General Notes

REFN: 12647AN
Justice
Sir
Son and heir
Cokayne's Complete Peerage in Dave's Database.
Dave's Database. Utzinger, Dave, Rootsweb's WorldConnect, World Wide We
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BARONY OF DEINCOURT
II. 2. WILLIAM [DEINCOURT), LORD DEINCOURT, grandson and heir, being 2nd b
ut 1st surviving son of John DEINCOURT, who was son and heir apparent of t
he last Lord, but died v.p. The King took his homage and he had live
ry of his grandfather's lands, 7 February 1326/7, beings then aged 26 a
nd more. He did homage and fealty to the Archbishop of York for his lan
ds in Burnby, 11 February 1326/7. On 20 February 1327/8, after the dea
th of Joan, wife of Hamon de Mascy, he obtained possession of the messuag
e, &C., in Elmton, as the right heir of Edmund Deincourt, his grandfathe
r. He was summoned for Military Service against the Scots from 5 April 13
27 to 23 December 1355 to Councils from 24 August 1336 to 20 June 1358 a
nd to Parliament from 20 July 1332 to 1 June 1363, by writs directed Wille
lmo de Eyncourt, Deyncourt, or Dayncourt. Appointed a justice in cos. Not
ts and Derby, to hear and determine the oppressions committed by the King
's ministers and others, 10 December 1340: he was then a banneret. A comma
nder at the battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October 1346, being one of tho
se who were thanked, 20 October following, for their services. On 14 May 1
347 he was summoned to join the King before Calais. He was the principal w
arder of the King of France when that monarch was a prisoner in Englan
d, 29 July 1359 to 4 May 1360, at Somerton Castle, co. Lincoln and afterwa
rds at Berkhamstead Castle the King being removed to the latter place in M
arch 1359/60, by order of the Council, there being a scare of a French inv
asion. He married, before 26 March 1326, Milicent, 1st daughter of Sir Wil
liam La Zouche, of Harringworth, Northants [LORD ZOUCHE], by Maud, daught
er of Sir John LOVEL, of Titchmarsh, Northants, and [of] Minster Lovell, O
xon [LORD LOVEL]. He died 2 June 1364. His widow's dower was order
ed to be assigned, 5 July 1364. She died 22 June 1379. [CP 4:120-2]
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