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John du Plessis

Male Bef 1202 - 1263  (> 61 years)


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  • Name John du Plessis 
    Birth Bef 1202  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 25 Feb 1263  [1
    Person ID I1131  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
    Last Modified 6 Jan 2018 

    Family Christian de Saunford,   b. of Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 25 Dec 1242 
    Marriage 1234  [1
    Children 
    +1. Hugh de Plessis,   b. Between 1237 and 1239, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 7 Jul 1292 (Age ~ 55 years)
    Family ID F70  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Sep 2015 

  • Notes 
    • Earl of Warwick.

      "Sir John du Plessis, possibly brother of Hugh, served in Montgomery in 1223, and in the Welsh campaign in 1228. With Hugh he was preparing for the expedition of 1230. He seems soon afterwards to have attained a position of favour at court, which he retained till his death. Sheriff of Oxon 1239-40. He was in close attendance on the King during the campaign in Gascony, May 1242 to August 1243. After his marriage to the Countess of Warwick, he was acknowledged as Earl of Warwick. Constable of the Tower, 24. June 1244, during pleasure. Justice in eyre at the Tower of London, September and October 1251. In 1252 he took the Cross. He was present in May 1253 at the solemn excommunication of all who should break the Charters. In August he sailed with the King for Gascony, returning with him in December 1254. In June 1255 he was relieved of the custody of the Tower. He was then an active member of the Council, and was chosen by the King as one of his representatives on the committee of nominees of the Crown and of the Barons, who were to draw up the reforms known later as the Provisions of Oxford. In 1259 he was one of the Council of three to advise the Justiciar during the King's absence overseas. He was summoned to the muster at Chester, August 1260; and was among the knights summoned to an 'instans parliamentum' in London, February 1260/1; in July Sheriff of cos. Warwick and Leicester, with the custody of Sauvey Castle (Rutland); and in October summoned to London with horses and arms." [Complete Peerage]

  • Sources 
    1. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.