John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave

John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave (4 May 1315 – 1 April 1353) was an English peer and landowner in Leicestershire and Yorkshire. His family title of Baron Segrave is drawn from a village now spelled Seagrave, which uses a coat of arms imitated from that of the family.

John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave
Arms of Segrave.[1]
Born4 May 1315
Died(1353-04-01)1 April 1353
Repton, Derbyshire
BuriedGrey Friars, London
Spouse(s)Margaret of Brotherton, Duchess of Norfolk
IssueJohn de Segrave
Elizabeth Segrave, Baroness Mowbray
Margaret Segrave
FatherStephen Segrave, 3rd Baron Segrave
MotherAlice FitzAlan

Segrave was the son of Stephen Segrave, 3rd Baron Segrave and Alice Fitzalan. Little is known of his early life.

About 1335, Segrave married Margaret of Brotherton, daughter and eventual sole heiress of Thomas of Brotherton, son of King Edward I of England by his second wife, Margaret of France.[2] Their children were:

A year after Segrave's marriage to Margaret of Brotherton, his wife inherited her father's title and estates, becoming in her own right Countess of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England.

In 1350, Segrave's wife, Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, sought an annulment, arguing that they had been contracted in marriage before Margaret was of age, and that she had never consented to the marriage. The impetus for this was that Margaret wished to marry Lord Manny, with whom she had an understanding.[6] However, Segrave died at Bretby in Repton, Derbyshire, on 1 April 1353,[7] before the annulment had been granted or refused. He was succeeded in the barony by his daughter, Elizabeth, 5th Baroness Segrave.

Notes

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  1. ^ Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees. Joseph Foster. 1902. (p.115)
  2. ^ Archer II 2004.
  3. ^ a b c d e Richardson II 2011, p. 640.
  4. ^ Cokayne 1936, p. 384.
  5. ^ Archer I 2004.
  6. ^ Anne Commire, Women in World History (vol. 10, 2000) p. 229
  7. ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 638.

References

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  • Archer, Rowena E. (2004). "Mowbray, John (III), fourth Lord Mowbray (1340–1368)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19452. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • Archer, Rowena E. (2004). "Brotherton, Margaret, suo jure duchess of Norfolk (c.1320–1399)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53070. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • Cokayne, George Edward (1936). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden. Vol. IX. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 380–5.
  • Cokayne, George Edward (1949). The Complete Peerage, edited by Geoffrey H. White. Vol. XI. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 609–10.
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1449966393.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Peerage of England
Preceded by Baron Segrave
1325–1353
Succeeded by
Elizabeth Segrave
John Mowbray