Lowdham Nottinghamshire
" ION DE LOVDHAM GIT ICI, DE SA ALME DEUS YET MERCI"
Sir John de Lowdham / Loudham c1269-1318
Sir John was returned as holding a quarter of a knight’s fee in Lowdham in 1302/3. He had the king’s protection on going over seas in the company of Roger de Monthermer in 1313.
Dying in 1318, his Inquisition post mortem held in August 1318 shows that he held a capital messuage in Lowdham of the
Prior of Shelford
He was the son of Walter Loudham and Joan daughter of Nicholas de Tregoze and Eve daughter of Sir Gilbert Pecche, Baron of Bourne
He m Alice d1344 flic.kr/p/HTCcBf daughter of Sir Robert De Kirkton and Beatrix / Beatrice daughter of Simon de Driby, Sir and Alice Fitzhugh
Children
1. Joan 1301-1365 flic.kr/p/JPMiqP m Geoffrey de Staunton 1297-1369 son of William Staunton and Joan: & grandson of William Staunton 1326 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6e1R96
2. John de Loudham c1308-1346 who fought at Crecy 1346 (and perhaps died as a result ) m Isabel heiress of Rodger le Bretton of Walton Derbyshire (parents of Thomas de Lowdham 1346-1400)
3. Robert 1308-1348
3. Isabel b1315 m Thomas Bekering / Bekeryng of Tuxford
His effigy was previously set into the floor www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3Y2f44 with an iron guard of the lower half www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0468yt , and is now raised off the floor on a modern base,
He wears chain mail with caps on the knees. Female figures (nuns? or his widow? www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/M659p7 ) read from books at his head, at his feet crouches a lion and another male figure (a monk?) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3t90f6 His legs are crossed, the lower right leg has been cut away. On his head is a round topped cerveliêre under the mail is secured by an ornamental fillet of five-petalled roses.which hangs over the surcoat in front. The hands are joined in prayer, and the wrists are secured with straps. The long tag of the girdle which confines the surcoat hangs down the right side. The hauberk is slit up the front, and shows beneath it the lower edge of the quilted gambeson. The knee-caps are ridged down the front, . the sword-belt is ornamented with transverse bars and studs of metal. The shield bears the arms of Lowdham, argent a bend azure crusily or. The spurs are of the roweled or prick variety but do have very long shanks.
www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/results?lastName=de+... - Church of St Mary, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire
Picture with thanks - southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/lowdham/hintro.php
Lowdham Nottinghamshire
" ION DE LOVDHAM GIT ICI, DE SA ALME DEUS YET MERCI"
Sir John de Lowdham / Loudham c1269-1318
Sir John was returned as holding a quarter of a knight’s fee in Lowdham in 1302/3. He had the king’s protection on going over seas in the company of Roger de Monthermer in 1313.
Dying in 1318, his Inquisition post mortem held in August 1318 shows that he held a capital messuage in Lowdham of the
Prior of Shelford
He was the son of Walter Loudham and Joan daughter of Nicholas de Tregoze and Eve daughter of Sir Gilbert Pecche, Baron of Bourne
He m Alice d1344 flic.kr/p/HTCcBf daughter of Sir Robert De Kirkton and Beatrix / Beatrice daughter of Simon de Driby, Sir and Alice Fitzhugh
Children
1. Joan 1301-1365 flic.kr/p/JPMiqP m Geoffrey de Staunton 1297-1369 son of William Staunton and Joan: & grandson of William Staunton 1326 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/6e1R96
2. John de Loudham c1308-1346 who fought at Crecy 1346 (and perhaps died as a result ) m Isabel heiress of Rodger le Bretton of Walton Derbyshire (parents of Thomas de Lowdham 1346-1400)
3. Robert 1308-1348
3. Isabel b1315 m Thomas Bekering / Bekeryng of Tuxford
His effigy was previously set into the floor www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3Y2f44 with an iron guard of the lower half www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0468yt , and is now raised off the floor on a modern base,
He wears chain mail with caps on the knees. Female figures (nuns? or his widow? www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/M659p7 ) read from books at his head, at his feet crouches a lion and another male figure (a monk?) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3t90f6 His legs are crossed, the lower right leg has been cut away. On his head is a round topped cerveliêre under the mail is secured by an ornamental fillet of five-petalled roses.which hangs over the surcoat in front. The hands are joined in prayer, and the wrists are secured with straps. The long tag of the girdle which confines the surcoat hangs down the right side. The hauberk is slit up the front, and shows beneath it the lower edge of the quilted gambeson. The knee-caps are ridged down the front, . the sword-belt is ornamented with transverse bars and studs of metal. The shield bears the arms of Lowdham, argent a bend azure crusily or. The spurs are of the roweled or prick variety but do have very long shanks.
www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/results?lastName=de+... - Church of St Mary, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire
Picture with thanks - southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/lowdham/hintro.php