Gilbert de Segrave 3rd Baron of Segrave

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸⁴⁴
Gilbert de Segrave, judge, was second son of Stephen de Segrave by Rohesia, daughter of Thomas Despencer. His elder brother died in thier father's life time, so he succeeded to the family estates in Leicestershire in 1241. He had a grant in 1231 of Kegworth in Leicestshire, and soon after was made governor of Bolsover Castle. He was appointed justice of the forests south of the Trent in 1242 [Ròles Gascons, i. 104) and governor of Kenilworth Castle. In 1251, he was one of the justices to hear pleas in London, but was not noticed as a judge after Jan 1252. In 1253, he accompanied the king to Gascony [ib. i 2131, 219, 2199, 2620]. In Jan 1252, he was sent home by the king as one of his messengers to ask for money from parliament [Matt. Paris, v. 432]. Afterwards he rejoined the king, and was in Gascony on 16 Jun, and at Bordeaux as late as 7 Sep [Ròles Gascons, i. 3792, 4012] He obtained a safe-conduct from Louis IX, he started home through Poitou in the company of John de Plessis, earl of Warwick, and other nobles. The party was seized by the citizens of Pons in Poitou, where Gilbert de Segrave fell ill and died in prison before 8 Oct [cf. if. i 3487] On 12 Oct 1254, his warships were granted to the king's son Edward.

He married Amabilia, daughter and heiress of Robert de Chaucumb [Excerpt. e Rot. Finium, i 462]. They had a son, Nicholas de Segrave, first baron of Segrave and a daughter, Alice, wife of William Mauduit, earl of Warwick.

~The Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 17, pp. 1136-1137

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Gilbert de Segrave, 2^nd but 1st surviving son and heir (*1), on 4 Dec 1232 was given the custody of the castle and manor of Newcastle-under-Lyme and on 5 Feb1232/3 of Bolsover Castle. He served in Brittany before 16 Mar I232/3. On 19 Aug 1233 he was granted the manor and soke of Horricastle for his maintenance in the King's service; on 2 Nov 1233 he was appointed, with another, to go to the parts of Berkeley to keep the peace and passes and passages; and on 10 Nov 1233, with John de Stutevill, to escort the fortieth of Cambs and Hunts from Northampton to Gloucester. On 27 Nov1233 he was granted the land of the Earl Richard Marshal in Burton, co. Northampton, for his maintenance in the King's service. On 25 May 1234 he was ordered to send 2 knights at his own cost to the King at Portsmouth. On 26 Oct 1241, as son and heir of Stephen de Segrave, he was pardoned his relief in Huntingdon, Northampton, Derby, Warwick and Leicester, and Worcester, for Stephen's faithful service to the King. On 18 Jul 1242 he was appointed Justice of the forest this side Trent; in Easter term 1251 he was sitting as third judge in the King's Bench; and on 30 Aug 1251 he was appointed as judge to sit at Tower of London on 30 Sep. He became surety for 500 marks for Edward the King's son against the Earl of Leicester before 3 Feb 1252/3. In 1253-54 he was with the King in Gascony; and in 1253 he was sitting in the King's Bench at St. Macaire, Gironde. On 25 Aug 1254 he had letters of credence to go to the King of Scotland with Simon Earl of Leicester.

Gilbert de Segrave married, before 30 Sep 1231, Amabil, daughter and coheir of Robert de Chaucombe, of Chalcombe, Northants. He died before 8 October 1254. at Pons in Poitou. His widow married, 2ndly, Roger de Somery. She was buried at Chaucombe Priory.

(*1) John de Segrave, eldest son of Stephen de Segrave, m. Emma, daughter and heir of Roger de Cauz and d. v.p. before Easter term 1229. In 1230 Stephen made fine to have Emma's marriage.

~Cokayne's The Complete Peerage, Vol. XI, pp. 601-602, Vol. XIV, p. 586

Gilbert married Amabil de Chaucombe, daughter of Robert de Chaucombe and Juliana de Cornhill ^141,844,1021 (Amabil de Chaucombe was buried in Chaucombe Priory, ¹⁴¹.)