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MORDAUNT, Robert (d.1449), of Turvey, Beds.

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s. and h. of Robert Mordaunt (c. 1355-by 1396) of Turvey by Agnes, da. and h. of John Lestraunge of Walden, Essex and Timworth, Suff. m. by Sept. 1421, Elizabeth, da. of Robert Holdenby of Holdenby, Northants., at least 1s. 2da.G. Lipscomb, Bucks. iv. 110-14; R. Halstead, Succinct Gens. 485-8; VCH Beds. iii. 110; CIPM, xiii. no. 270.
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Main residence: Turvey, Beds.
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MORDAUNT, Robert (-d.1449)

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MONYN, John, of Dover, Buckland and Canterbury, Kent.

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?s John Monyn, senior, of Dover. m. (1) bef. Feb. 1380, Isabel, ?1s. Thomas; (2) bef. Apr. 1405, Alice.
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Custos bonorum, Dover Sept. 1372–3; jurat 1372 – 73, 1382 – 83, 1385 – 86, 1398 – 99, 1410–12;Add. 29615, ff. 23, 25; Egerton 2088, ff. 108, 157, 2091, ff. 14, 18, 65. dep. bailiff by Mar. 1380–1385, Jan. 1386;CCR, 1377–81, p. 289; Egerton 2091, ff. 33, 53, 70. mayor Sept. ?1386 – 87, 1387 – 88, 1395 – 96, 1403–4.Egerton 2088, ff. 3, 75, 2091, f. 17; Arch. Cant. xxv. 86; Dover Chs. ed. Statham, 107, 111, 133, 149; S.P.H. Statham, Hist. Dover, 165.

Cinque Ports’ bailiff at Yarmouth Sept. – Nov. 1373, 1375, 1411.Add. 29615, ff. 29, 36; Reg. Daniel Rough (Kent Rec. Ser. xvi), 186, 190; Romney assmt. bk. 2, f. 72.

Jt. warden of St. George’s fraternity, Dover by July 1394.Egerton 2088, f. 60.

Commr. to assemble vessels to attack pirates, Dover May 1398.

Jurat, Canterbury Mich. 1410–11, 1417–19.Canterbury Cathedral, City and Diocesan RO, city accts. FA1, ff. 93, 128, 133d.

Main residences: Dover, Buckland; Canterbury, Kent.
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MONYN, John

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MONTGOMERY, Sir Nicholas II (d.1435), of Cubley and Marston Montgomery, Derbys.

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s. and h. of Sir Nicholas Montgomery I. m. c. 20 July 1391, Joan, da. of Sir Nicholas Longford (d.1401), of Withington, Lancs. and Longford, Derbys., at least 1s. Kntd. by Feb. 1414.CPL, iv. 442; HMC Hastings, i. 110; Huntington Lib. San Marino, Hastings ms HAP box II; EHR, xlix. 632; DL42/16 f. 1. Staffs. Parl. Hist. i (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), 269 confuses Montgomery with his son and namesake and mistakenly gives his wife as Margaret, da. and h. of Reynold Dethick.
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Commr. to make arrests, Derbys., Notts. Jan. 1414 (lollards at large); of array, Derbys. Mar. 1419, Rouen Aug., Oct. 1420, Jan. 1421,DKR, xlii. 406, 431, 433. Derbys. Mar. 1427; to hold an inquisition Dec. 1427 (lands of Hugh Halle); raise a royal loan, Staffs. Mar. 1430, Mar. 1431.

Constable of the duchy of Lancaster castle of Tutbury, Staffs. 15 Feb. 1414 – d.; master forester of Needwood chase, Staffs. 15 Feb. 1414 – d.; steward of the lordship of Tutbury 24 Nov. 1416 – Oct. 1422, the duchy manors of Melbourne by 28 June 1420 and Wirksworth, Derbys. by 28 Jan. 1428.Somerville, Duchy, i. 539, 542, 546; Derbys. Chs. ed. Jeayes, no. 2673. As DL29/402/6451 shows, it was this MP, not his father (as Somerville states) who occupied the stewardship of Tutbury. He was, moreover, granted the constableship at an earlier date than that given by Somerville (DL42/16 f. 1).

J.p. Derbys. 8 July 1419–23.

Sheriff, Staffs. 5 Nov. 1430 – 26 Nov. 1431, Notts. and Derbys. 26 Nov. 1431–5 Nov. 1432.PRO List ‘Sheriffs’, 103, 127. He was first appointed sheriff of Notts. and Derbys. on 6 Nov. 1424, but Sir Richard Vernon* actually served that term (ibid. 103; CFR, xv. 88).

Main residences: Cubley; Marston Montgomery, Derbys.
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MONTGOMERY, Sir Nicholas II (-d.1435)

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