John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles^[1]

1352 - 1421  (69 years)

• Name	John de Welles
  Suffix	5th Baron Welles
  Birth	20 Apr 1352	Coinsholme, Lincolnshire, England
  Christening	20 Apr 1352	Church of St. Peter in Coinsholme.
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Aug 1421
  Notes	Data from Burke's Extinct Peerage via Mark Humphrys http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal35961 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~havens5/p33121.htm He was retained to stay with the Duke of Lancaster for life, 12 February 1371/2, and accompanied the Duke on his historic but fruitless march from Calais to Bordeaux, August-December 1373; was given seisin of his lands, 6 May 1373; and served on many commissions of the peace, of array, &c., in Lincolnshire from 1374. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 January 1375/6 to 26 February 1420/1, by writs diiected Johanni de Welle, or Welles, such summonses being apparently continued no less than 7 years after his death, viz. from 29 September 1422 to 3 August 1429. He was frequently abroad or serving in the French wars, 1377, 1379-83 and 1387-88; was with the garrison of Berwick-on-Tweed, 1378-79; had licence to go to France "pro Declaratione Honoris ac Nominis sui Salvatione," 22 August 1384; and took part in Richard Il's only expedition to Scotland in 1385. In May 1390 he and Sir David Lindsay, afterwards 1st Earl of Crawford [SCT], performed a notable feat of arms on London Bridge, where Welles was unhorsed at the third course. He was present at Lowestoft, October 1398, on the embarkation of his brother-in-law, the Duke of Norfolk, who had been banished by Richard II; was summoned, 18 May 1400, to perform homage and fealty to Henry IV, was appointed, 11 May 1402, to proclaim, in Lincolnshire, the King's intention of enforcing law and order; and ordered, 8 September 1403, to stop granting livery and making unlawful assemblies. John married, (?) 2ndly, before 13 August 1417, Margery. He died 26 August 1421. She died 8 April 1426. [Complete Peerage XII/2:441-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  Person ID	I13796	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2013

  
  

  Father	Sir John de Welles, 4th Baron Welles,   b. 23 Aug 1334   d. 11 Oct 1361 (Age 27 years)
  Mother	Maud de Ros,   b. Abt 1334, Hamlake, Yorkshire, England d. 9 Dec 1388, Carmelite Friars, London, England (Age ~ 54 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1351
  Family ID	F9042	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret (Eleanor) Mowbray,   b. 1364   d. 1417 (Age 53 years)
  Children	1. Eudo de Welles   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Eleanor de Welles   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F6504	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2006

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).