Sir John Tregoz Knight, Baron Tregoz

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 99:31, Sir John de Tregoz of Eywas Harold, Herefordshire, married to Mabel Fitz Warin. They were the parents of Clarice de Tregoz, Sir John de Tregoz was the son of Robert II de Tregoz and Juliane. ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷⁶⁰
John Tregoz, who doing his homage in 52 Henry III, had livery of his lands; and had such favor from the king, notwithstanding his father's treason, that he was acquitted of fifty marks of the hundred pounds then due for his relief. After which, 10 Edward I, he attened the King in an expedition made into Wales. In 22 Edward I, was in the campaign of Gascony, and he had permission for his wife and family to reside in the castle of Devises, with fuel for fire there. He was subsequently in the Scottish wars. He was summoned to parliament as Baron on 6 Feb & 10 Apr 1299.

His children were:
Clarice, m. Roger de la Warre and left a son, John de la Warre
Sybil, m. Sir William de Grandison, Knight, d. 1300, sized the castle of Ewyas-Harold, with its members in the Marches of Wales, which he held by barony; the manor of Eton-Tregoz, Hereford, and estates in the counties of Wilts, Salop and Northampton. Upon his lordship's decease the Barony of Tregoz fell into Abevance, between his grandson, John de la Warre and his second daughter Sybil de Grandison.

~A General and Heraldict Dictionary of peerages of England, Ireland and Scot.and, Vol. I, pg. 521

• Background Information. ⁸¹⁴
Robert Tregoz had summons to that parliament called by the king's writ to meet in London, 45 Hen III. He afterwards was slain in the battle of Evesham. His son John de Tregoz had summons to parliament in 25 Edward I, and died leaving two daughter and coheirs. Clarice, married Roger de la Warre and Sybil, married Sir William Grandison

~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol I, pg. 435

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
John de Tregoz, baron by writ from 1297-1300, was granted quittance of common summons for Sussex, 1271, and for Herefordshire, 1272, in which counties he alienated lands in 1280 and 1277. He and his wife Mabel were granted free warren in iden and Iham, Sussex, 11 Jun 1271. He was on the King's service in Wales, 1277, 1282, and 1286. He was ordered to aid the royal officials in Wales, 1287 and 1288. Men were recruited from his lands to supply armies against the Welsh in 1294.

On 14 Jun 1286, he was summoned to a military council at Cloucester, and in Jan and Feb 1290/1, he was summoned as a witness in the dispute between the Earlsof Hereford and Gloucester. He served in Scotland, 1292, 1296 and 1297, and in Gascony, 1294.

John was summoned to parliment from 26 Jan 1296/7 or 24 Edward I to 10 Apr 1299 or 27 Edward I, by writs directed to Johanni de
Tregoz, whereby he is held to have become Lord Tregoz. In Mar. 1296/7, he was ordered to aid the sheriff of Hereford in punishing those who disturbed the realm, being also one of the council to advise the King's son, Oct. 1297. He served in the battle of Falkirk, 22 Jul 1298 in battle with Scotland, and then later at Stirling.

John made many grants to Ewyas Harold priory, confirmed grants which had been made to Dore Abbet, Herefordshire, and to Newark, by Guildford, priory, and in Nov 1283, endowed a chapel on the manor of Eaton Tregoz. His first wife was Mabel, the widow of William de Crevequer, and daughter of Sir Fulk FitzWarin, of Whittington, Salop and Alveston, Gloucestershire. she died shortly before 24 May 1297. He married again to Joan, daughter of Adam de Cokefeld, of Fetwell, Norfolk, and Mouton, Suffolk, by his wife Joan. He died shortly before 6 Sep 1300 without male heir. His widow Joan, married a second time, but without a license, before 28 Feb 1300/01, Laurence de Hameldene, and after his death married a third time to William de Beauchamp.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Tregoz), Vol. XIIB, pp. 21-22

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁰⁷
From The Topographer and Genealogists, 1853, Vol. II, p. 130-131:

Sir John Tregoze, Lord Baron Tregoze,only son and heir of Robert Tregoze and his wife Juliana Cantilupe, "did homage and obtained livery of his father's lands 52 Henry III (1268), and stood in such favour with royalty that, notwithstanding his father's treason, he was acquitted of 50 marks of 100l then due for his relief; after which he attended Edward I. into Wales, in the expedition made thither in the early part of his reign.

"By the Plac, de quo warranto, we find John Treooze, in 8 Edward I. summoned to show by what title be claimed wrecks, waifs, and estrays, in his manor of Burneham, in Somersetshire; when he showed that it was the right of his ancestors and no usurpation of the royal prerogative. In the following year he was summoned to show why he claimed free warren in Lydyard Tregoze, in Wilts, without the King's licence; and in 20th Edward I. he received a like summons regarding the manor of Retby in Irchingfield, in Herefordshire, when he answered he held it with Mabelia his wife, and would not show his title without her. In the 20th Edw. I. he was also summoned to prove his title to divers other prerogatives, viz. the correcting the infrinuement of the assize of bread and ale, and the holding Crown Pleas within his manor of Mathuenleye and Eton; when he showed they had been his ancestors' rights immemorially.

"In 13 Edward I. (1284/5) he obtained licence to hold either a fair, or had free warren granted, at the following places, Eton in Herefordshire, Burneham and Cheleworth in Somersetshire, Lydiard and Alinton in Wilts; and in 22nd Edward I. being in the campaign of Gascony, he had permission for his wife and family to reside in Devizes castle, and to have fires there.

"This Baron, during the latter part of his life was summoned to Parliament by writ as one of the Majores Barones; viz. on 26 Jan. 1296, 25th Edw. I. and on 6 Feb. 1299, 27th Edw. I.; and in the year 1300 was summoned to perform military service against the Scotch; but his death prevented it; for he died 21 Aug. 28th Edw. I. (1300), and was buried 12 kal. Sept. 28 Edward I. in the Priory of St. Augustin at Bristol.

"By the two Inq. post mort. made after that event, one in 28th, and the other 29th Edward I., we find that he died seised of an immense inheritance, viz. the castle and honour of Ewyas Harold with its members in the Marches of Wales, which he held by barony, the manor of Eton Tregoze in Herefordshire, and numerous estates in Wilts, Northamptonshire, and Salop, &c.; a mandate to seize for the King the lands of John Tregoze defunct, being issued to Walter de Gloucester in 28th Edward I.

"Long before this John Tregoze had married Mabel, daughter of Foulk Lord Fitzwarren; and this lady owned the manor of Weston in Bedfordshire, and the hamlet of Sturden, in Gloucestersbire, as appears by her Inq. post mortem, made 25th Edward I. (1296-7) she being described in the record as his wife. By her John Lord Tregoze had only two daughters." Eldest daughter, Clarissa Tregoze married Roger la Warre, and predeceased her father, leaving a son and heir, John la Warre, who on the death of John Tregoze, his grandfather, succeeded to Harold Ewyas castle and lordship. The second daughter, Sibilla Tregoze, who was still alive when her father died, married William de Grandison.

John married Mabel Fitz Warine, daughter of Sir Fulk Fitz Warine Knight and Clarice d’Auberville ^141,160.^,1007 (Mabel Fitz Warine was born about 1246 in Alveston, Gloucestershire, England and died in 1297 in England ¹⁶⁰.)