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Birth:          1257 Combe Martin, Barnstaple, Devonshire, England
Death:          BEF 8 Oct 1324 Kemes, Pembrokeshire, Wales

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BARONY OF MARTIN (I)

WILLIAM MARTIN, grandson and heir, being son and heir of Nicholas son of Nicholas, 
by Maud DE BRIAN. He was aged 25 in 1282, and received livery of his inheritance 1 
April 1282, having done homage. He was about the same time charged to have no 
dealings with the Welsh rebels, and in this and subsequent years was frequently 
summoned to do military service against the Welsh, being ordered to dwell continually 
in the Welsh marches. He was summoned for service also against the Scots, and for 
service overseas in Gascony. In 1283 he was summoned to the assembly at 
Shrewsbury. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 24 September 
1324, by writs directed Willelmo Martyn, whereby he is held to have become LORD 
MARTIN, and was present in Parliament as a Trier of Petitions in 1320. In November 
1290 he came to an agreement with William (de Valence), Earl of Pembroke, as to the 
disputed rights in Kemeys, acknowledging that he and his heirs were bound to do suit 
at the county court of Pembroke, cognizance of pleas arising within Kemeys was 
allowed to the court of Kemeys, with exceptions, and all other liberties as used by 
Martin's ancestors. In 1293 the King gave him a charter for a fair at Marwood, and 
free warren at Dartington and Combe Martin in Devon, and West Lydford in Somerset. 
Troops were to be raised in Kemeys in 1294. He was serving in Gascony 1295-97. In 
September 1297, while staying at Ghent on the King's service, he made an agreement 
with John de Hastinges, lord of Abergavenny, by which William, son and heir of John 
de Hastinges, was to marry Eleanor, elder daughter of William Martin, and Edmund, 
son and heir of William Martin, to marry Jonette or Joan, elder daughter of John de 
Hastinges. This was confirmed by the King on 3 November 1297, on which date 
William Martin also had licence to demise £100 worth of land to whomsoever he 
wished of the King's allegiance. On 10 April 1298 he was granted custodies and 
marriages to the value of £510, whenever they should fall in, in recompense for his 
losses in a storm at sea while coming with the King from Flanders. In February 1300/1, 
as Dominus de Camesio, he joined. in the Barons' letter to the Pope. In June of the 
same year orders were issued for the payment of the wages of the foot soldiers that he 
and others were bringing to Carlisle, and in that and later years he was a commissioner 
of oyer and terminer in Devon, &c. In 1304 he was one of the commissioners to treat 
with the Scots. In 1305 the King gave him custody of the lands of the heirs of Henry 
de la Pomeroy and their marriages; and in the same year he was appointed a justice of 
Trailbaston. In December 1307 he was one of the keepers of the peace in Devon 
during the King's absence beyond seas. He was summoned to attend the Coronation 
of Edward II on 25 February 1307/8, and was present on 9 February when the great 
seal was delivered to the Chancellor.

In September 1308, after the death of Geoffrey Canville [Lord Canville], he succeeded 
to the inheritance of his mother, Maud de Brian. In addition to summonses to 
Parliament, he was summoned to Councils in 1309 and in May 1324. In 1309 andI 
1310 he was required to raise 200 foot soldiers in his lordships of Kemeys and, Dyfid. 
In 1309 he joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope on abuses. In 1310 he was chosen 
as one of the fifteen ordainers to draw up ordinances for the reform of the kingdom. 
He was conservator of the peace for Devon in 1314. On 19 February 1314/5 he was 
appointed justice of West and South Wales and keeper of the castle of Carmarthen 
and other of the King's castles there, which office he held till 24 June 1316. In 1317 
was one of those appointed to check any illegal confederacies in Devon, and in 1318 
he was made a member of the standing royal council. In November 1318 the sheriff of 
Devon was ordered to hire two ships [at Martin's expense) to convey victuals and 
other necessaries to him and his men, who were going to serve the King in the 
marches of Scotland. Hugh de Courtenay and William Martin were in November 1321 
ordered to attack any who might rise against the King in Cornwall and Devon, 
assembling all horse and foot there; at the same time he was one of the conservators 
of the peace in Gower, and was ordered to abstain from the meeting of the "Good 
Peers" at Doncaster, which had been convened by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. In the 
following February he was ordered to lead his forces to Coventry to resist the Earl of 
Lancaster.

He married, before January 1281/2, Eleanor, widow of Sir John DE MOHUN, and 
daughter of Sir Reynold FITZPIERS. He died before 8 October 1324, when the writ to 
the escheator was issued. [Complete Peerage VIII:535-7, (transcribed by Dave 
Utzinger)]

Parents
MARTIN Nicholas (ABT 1236 - 1260)
DE BRIENNE Maud (BEF 25 Dec 1242 - BEF 29 Sep 1279)

Siblings
MARTIN William (1257 - BEF 8 Oct 1324)

Marriage To FITZ PIERS Eleanor (ABT 1252 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FITZ PIERS Reginald (ABT 1212 - ABT 4 May 1286)
DE STANFORD Alice (ABT 1220 - AFT Aug 1264)

Children by FITZ PIERS Eleanor ABT 1252 - 
FITZ MARTIN Joan (ABT 1291 - BEF 1 Aug 1322)

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