Sir John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave

Male 1315 - 1353  (37 years)


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  • Name John Segrave 
    Title Sir 
    Suffix 4th Baron Segrave 
    Birth 4 May 1315  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 1 Apr 1353  Repton, Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Burial Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I43824  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2015 

    Father Sir Stephen Segrave, 3rd Baron Segrave,   b. 0___ 1285   d. 0Dec 1353 (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Mother Alice FitzAlan,   b. 0___ 1291, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Feb 1340, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Marriage Y  [2, 3
    Family ID F17579  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lady Margaret Brotherton, Countess of Norfolk,   b. ~ 1320, Norfolk, Norfolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Mar 1399, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years) 
    Marriage ~ 1335  (Norfolkshire, England) Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Segrave,   b. 25 Oct 1338, Blaby, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 1368, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years)
    Family ID F15937  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - ~ 1335 - (Norfolkshire, England) Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1 Apr 1353 - Repton, Derbyshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • 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 similar to that of the barons.

      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, daughter and eventual sole heir of Thomas of Brotherton, son of Edward I by his second marriage,[2] by whom he had two sons and two daughters:[3]

      John de Segrave, who died young.[4]
      John de Segrave (d. before 1 April 1353), second of that name, who was contracted to marry Blanche of Lancaster, younger daughter and coheiress of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. However the contract was later declared void.[4]

      About 1349 a double marriage was solemnized in which John Segrave married Blanche Mowbray, while John's sister, Elizabeth Segrave, married Blanche Mowbray's brother, John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray, Pope Clement VI having granted dispensations for the marriages at the request of Lancaster, in order to prevent 'disputes between the parents', who were neighbours.[5][6][4]

      Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave, who married John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray.[4]

      Margaret de Segrave, who died young, before 1353.[4]

      A year after the marriage 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 and his wife sought a divorce, arguing that they had been contracted in marriage before Margaret was of age, and that she had never consented. The impetus for this was that Margaret wished to marry Walter Manny, 1st Baron Manny, with whom she was implicated.[7] However, Segrave died at Bretby in Repton, Derbyshire on 1 April 1353,[8] before the divorce had been granted. He was succeeded in the barony by his daughter Elizabeth.

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  • Sources 
    1. [S7812] "John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave (1315-1353)" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Segrave,_4th_Baron_Segrave.

    2. [S10537] "Lady Alice FitzAlan Segrave" biography, which was abstracted, downloaded and published Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 by Dav.

    3. [S10536] "John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave (1315-1353)" biography, which was revisited, abstracted, downloaded and published Thurs.

    4. [S7807] "Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (1320-1399)" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret,_Duchess_of_Norfolk.