Jordan Foliot

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir Jordon Foliot, of Gressenhall, Elsing, East Lexham, and Weasenham, Norfolk, Norton, Fenwick, Moseley, and Cowesby, co. York, Grimston and Wellow, Notts, son and heir of Sir Richard Foliot, of Norton, Fenwick, Grimston, and Wellow (who died in Mar. 1299), by Margery, sister and in her issue heir of Sir Robert d'Estuteville, of Gressenhall, Elsing, East Lexham, Weasenham, and Cowesby, and daughter of Sir William d'Estuteville, of the same. He was about to go to Wales on the King's service in July 1277, and was ordered to join the Army of Scotland under the Earl of Surrey, 24 Sep1297. He was summoned for Military Service from 12 Dec 1276 to 30 Mar 1298, to attend the King at Salisbury, 26 Jan 1296/7, to a Military Council, 16 Sep 1297, and to Parliament from 24 Jun 1295 to 2 Nov 1295, by writs directed Jordano Foliot or Folyot, whereby he is held to have become Lord Foliot.

Sir Jordon Foliot married Margery, daughter of Sir Adam de Neumarche, of Womersley, Campsall, Bentley, &c., co. York. He died shortly before 2 May 1299, aged 50 and more. His widow had livery of the manors of Grimston and Wellow, of which she and her husband had been jointly enfeoffed, 17 Sep 1299. She obtained, for a similar reason, the manors of Norton and Fenwick, and held the manors of Elsing and East Lexham, in dower. She died 18 April 1330, and was buried in Wendling Abbey.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, pp. 538-540

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁶²
Cowesby Manor - The tenancy in demesne in the 12th century belonged to Osmund, a member of a younger branch of the family of Stutevill and the first Stutevill of Gressenhall, Norfolk, who is generally supposed to have been a younger brother of Robert de Stutevill and grandson of the earlier Robert. He died before 1199 in possession of Cowesby. His widow Isabel, who married William de Huntingfield, successfully claimed dower in his Yorkshire lands against William de Stutevill, Osmund's son and heir. William de Stutevill died in 1259, and was succeeded by a son and heir Robert, whose nephew and heir Jordan Foliot succeeded him before 1275 and held the vill in 1284-5. Jordan Foliot died in 1299. His son and heir Richard, then aged fifteen, seems to have died young, and to have been succeeded by another Richard, his son, who never attained his majority. The manor was in the hands of Sir Amphorus de Vere until Richard died in or about 1325, when his heirs were his two sisters Margery and Margaret, of twelve and eleven years of age respectively. The wardship of the co-heirs was purchased by Isabel de Hastings and Ralph de Camoys. Isabel married Margery to her son Hugh and Margaret was married to John Camoys son of Ralph.

~A History of the County of York North Riding, Vol. II, pp. 5-7

Jordan married Margery de Neumarche, daughter of Sir Adam de Neumarche Knight and Unknown.¹⁴¹ (Margery de Neumarche was born about 1226 in Womersley, Pontefract, West Riding Yorkshire, England, died on 18 Apr 1330 in England ¹⁴¹ and was buried in Wendling Abbey ¹⁴¹.)