife 
Wensliana a son Henry and two daughters, Joan and Eleanor. Henry Maltravers died 
before his grandfather, at whose death the barony fell into abeyance, between his 
granddaughters, Joan, who was twice married but left no children, and Eleanor, who 
married John Fitzalan, second son of Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel.

John Fitzalan, her grandson, succeeded as sixth earl of Arundel in 1415, and Thomas, 
son and heir of William, ninth earl, sat in parliament during his father's life, from 1471 
to 1488, as Baron Maltravers. Mary, daughter of the twelfth earl, carried the title to 
Philip Howard, fourth duke of Norfolk. In 1628 the barony of Maltravers was by act of 
parliament annexed to the earldom of Arundel, and the title is consequently still held 
by the Duke of Norfolk.[2]

In fiction[edit]

Maltravers is a supporting character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a 
series of French historical novels by Maurice Druon. He was portrayed by André 
Mathis in the 1972 French miniseries adaptation of the series, and by Reus Alexandru 
in the 2005 adaptation.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I12444
Sir John Maltravers & wife Eleanor, daughter of Sir Ralph de Gorges of Litton and 
Wraxall. [Ancestral Roots]

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JOHN MAUTRAVERS, son and heir, was returned as aged 30 and more at his father's 
death. In April 1286, as John, son of John Mautravers, he had protection for 3 years, 
staying in England; and in 1289, with his wife Eleanor, staying still in England, leave 
to appoint attorneys in Ireland. In March 1297 he had livery of his inheritance, having 
done homage. He was summoned for military service abroad in May 1297 to the muster 
at Carlisle, 24 June 1300, for service against the Scots, and again (as one of the 
fideles of Ireland) in 1301 and in 1302, and 1314-1333; in 1316 and 1317 he was in 
Ireland, serving against Edward Bruce, and in February 1324/5 was summoned for 
service in Guienne. He and his son John were both knighted, 22 May 1306, at the 
knighting of Prince Edward. He was a conservator of the peace in Dorset, 1307-1329. 
In May 1324 he was summoned to attend the Great Council at Westminster. In the 
political troubles of the reign of Edward II he took the King's side, while his son John 
was an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.

He married, 1stly, in or before 1289, Eleanor, sister of Master Thomas DE GORGES. 
She was living 1314. He married, 2ndly, Joan, widow of Nicholas DE PERCY, who 
died in 1324, and daughter and heir of Sir Walter FOLIOT, by his wife Ada or Alda, 
daughter and heir of Sir Laurence DE SAMFORD of Melbury (h). He was living 26 
January 1340/1, but dead in June 1341. His widow, who was aged 26 and more in 
1330 (k), was heiress (inter alia) of a sixth part of the barony of Nantwich in Cheshire. 
She married, 3rdly, Sir Alexander DE VENABLES, with whom she nominated attorneys 
for Ireland 7 September 1342. She died before 11 February 1348/9 (c). [Complete 
Peerage VIII:579-81, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(h) By his 2nd wife Sir John had 3 daughters, Alice, Joan and Elizabeth. Joan dsp., 
but Elizabeth had issue and long survived her mother, though not returned as coheir in 
the Inq.p.m. quoted in note "c" on following page.

(k) When her mother died. On 16 Mar. 1336/7 William, son of William de Percy, parson 
of Folke, Dorset, was to be arrested for the abduction of Joan, wife of John 
Mautravers, the elder.

(c) When the writ to the excheator was issued. Her heirs (as returned in Cheshire) 
were her two daughters: (i) Joan, her daughter by Nicholas de Percy, then aged 26 
and wife of Piers de Brewes; (ii) Alice, her daughter by John Mautravers, then aged 
21. As Alice, mother of John Browning, she was living in 1415.

Parents
MALTRAVERS John IV (ABT 1235 - BEF 28 Feb 1297)
____ Joan (1239 - )

Siblings
MALTRAVERS John V (BEF 1266 - AFT 26 Jan 1341)

Marriage To DE GORGES Eleanor (ABT 1262 - AFT 1314)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE GORGES Ralph (ABT 1230 - BEF 24 Oct 1271)
DE MORVILLE Ellen (Alianore) (ABT 1238 - AFT 5 Feb 1291)

Children by DE GORGES Eleanor ABT 1262 - AFT 1314
MALTRAVERS John VI (ABT 1290 - 16 Feb 1364)

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