Family and Education
prob. s. of John Moresom (d.1405) of Scarborough by his 1st w. Isabel. m. by Sept. 1390 Alice, prob. da. of Robert Rottese of Scarborough (d. Sept. 1390) by his w. Amote.Borthwick Inst. York, York registry wills i. f. 13; iii. ff. 234v-5.
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Parlimentarian
Main residence: Scarborough, Yorks.
Notes
It has been argued that John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, intervened in the Scarborough elections of 1378 to have an esquire of his named John Moresom returned to Parliament (EHR, xlv. 624-5). As the local sources make plain, however, we are dealing with a completely different individual.
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Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
MORESOM, John
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Oxford 1644
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