Philip Marmion

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁰²⁵
By 1185 Geoffrey Marmion had already made a grant to the Templars from his land in Middleton. [Beatrice Lees, Records of the Templars in England, 31] In 1220 Philippa widow of Robert Marmion was claiming dower in Middleton from her son Robert 'senior'. [Pat. R. 1216-25, pp. 306, 307] He had already committed the lands to the Bishop of Winchester, who promised to satisfy her. [Pat. R. 1216\endash 25, p. 307] This Robert Marmion died in 1241 or 1242 and was succeeded by his son Philip, [Dugdale, Baronage, i, 376] who in May 1259 leased what is here first called the manor of Middleton to the Prior and Convent of Studley for two years. [Cal. Pat. 1258\endash 66, p. 21] Philip in 1285 successfully claimed a gallows here and view of frankpledge. [Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 780, 781] He died in 1291, and the chief messuage in the manor, with the suit of the town, 2 water-mills, and other lands and rights there were assigned in dower to his widow Mary, [Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, 29 (p. 22); Cal. Close, 1288\endash 96, p. 269] who died in 1313. [Cal. Inq. p.m. v, 482]

Philip left four co-heiresses, his daughters, Joan widow of William de Morteyn, Maud wife of Ralph le Botiler, and Joan Marmion, and his granddaughter Joan wife of Alexander de Freville and daughter of Mazera Marmion and Ralph de Croumbewell. [Ibid. iii, 29; Cal. Fine R. i, 302; Dugd. 1051; Middleton MSS. (Hist. MSS.Com.), 79\endash 81]

~A History of the County of Warwick, Vol. IV, pp. 156-160

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Philip Marmion, 1st son and heir. His marriage was granted to William de Cauntelo for a term of three years, and on 10 December 1239 Philip was granted the lands to hold to him and his heirs by his wife when the term expired. On 7 February 1244 the King took his homage for the share of her father's lands falling to his wife Joan, younger daughter of Hugh de Kilpeck. On 24 January 1248/9 the charters of free warren in co. Warwick and Lindsey, granted to his great-grandfather, Robert Marmion, were ratified by the King. On 20 July 1249 he was appointed Sheriff of cos. Warwick and Leicester, and on 6 February 1251/2 was pardoned for his trespasses during his term of office, paying 8 marks of gold. In 1253 he accompanied the King to Gascony, and his services there produced a settlement of all his arrears while Sheriff and of other debts due to the King. In the following year on his way home to England he was captured with the Earl of Warwick and other nobles at Pons in Poitou. On 20 February 1253/4 he was granted a market and fair at his manor of Pulverbatch, co. Salop, and on 6 May 1259 a market at his manor of Scrivelsby, co. Lincoln, and two days later had confirmation of his lease to Studley Priory for two years of his manors of Middleton, co. Warwick, and Scrivelsby, with his mills of Tamworth.

On 14 March 1257/8 Philip Marmion was summoned to Chester to take part in the expedition against Llewellyn, and on 18 October 1261 to London, and again 25 May 1263 to Worcester to join the force against Llewellyn. On 9 July 1261 he was appointed Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, with the keeping of the castles of Norwich and Orford, holding the shrievalty till 26 February 1261/2 only. On 24 December 1263 he was appointed joint Sheriff of Notts and co. Derby, and in the same month was among those of the King's party who undertook to submit to Louis IX of France the question of the validity of the Provisions of Oxford. On 29 November 1265 he was granted various lands belonging to adherents of Simon de Montfort in cos. Lincoln, Northampton, Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and York. On 26 September 1266 the King's demesnes of Tamworth and Wigginton were committed to him for life) and nine years later, in 1275, it was alleged that he had subverted the estate of the men of both manors, and did not allow them to enjoy their custornst. On 7 October 1266 power was given to him and two others to treat of peace with those who stood against the King and would submit. In circa 1269-70 he purchased land in St. Swithun's Str., London, and on 3 May 1273 leased his houses there, reserving the right of residing therein when he should come to London.

In 1281, when Philip Marmion established his right to various privileges before the justices itinerant at Lincoln, the jurors said that he and all his ancestors had had a gallows (furcas et infangenethef) for the manor of Scrivelsby from time immemorial. On 2 May 1283 he granted the hospital of St. James, Tamworth, to a certain chaplain, to be held until his proposed Premonstratensian house by Tamworth should be founded. On 20 April 1290 he had letters patent for nominating attorneys on account of his debility.

Philip Marmion married, 1stly, Joan, younger daughter of Hugh de Kilpeck.

Philip Marmion married, 2^ndly, Mary, who survived him. He died before 5 December 1291, when the escheator was ordered to take his lands into the King's hand. His widow's dower was assigned 20 July 1292. She died before 26 September 1313.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, pp. 510-512

By his 1^st wife, Joan de Kilpeck, Philip Marmion had 3 daughters:
(1) Joan. She m. William de Morteyn and dsp. before 13 Aug 1205.
(2) Mazera, who predeceased her father. She m. Ralph de Cromwell, and had issue, a daughter Joan, who m. Alexander de Freville.
(3) Maud. She m. Ralph le Butler.

By his 2nd wife, Mary, Philip Marmion had a daughter Joan. She m. 1stly Thomas de Ludlow. Philips Marmion also had an illegitimate son Robert, whom he m. to Isabel, daughter and heir of Giles, son of Ralph, obtaining thereby the manors of Perry Croft and Glascote, co. Warwick.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, pp. 513-514

Ralph de Cromwell married, 1^stly, Mazere or Macerie, 2^nd daughter and in her issue coheir of Philip Marmion, of Scrivelsby, co. Lincoln, Tamworth, co. Warwick, &c., by his 1^st wife, Joan, 2^nd daughter and coheir of Hugh de Kilpek, of Kilpeck, co. Hereford. Their only child was Joan, who married Alexander de Freville. They were the ancestors of the Frevilles of Tamworth.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 551

Philip married Joan de Kilpeck, daughter of Hugh de Kilpeck and Egidia.¹⁴¹ (Joan de Kilpeck was born about 1210 in Kilpeck Castle, Herefortshire, England and died before 1265.)