John of Monmouth (died 1257)

John of Monmouth[1] (died 1257) was a feudal lord in the Welsh Marches.

Life

He was the son of John of Monmouth and his second wife Agnes, daughter of Walter de Muscegros.[2]

Tumulus near Penrhos, Monmouthshire, possible site of a short-lived disputed castle.

Penrhos Castle was the focus of a sharp dispute the younger John of Monmouth had with William III de Cantilupe.[3] There are official records showing that John was appointed custos of the castle in 1251, and William was pardoned the following year for demolishing it.[4] On the basis of documentary evidence, the castle and the dispute it created lasted from 1248 to 1253.[5]

Family and legacy

John of Monmouth died, according to the Victoria County History of Dorset, without issue.[2] He left Monmouth Castle to Prince Edward.[6] His heirs were Albretha de Boterell and Joan de Nevil, an aunt on his mother's side, and a first cousin.[2][7]

A recent scholarly source identifies another John of Monmouth, later hanged for murder, to whom this John of Monmouth left property, as a half-brother.[8] It is stated that John of Monmouth married a daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon.[9]

Notes
  1. John de Monmouth, John de Munemuth, John de Monumue.
  2. William Henry Page, The Victoria History of the County of Dorset vol. 3 (1908), p. 58; archive.org.
  3. CastleFacts, Penrhos Castle. Archived 2012-08-02 at Archive.today
  4. "Archaeologia Cambrensis". archive.org. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  5. "Gwent local history the journal of Gwent Local History Council. | 88 | 2000 | Welsh Journals - The National Library of Wales". welshjournals.llgc.org.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  6. Davies, R. R. "Monmouth, John of". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18959. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 19". British History Online. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  8. D. A. Crowley (editor), A. P. Baggs, Jane Freeman and Janet H. Stevenson (1995). "Parishes: Steeple Langford". A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 15: Amesbury hundred, Branch and Dole hundred. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 12 May 2012.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. Alfred Theophilus Lee, The History of the Town and Parish of Tetbury (1857), p. 209;archive.org.
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