Sir John de Welles Baron Welles of Gainsby 
Sir John de Welles was born on April 20th, 1352 in Welle, Lincoln or Conisholme, Lincoln. Sir John de Welles' father was John 4th Baron de Welles Baron Welles and his mother was Maud de Ros. His paternal grandparents were Adam 3rd Baron de Welles , Sir and Margaret (Eleanor) Bardolf; his maternal grandparents were William de Ros IV Baron Ros and Margery de Badlesmere. He had a sister named Margaret (Margery). He died at the age of 69 on August 26th, 1421.General Notes
Faris in "Plantagenet Ancestry", p. 277 says that John de Welles, 3rd Lord
Welles, married Maud, probable daughter of William de Ros, 2nd Lord Ros of
Helmesley; one of John and Maud's children was John de Welles, 5th Lord
Welles, b. 1352.
John de Welles, 5th baron, was summoned to parliament from 20 January, 1376, to 26 February, 1421. This nobleman served in the expedition made into Flanders in the retinue of John, Duke of Lancaster, in the 27th Edward III [1354], and in the 1st Richard II [1377] was in the wars of France. The next year he was in the garrison of Berwick, under Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, its governor. His lordship subsequently obtained license to travel beyond sea, and returning in the 8th Richard II [1385], had leave to go abroad again for the vindication of his honour, having received some affront from a knight in France. He seems to have come home solely to procure letters testimonial vouching for his credit and reputation. After this we find him in the Scottish wars, and in the 19th of the same reign, he was ambassador to Scotland, where, during his sojourn, being at a banquet where deeds of arms becoming the subject of conversation, his lordship exclaimed, "Let words have no place; if ye know not the chivalry and valiant deeds of Englishmen, appoint me a day and place when ye list, and ye shall have experience." This challenge was immediately accepted by David, Earl of Crawford, and London Bridge appointed as the place of combat. The battle was fought on St. George's Day, and the Scottish earl was declared victor. Indeed, he displayed such an extraordinary degree of prowess, that notwithstanding the spear was broken upon his helmet and visage, he remained so immovably fixed in his saddle that the spectators cried out that in defiance of the laws of arms, he was bound thereto. Whereupon he dismounted and got up again and ran a second course, but in the third, Lord Welles was unhorsed and flung to the ground, on which Crawford dismounting, embraced him that the people might understand that he had no animosity, and the earl subsequently visited his lordship with great courtesy until his recovery. Of this Lord Welles nothing further in known than the period of his decease, anno 1421; although for eight years afterwards summonses appear to have been regularly issued to his lordship. But there are other instances upon record of summonses having been directed to barons after their deaths, probably from ignorance that the decease occurred. Lord Welles m. Margaret, or Eleanor, dau. of John, Lord Mowbray, and had two daus., Margaret, and Anne. He was s. by (the son of his deceased eldest son, Eudo, by his wife, Maude, dau. of Ralph, Lord Greystock) his grandson, Sir Leo, or Lionel de Welles. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 572, Welles, Barons Welles]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1187 in Haughley, Stow, Suffolk, England d.BET 1241 AND 1242 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1226 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England d.<24 Sep 1265 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1190 in Grainsby, Lincolnshire, England d.>30 Sep 1226
- b.1260 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England d.01 Sep 1311 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1205 in Ellington, Northamptonshire, England d.BEF 24 FEB 1265/66
- b.~ 1235 in Faxton, Northamptonshire, England d.BEF 5 JAN 1314/15 in Malton Priory, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1205 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.22 Jul 1304 in Bonthorpe, Lincolnshire, England d.BET 24 AND 28 FEB 1344/45 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1200 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England d.22 Oct 1248 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1232 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England d.5 JAN 1296/97 in Colne Engaine, Essex, England
- b.~ 1205 in Cubley, Uttoxeter, Derbyshire, England d.< 1248
- b.~ 1270 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England d.01 Jun 1315 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1210 in Halton, Leicestershire, England
- b.1236 in Halton, Leicestershire, England d.>02 Nov 1305 in Colne Engaine, Essex, England
- b.~ 1215
- b.1334
- b.~ 1229 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England d.01 Dec 1289
- b.29 Sep 1259 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England d.Sep 1304 in Priory, Shelford, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1231 in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England d.1295 in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England
- b.04 Oct 1282 in Wormegay, Downham, Norfolk, England d.15 Dec 1328 in Watton-at-Stone, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
- b.15 FEB 1235/36 in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England d.15 FEB 1285/86 in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.25 Apr 1258 in Addington, Surrey, England d.<28 May 1323 in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.~ 1233 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.<Oct 1267 in Addington, Surrey, England
- b.~ 1314 in Watton-at-Stone, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.BEF FEB 1344/45 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England
- b.1229 in Grandison, Lake Neufchatel, Helvetia, Switzerland d.1300
- b.~ 1255 in Ashperton, Herefordshire, England d.27 Jun 1335 in Lambourn, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1230 in Switzerland
- b.~ 1281 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England d.11 Dec 1357 in Ruskington, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1244 in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland d.1302
- b.1267 in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland d.~ 1284
- b.~ 1250 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d.1300
- b.20 Apr 1352 in Welle, Lincoln or Conisholme, Lincoln d.26 Aug 1421
- b.BET. 1192 - 1193 in Helmsley, Yorkshire, England d.~ 1264 in Kirkham, England
- b.~ 1223 in Belvoir d.17 May 1285 in Kirkham, England
- b.~ 1196 in Helmsley, Yorkshire, England d.> 1266
- b.BET. 1250 - 1255 in Yorkshire, England d.15 Aug 1316
- b. in of Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire d.1247
- b.~ 1223 in of Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire d.15 Jun 1301
- b.1290 in of Helmsley, Yorkshire d.3 FEB 1342/43
- b. in of Freston, Lincolnshire d.1287
- b.~ 1244
- d.09 Dec 1388
- b.~ 1203 d.1258
- b.~ 1232 in Chilham, Kent d.BET. 1284 - 1285 in Castle Badlesmere, Kent
- b.BET. 1259 - 1275 in Chilham, Kent d.14 Apr 1322 in Canterbury, Kent
- b.~ 1205 in of Kingsdowne, Kent d.~ 1239
- b.~ 1234 in Kingsdowne, Kent d.1310
- b.BET. 1306 - 1315 in Castle Badlesmere, Kent d.18 Oct 1363 in of Helmsley, Yorkshire
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Sir John de Welles and Eleanor de Mowbray were married in a religious ceremony about May 1384. They had a son and two daughters, named Eudo, Anne and Eleanor.
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