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Birth:          1292 of Tattershall, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          30 Apr 1335 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marmion,_4th_Baron_Marmion_of_Winteringham
Sir John Marmion, Baron Marmion of Winteringham was an Anglo-Norman baron who 
represented Lincolnshire in Parliament and fought in the Wars of Scottish 
Independence.
Ancestry[edit]

He was the son and heir of Sir John Marmion, 3rd Baron Marmion of Winteringham & 
Isabella[2] and was born c.1292.[3]

Career and Life[edit]

John was an adherent of the king's cousin and rival Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster 
and on 16 Oct 1313 was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston.[4] He 
again found himself in trouble in 1314 when an arrest warrant was issued for both 
John and his father who lead a group of dozens of men on a raid upon the Abbot of 
Fountains Abbey's land at Aldeburgh and Balderby, Yorkshire.[5] Timber, two hundred 
sheep, fifty oxen and four carts were stolen and the Abbot's servants suffered 
kidnapping, beatings, cuts and had their beards plucked out.[5] The Abbot and his 
monks may not have been entirely innocent having themselves been accused of 
violent assault in 1307[6] and of stealing deer in 1316.[6]

In May 1314 John was summoned to serve in Sir Henry Tyes' company at the Battle of 
Bannockburn.[7] Following the disastrous defeat Robert the Bruce and his armies 
swept south[8] and John was again summoned to defend the north against the 
rampant Scots at Berwick-upon-Tweed on 30 Jun 1314.[4]

He joined John de Mowbray's company in Aymer de Valence's attempt to re-capture 
Berwick in August 1319[7] which led to the Battle of Myton and a two-year truce.[8]

His father died at or shortly after the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322 whereupon John 
Jnr took over his father's lands. This was at a time when the Fens were gradually 
becoming flooded and at least one of John's meadows at Cherry Willingham sank 
under water.[9]

Robert the Bruce used Boroughbridge as an opportunity to invade eighty miles into the 
north-west of England plundering and burning towns such as Lancaster and Preston 
as he went.[8] In the last half of 1322 John was summoned to help repel Bruce and 
drive him back into Scotland where he operated a scorched earth policy to deprive 
the English of food.[4] Hunger and dysentery forced King Edward to withdraw his 
forces back to York.[8] Marmion was stationed there in May 1323 when a thirteen-year 
truce was agreed between King Edward and Bruce.[4]

John was summoned to a Great Council at Westminster in May 1324 as a Knight of 
Gloucestershire, Yorkshire and Lindsey, Lincolnshire.[4]

He accompanied John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey and Queen Isabella in their 
negotiations with King Charles IV of France in Gascony in March 1325.[4] Rather than 
returning to England Isabella stayed in France where she embarked upon an affair 
with Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and formed a plot to oust her husband, Edward 
II, from the throne. The plot was successful and Isabella called a Parliament in 
January 1327, which was attended by John Marmion,[4] and which ratified Isabella's 
eldest son Edward III as the new king.

In April 1327 John was sued by William de Paris (a former MP for Lincs) for the 
wardship of William, the underage son and heir of the late Leicestershire MP and 
knight Sir William Marmion (a leading candidate to be the Knight of Norham Castle 
fame) and his land at Keisby, Lincs.[10][a]

When the Queen and Roger Mortimer gathered a vast army[b] at York in July 1327 
John joined them.[7] The campaign saw little fighting and after the Battle of Stanhope 
Park the English army returned to York and disbanded.[8]

On 25 May 1329 John was granted protection for three years to go on pilgrimage to 
the Holy Land.[5] Deer were stolen from his park at Tanfield in his absence and an 
arrest warrant to catch the thieves was issued on 11 Oct 1331.[5]

He was appointed to arrest all disturbers of the peace in Sussex on 21 Mar 1332, 
shortly before the start of the Second War of Scottish Independence.[5]

Sir John died in 1335,[2] the year of Edward III's 'Great Invasion of Scotland' and the 
Battle of Boroughmuir.



Family and descendants[edit]

John first married Elizabeth[3] before then marrying Maud daughter of Thomas, 1st 
Lord Furnival[2] and had the following children:
Robert Marmion (d.s.p. 1360)[11] Of infirm condition and never summoned to 
Parliament.[2]
Joan Marmion (d.1362[12]), m1. John Bernack[2][13][c] m2. John Folville.[12][14] 
Issue Maud Bernack m. Ralph de Cromwell[12]
Avice Marmion, 2nd wife of John de Grey, K.G. of Rotherfield.[2] Issue John and 
Robert adopted the Marmion name and their Fitz-Hugh descendants became the 
eventual heirs of the lands at Winteringham, Tanfield, etc.

Parents
MARMION John (BEF 1266 - BEF 7 May 1322)
____ Isabel (BEF 1270 - )

Siblings
MARMION John (1292 - 30 Apr 1335)

Marriage To DE FURNIVAL Maud (ABT 1292 - 20 Feb 1361)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE FURNIVAL Thomas (ABT 1260 - BEF 18 Apr 1332)
LE DESPENCER Joan (1263 - 1322)

Children by DE FURNIVAL Maud ABT 1292 - 20 Feb 1361
MARMION Avice (ABT 1309 - AFT 20 Mar 1378)

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