John de Vescy , of Alnwick, Sir 
John de was born on July 18th, 1244 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England. John de's father was William de Vescy , Lord of Alnwick, Sir and his mother was Agnes de Ferrers. His paternal grandparents were Eustace de Vescy , Lord of Alnwick, MCS, Sir and Margaret of Scotland; his maternal grandparents were William III de Ferrers , 5th Earl of Derby and Sibyl Marshal. He had a brother and a sister, named William 1st Baron de and Agnes de. He was the oldest of the three children. He died in Montpelier, Gascony, France (dsp). He was buried in Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland, England.General Notes
JOHN DE VESCY, 1st son and heir, by 2nd wife, was born 18 July 1244. His wardship was granted, 12 February 1253/4, to Piers of Savoy, the Queen's uncle, and in June following he was being educated with Edmund, the King's son, and Henry de Lacy at Windsor. As the King's yeoman he was granted, 22 September 1262, 40 marks a year for his maintenance while a minor in the King's ward. In the Barons' War he supported Simon de Montfort and was summoned to his Parliament, 24 December 1264. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Evesham, 4 August 1265 (i), but was later released and compounded for his estates under the Dictum of Kenilworth, 31 October 1266. Early in 1267 he led a rising in the North, but was besieged at Alnwick and forced to submit by Prince Edward, whose devoted friend he afterwards became. He took the cross and attended the Prince on his Crusade, 1270-72, being one of the barons who led his wife away, when Edward was operated on for a poisoned wound at Acre, June 1272. From 7 November 1274 to December 1276 he was Constable of Scarborough Castle; and in October 1275 he was a leader of the expidition which defeated Godred, King of Man. He had a protection, going to Santiago, 23 January 1275/6; was present at the Council concerning Llewellyn, 12 November 1276; and was summoned to serve against the Welsh in 1277 and 1282-83. From 1278, described as the King's confidant (secretarius), he was continually employed on important diplomatic missions. He was a Commissioner to the Duke of Brabant for the marriage of his son to the King's daughter, Margaret, February 1277/8, and to hear the disputes between the King of Scotland and the Bishop of Durham, 4 February 1278/9. On 7 January 1281/2 he was granted the custody of Dunster Castle during the minority of the heir of John de Mohun. In 1282, with Anthony Bek, he was commissioned to negotiate the marriage between Eleanor, the King's eldest daughter, and Alfonso, eldest son of Peter of Aragon, and he acted as proxy for Eleanor in the ceremony at Huesca in August. He was a Commissioner to mediate in a dispute between the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Guelders, 20 June 1284, and to conclude a marriage between Elizabeth, the King's daughter, and the son of the Count of Holland, 11 June 1285. In 1286 he went to France with the King and was one of the hostages under the Treaty of Canfran (Aragon), 27 October 1288, to be delivered to Philip of Aragon, by whom he was, however, granted 3 months' leave of absence, as from 1 November following.
He married, 1stly, Agnes, sister of Alice, COUNTESS OF LINCOLN, daughter of MANFRED III, MARQUESS OF SALUZZO. She died s.p. shortly after the battle of Evesham (4 August 1265] it is said of grief for her husband's imprisonment, and was buried, as was her said sister, at the Black Friars, Pontefract. He married, 2ndly, between 3 January 1278/9 and 26 December 1280, Isabel, kinswoman to Queen Eleanor, being sister of Henry (DE BEAUMONT), LORD BEAUMONT, also EARL OF BUCHAN [SCT], daughter of LOUIS DE BRIENNE, styled D'ACRE, and jure uxoris VICOMTE DE BEAUMONT, in Maine, by Agnes, daughter and eventually sole heir of Ralph DE BEAUMONT, hereditary VICOMTE OF MAINE, styled VICOMTE DE BEAUMONT. He died s.p., probably on 10 February 1288/9, at Montpellier, in Gascony, and was buried in Alnwick Abbey, aged 44. On 19 December 1290 his heart, with those of the late Queen Eleanor and her son Alphonso, styled Earl of Chester, was buried at Blackfriars. His widow, who was granted the custody of Bamburgh Castle, 8 October 1305-May 1312, and who, with her brother Henry, was banished from the Court in 1311 (but soon returned), died s.p. shortly before 1 November 1334 and was buried in the choir of the Black Friars at Scarborough, of which she was a great benefactor. [Complete Peerage XII/2:278-80, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(i) A Northumberland story relates that after the death of Simon de Montfort one of his feet was taken to Alnwick Priory by John and enclosed in a silver shoe, where it was kept as an object of veneration.
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- b.< 1056 in Vains, Manche, Normandy, France d.1138 in Saxlingham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1083 in Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England d.03 Jul 1157 in ambushed near Basingwerk Abbey, Flintshire, Wales
- b.~ 1063 in Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1118 in Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England d.<Sep 1183 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1065 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1090 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England d.< 1120 in in childbirth
- b.~ 1075 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1170 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England d.Aug 1216 in killed besieging Barnard Castle, Durham, England
- b.~ 1070 in Estouteville-Ecales, Normandy, France d.> 1138 in Normandy, France - of Cottingham, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1105 in Cottingham, East Ride Yorkshire, England d.1183 in Lazenby, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1075 in Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1135 in Cottingham, East Ride Yorkshire, England d.> 1185 in Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1085 in Lazenby, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1115 in Lazenby, Cumberland, England
- b.<16 May 1205 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England d.<07 Oct 1253 in Gascony, France
- b.~ 1080 in Scotland d.24 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1114 in Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1072 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England d.23 Apr 1131 in Scotland
- b.1143 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.04 Dec 1214 in Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire, England
- b.~ 1071 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1122 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.1178 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1170 in Scotland d.>13 Nov 1218
- b.~ 1120 in Scotland
- b.~ 1145 in Scotland
- b.18 Jul 1244 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England d.10 FEB 1288/89 in Montpelier, Gascony, France (dsp)
- b.~ 1118 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.< 1160 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England
- b.1140 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.<21 Oct 1190 in Seige of Acre, Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.~ 1118 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1172 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.1112 in Abergavenny, Over Gwent, Monmouthshire, Wales d.< 1193 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England
- b.1150 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.AFT 5 FEB 1227/28
- b.~ 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1193 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.<28 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1100 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France d.16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England (poisoned)
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1117 in Gloucestershire, England. d.29 Jul 1189
- b.~ 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.1117 in Montfort-l'Amaury, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.13 MAR 1180/81 in France
- b.1155 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d.12 Jul 1227 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1126 in Monmouth Castle, Gloucestershire, England d.~ 1164
- b.~ 1222 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.11 May 1290 in Greyfriars, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1067 in Cheddar, Axbridge, Somerset, England d.< 1130 in Winterbourne Monkton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
- b.< 1109 in Winterbourne Monkton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England d.<29 Sep 1165 in Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1086 in Venoix near Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.1146 in Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Henley, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1100 in Chitterne, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.1100 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.1147 in Near The Choir, Braenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1191 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1238
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1098 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1100 in Leinster, Ireland d.1 JAN 1170/71 in Ferns, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
- b.1114 in Leinster, Ireland d.1191
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