John Mautravers

Abt 1290 - 1364  (~ 74 years)

• Name	John Mautravers
  Birth	Abt 1290	of Lytchett Mautravers, Dorset, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Feb 1364  [1, 2]
  Alternate death	16 Feb 1365  [3]
  Burial	Lytchett Mautravers, Dorset, England   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I19225	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	John Mautravers,   b. 1266, of Lytchett Mautravers, Dorset, England d. Aft 1341 (Age > 76 years)
  Mother	Eleanor de Gorges   d. Aft 1291
  Family ID	F11611	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Milicent de Berkeley   d. Aft 1321
  Marriage	Abt 1313  [1]
  Children	+ 1. John Mautravers   d. 22 Jan 1349
  Family ID	F11609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Agnes de Bereford   d. 18 Jul 1375
  Marriage	Bef 26 Feb 1331  [1, 4]
  Family ID	F23168	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2023

  
  

• Notes

  He was knighted, along with his father, on 22 May 1306. He is said to have been taken prisoner at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. He was knight of the shire for Dorset in 1318. He was present at the battle of Boroughbridge on 16 Mar 1322, and went overseas following the execution of Thomas of Lancaster. By then he had clearly allied himself with the opponent of Edward II. He appears to have returned to England along with Mortimer and Isabella in October 1326. On 3 April 1327, along with his brother-in-law Thomas de Berkeley, he was appointed one of the keepers of the deposed and imprisoned king. In the 1330s, the chronicler Adam Murimuth (d. 1347) said that Edward was killed on the orders of Mautravers and Thomas Gourney, but later historians doubt this. Notwithstanding, Mautravers and Berkeley were in charge of Edward II's body (or, possibly, the body represented as being that of Edward II) until its burial on 21 Oct 1327. Later years were difficult. He shared in the downfall of Mortimer and Isabella. In November 1330 he was condemned to death as a traitor for his part in the death of the late king's brother Edmund of Woodstock, but he escaped to Germany. He made a fortune in Flanders and then lost it. He was ultimately pardoned by Edward III and final restitution of his titles and lands was made in 1352. He held various reponsible offices in his old age, including Governor of the Channel Islands in 1351.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S1209] Outline of the History of the Argentein Family by Chris Phillips., year only. [S7051] G.S.S., "Pedigree of Mautravers." Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 4:334, 1840. [S7051] G.S.S., "Pedigree of Mautravers." Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 4:334, 1840., says "1329".