Nicholas de Segrave

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁴
Nicholas de Segrave, 2nd son of Nicholas, 1st lord of Segrave and brother to John Lord Segrave, is mentioned on 19 Jun1282 in an acknowledgment of a debt due to him; on 19 Feb 1292/3 he was quit of the common summons of the eyre, co. York. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 Jun 1295 to 26 Jan1296/7 by writs directed Nich[ola]o de Segrave juniori, whereby he is held to have become Lord Segrave; and without the word juniori to 25 May 1321. On 12 Feb 1300/1 he appended his seal to the Barons' letter to the Pope as Nicholas de Segrave dominus de Stowe. In that year he was engaged in a dispute as to the manor of Chrishall, Essex, with Walter, Bishop of Coventry; and was accused with his wife of breaking houses of the Earl of Gloucester and Hertford near Kingston, Berks. In 1304/5 he was imprisoned in the Tower on charges arising from the war in Scotland. On 18 Jan 1307/8 he was summoned to attend the Coronation of Edward II; Oct 1307 denounced in Parliament at Northampton as one of the King's bad counsellors. On 12 Mar 1307/8 he was appointed to the office of the Marshalsea of England and thus became Marshal of England. On 12 Mar 1307/8 he was appointed Constable of Northampton Castle. From 21 Jun 1308 he was constantly summoned to perform military service against the Scots; on 15 Jun 1311, to abstain from repairing to Norwich; in Jun 1312 he was engaged in the King's service, and in May 1313 was going beyond seas; 10 Mar 1313/14, with John de Hastings and John de Crumbewell appointed to assist the Justices on eyre in co. Northampton against armed attacks; 14 Mar 1314/5 to 7 Oct1315, surrendered farm of Ipswich and castles of Orford and Northampton. From 1317 he was an adherent of the Earl of Lancaster, in whose company he was with the King, 22 Sep 1318, to repel the invasion of the Scots; and as his adherent he was pardoned by consent of Parliament on 22 Oct 1318 for all felonies and trespasses to 7 Aug last past. On 26 Feb 1317/8, granted free warren at Chrishall and Haydon, Essex; 18 Dec 1319, in a commission for co. Northampton. On 21 Apr 1321 he was ordered to co-operate in appeasing disturbances and to refrain from attending illegal assemblies. He was empowered, 19 Jan 1320/1, with W. Aichbishop of York and others, to treat for peace with Robert de Brus. On 12 Nov 1321 he was forbidden to attend the meeting of "Good Peers." He married Alice*, who apparently predeceased him. He died 25 November 1321.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XI, pp. 610-611

According to A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2, pp. 112-119, Alice was Alice de Armenters, widow of Gerard de Lisle. ¹¹¹⁶

Nicholas married Alice de Armenters, daughter of Geoffrey de Armenters and Daughter of Peter Picot. (Alice de Armenters was born in Stowe Nine Churches, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England and died Afterh 1290 in England ¹⁴¹.)