John de Soules

Abt 1250 - Bef 1311  (~ 61 years)

• Name	John de Soules  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1250	of Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1310  [6]
  Death	Bef 4 Jan 1311  [4, 5]
  Person ID	I3517	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Nicholas de Soules   d. Abt 1264
  Mother	Annora de Normanville,   b. of Stamfordham, Northumberland, England
  Family ID	F2004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hawise Fitz Alan
  Children	+ 1. Muriel Soules   d. Feb 1318
  Family ID	F1880	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Oct 2015

  
  

• Notes

  "[A]n architect of the 'Auld Alliance' and in 1301-3 Guardian of Scotland." [Tim Powys-Lybbe] "Sir John de Soules (d. 1310), appears to have inherited the French estates and, holding lands at Westerker (DFS) and Ardross (FIF), the latter in right of his wife, was equally at home in both countries, and is the best known member of the family. He was Guardian of Scotland at a difficult period (1301x04) and paid numerous visits to France as ambassador. His seal bearing Barry of six differenced by a bendlet is regularly found in French seal collections in the period 1295x1301." [Bruce McAndrew, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928. [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. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S775] Powys-Lybbe Ancestry, by Tim Powys-Lybbe. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S2338] Bruce McAndrew, "The Collective Memory in Scottish Heraldry: Fiction, Fact, and Fancy." Foundations 10:62, 2018.