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 1232 - 1299 (67 years)
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| Name |
John Giffard |
| Title |
Sir |
| Suffix |
KG, 1st Lord Giffard |
| Birth |
19 Jan 1232 |
Brimpsfield, Gloucester, England  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
29 May 1299 |
Boyton, Wiltshire, England [1] |
| Burial |
11 Jun 1299 |
Malmesbury Abbey, England [1] |
| Person ID |
I49553 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
3 Sep 2017 |
| Father |
SIr Elias Giffard, IV, b. ~1180, Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England d. Bef 2 May 1248, Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 67 years) |
| Mother |
Alice Maltravers, b. 1205, Gloucestershire, England d. 1248, Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England (Age 43 years) |
| Marriage |
~1225 |
(England) [3, 4] |
| Family ID |
F19742 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Baroness Maud de Clifford, b. 1238, Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England d. Bef 1283, Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England (Age 44 years) |
| Marriage |
~ 1271 [5] |
| Children |
| | 1. Katherine Giffard, b. 1272, Brimpsfield, Gloucester, England d. Aft 1322, Ledbury, Hereford, England (Age 51 years) |
| | 2. Baroness Eleanor Giffard, b. ~1275, Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England d. 23 Jan 1324, Blackmere, Cornwall, England (Age ~ 48 years) |
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| Family ID |
F18316 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Biography
Also called Sir John Giffard of Brimsfield. Arms: Gules, three lions passant, in pale, argent, and langued, azure. He was summoned by writ directed "Johanni Giffard de Brimmesfeld" in 1283. John was summoned to parliament by Edward I "Longshanks", King of England on 23 June 1295 as Lord Giffard of Brimsfield. 1st Lord Giffard of Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England, 23 June 1295.
"Still a minor at his father's death. He joined several other Barons and seized the Bishop of Hereford 11 Jun 1263, taking him to Eardisley Castle, and on 18 Sep following, he was among those who made a treaty with Edward, the King's son. In 1264, as a member of the Baronial party, and being in command of Kenilworth Castle, he surprised and destroyed Warwick Castle, taking the Earl and Countess prisoners. He was at the battle of Lewes, where he was taken prisoner. He changed sides together with the Earl of Gloucester and others, and was in the King's army at the battle of Evesham 4 Aug 1265. In consideration of his services at this battle, he was pardoned on 9 Oct 1265 for having been an adherent of Simon de Montfort at Lewes and for all trespasses committed up to that time. Thenceforth he appears to have been in the King's grace; he was one of the commissioners empowered to make a truce between Llewelyn ap Gruffyd, Prince of Wales, and Humphrey de Bohun of Brecknock, and had license to hunt wolves, with his own hounds, throughout all the King's forests in England. The King granted him, in fee, the commote of Is-Cennen in Carmarthen, and the castle of Dynevor, for life, and he was appointed Keeper of the castles of Llandovery in Carmarthen, and that of Builth in Brecknock. He was summoned for military service from 18 Jul 1257 to 7 May 1299, to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 Jun 1283, and at Salisbury, 26 Jan 1296/97, and to Parliament from 24 Jun 1295 to Apr 1299, whereby he became Lord Giffard. He was affianced to Aubrey de Camville at age 4 years, but did not marry her. He abducted his future first wife, Maud, widow of Sir William Longespee, against her will, for which John, appearing before the King, offered to pay a fine of 300 marks, to which the King ordained that if she were not content, the said fine should be void. She was still living 1 Dec 1281, but died s.p.m. not long after. John Giffard married secondly, in 1286, Margaret, the widow of Sir John de Neville. They had a son, John Giffard, who died s.p., when the descendants of two of his four half-sisters, namely Katherine and Alianore, were found to be his heirs."
"He died at his house at Boyton, Wiltshire, on 29 May 1299, and was buried on 11 June at Malmesbury Abbey. His wife Matilda had died in or soon after 1281, and he had married in 1286 Margaret, widow of John de Neville (d. 1282). She died in 1338. Giffard left several children. He had three daughters with his first wife: Katherine, who married Nicholas Audley, Eleanor, and Matilda, still unmarried in 1299, who (with an elder half-sister) shared the Clifford inheritance from their mother. His only son, also John Giffard, was born to his second wife in or about 1287, and remained in wardship until 1308, when he inherited the lordship of Brimpsfield and the rest of his father's acquisitions. The elder John Giffard's career is not without interest. His passionate involvement with the politics of the later Henrician monarchy, and his fitful relationship with the Lord Edward, dominated his young adulthood. His later years, following his final frenzied behaviour over Matilda Longespâee, are a marked contrast. He settled into the mould of the Edwardian magnate, his career revolving around public service, the king's military ambitions, and his own financial and estate interests. His foundation of Gloucester Hall at Oxford (1283?4), as a Benedictine house within the university for students from the ancient abbey his family had long patronized, is an interesting manifestation of a new direction in aristocratic patronage, and is directly comparable with the patronage of Merton College by Sir Richard de Harcourt, another middle-ranking Edwardian aristocrat." (Ref: ODNB)
Sources
Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. III pp. 613-614
Phillimore, W.P.W & Fry, George S. Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem Returned Into the Court of Chancery (British Record Society, London, 1893) Part IV. 20 Henry III. to 29 Edward I. 1236-1300, Page 159
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cousin/html/p295.htm
GeneaJourney.com
MEDIEVAL LANDS, Untitled English Nobility, John Giffard (d. 1299)
Ancestry family trees
end of biography [1]
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- [S11526] "Maud (Berkeley) Giffard (abt. 1160 - 1189)", Biography, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Berkeley-363, retrieved or revisi.
- [S13814] "Eleanor (Giffard) le Strange (abt. 1275 - 1324)", Biography, Ancestors & Descendants, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gif.
- [S13815] "Elias Giffard (abt. 1180 - bef. 1248)", Biography, Ancestors & Descendants, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Giffard-32, a.
- [S11523] "Maud (Clifford) Giffard (1238 - bef. 1283)", Biography, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clifford-47, retrieved or revisit.
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