John de Welles 5th Baron Welles [13796] ²⁴

  General Notes:

Data from Burke's Extinct Peerage via Mark Humphrys
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal35961


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~havens5/p33121.htm

He was retained to stay with the Duke of Lancaster for life, 12 February 1371/2, and accompanied the Duke on his historic but fruitless march from Calais to Bordeaux, August-December 1373; was given seisin of his lands, 6 May 1373; and served on many commissions of the peace, of array, &c., in Lincolnshire from 1374.

He was summoned to Parliament from 20 January 1375/6 to 26 February 1420/1, by writs diiected Johanni de Welle, or Welles, such summonses being apparently continued no less than 7 years after his death, viz. from 29 September 1422 to 3 August 1429.

He was frequently abroad or serving in the French wars, 1377, 1379-83 and 1387-88; was with the garrison of Berwick-on-Tweed, 1378-79; had licence to go to France "pro Declaratione Honoris ac Nominis sui Salvatione," 22 August 1384; and took part in Richard Il's only expedition to Scotland in 1385.

In May 1390 he and Sir David Lindsay, afterwards 1st Earl of Crawford [SCT], performed a notable feat of arms on London Bridge, where Welles was unhorsed at the third course. He was present at Lowestoft, October 1398, on the embarkation of his brother-in-law, the Duke of Norfolk, who had been banished by Richard II; was summoned, 18 May 1400, to perform homage and fealty to Henry IV, was appointed, 11 May 1402, to proclaim, in Lincolnshire, the King's intention of enforcing law and order; and ordered, 8 September 1403, to stop granting livery and making unlawful assemblies.

John married, (?) 2ndly, before 13 August 1417, Margery. He died 26 August 1421. She died 8 April 1426. [Complete Peerage XII/2:441-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

John married Margaret (Eleanor) Mowbray [13797] [MRIN: 6504], daughter of John Mowbray 4th Lord Mowbray [11422] and Elizabeth de Segrave 5th Baroness Seagrave [11423]. (Margaret (Eleanor) Mowbray [13797] was born in 1364 and died in 1417.)