Individual Details

John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles

(1352 - 8 Apr 1426)

According to Wikipedia:

John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles (1352-1421) was an English soldier and noble. The son of John de Welles, 4th Baron Welles and Maud de Ros. He married Eleanor de Mowbray, daughter of John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray, and Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave.[1]

He was summoned to parliament between 20 January 1376 and 26 February 1421.[2]

At a banquet in Edinburgh and presumably after too much alcohol he issued, as Champion of England, the following challenge to David Lindsay (later 1st Earl of Crawford): “Let words have no place; if ye know not the Chivalry and Valiant deeds of Englishmen; appoint me a day and a place where ye list, and ye shall have experience.”[1] As a result of the challenge, on St George’s Day, 23 April 1390,[3] he fought David Lindsay in mock combat on horseback on London Bridge, losing the match by falling from his horse in their third charge against each other.

He was the father of:[4]

Thomas de Welles (1380-1411) who predeceased his father. He married Cecilia Aston and had a son:
John de Wells (1407-) (Joshua Keijsers was one of the many thousands of descendants of John)
Joan de Welles (1382-1409)
Eudo de Welles (1387-1417), who predeceased his father. He married Maud Greystoke, daughter of Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke and Katherine Clifford.[2] by whom he had a son and daughter:
Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles.[2]
Sir William Welles, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, married to Anne Barnewall, daughter of Sir Christopher Barnewall, and had issue including Elizabeth, Lady Slane and Ismay, Lady Navan;
Eleanor de Welles (1390-1458) who married Hugh de Poynings, son of Thomas Poynings, 3rd Baron Poynings and Joan ..., and had issue
See also
Crawford Castle for additional details of challenge
Notes
See p. 700-709 of Ancient Ancestors with Modern Descendants, 7th Ed., by Ronald Wells
Sir Bernard Burke (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison. p. 569.
See p. 400-409 of Ancient Ancestors with Modern Descendants, 7th Ed., by Ronald Wells
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Events

Birth1352
MarriageBef 1386Eleanor de Mowbray
Death8 Apr 1426

Families

SpouseEleanor de Mowbray (1361 - 1417)
ChildEudes Welles ( - 1417)
FatherJohn de Welles, 4th Baron Welles ( - 1361)
MotherMaud de Ros ( - 1388)
SiblingAnne Wells ( - )