MOELS of North Cadbury
Sir John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels (1269–20 May 1310) feudal baron of a moiety of North Cadbury, Somerset. From 1296 to 1309 Sir John received various summonses from the Crown for military service against the Scots and in Flanders. He was summoned to attend Edward I at Salisbury 24 February 1296/7 and to a military council at Rochester 8 September 1297.
Feudal barony of North Cadbury
In the Domesday Book of 1086 the manor is recorded as held as part of the extensive fiefdom of Turstin FitzRolf, the supposed standard-bearer to William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
Cadbury Castle in Somerset is strongly associated with the Arthurian legend. An Iron Age fort was located on the limestone hill which lies 5 miles north east of Yeovil.
Cadbury Castle is one the oldest known earth castles in England.
In 1297 the Sheriff of Dorset was ordered to provide housing within Sherborne Castle for John and his wife "to live in during the king's pleasure".
His 3rd daughter Johanna de Moels was married to Sir Henry VII de la Pomeray (1291–1327), feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy in Devon
They had 5 sons 1) Henry,2) William,3) Nicholas, 4) John and 5th son Thomas who carried the family line forward when his grandson inherited in 1426
On 6 February 1299 John de Moels (1269ñ1310) was summoned to parliament as the first Baron Moels. He was the second son of Roger de Moels (c.1233-1295) the eldest son and heir of Nicholas de Moels (d.1269), feudal baron of a moiety of North Cadbury, Somerset.
He married Maud de Grey, daughter of Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton (1230ñ1308) and had three sons:
Nicholas de Moels, 2nd Baron Moels (d.1316), who married Margaret Courtenay (d.1349) daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay (d.1292), feudal baron of Okehampton and father of Hugh Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (d.1340). The marriage was without issue.
Roger de Moels, 3rd Baron Moels, who died without male issue in 1316 or 1325.
John de Moels, 4th Baron Moels (d.1337), who married Joan Lovel, daughter of Richard Lovel of Castle Cary, Somerset. He died leaving two daughters, co-heiresses to a moiety of the feudal barony of North Cadbury, the de Moels barony by writ and other lands:
Muriel (d.pre 1362) the eldest married Thomas Courtenay (d.1356/1362), 5th son of Hugh Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1275ñ1340).
Isabel the younger daughter married William de Botreaux (d.1349), of Boscastle, Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall, whose issue was William de Botreaux, 1st Baron Botreaux (1337ñ1391)[1]
On the death of the fourth baron in 1337, the barony fell into abeyance.
John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels (d. 1310)
Nicholas de Moels, 2nd Baron Moels (1289ñ1316)
Roger de Moels, 3rd Baron Moels (1295ñ1316)
John de Moels, 4th Baron Moels (d. 1337) abeyant 1337
Joan daughter of John le Moels 1st wife of Henry Pomeroy circa 1305 - 1328 entail for their 5 sons
connections to Courtenay
Hugh de Courtenay 9th earl of Devon married Agnes St John, daughter of John St John of Basing, Hampshire, by Alice, daughter of Sir Reynold Fitz Peter
They had four sons and two daughters:
John Courtenay (1300ó1349), Prior of Lewes and Abbot of Tavistock.
Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon, who married Margaret de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford by Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.
Robert Courtenay (1309ó1334), of Moreton
Sir Thomas Courtenay (1311 ó c.1362), married Muriel Moels, daughter of Sir John, 4th Lord Moels.
Eleanor Courtenay (c.1309, Wootton, Devon ó c.1330), who married John Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Codnor.
Elizabeth Courtenay (c.1313 ó ?), who married Bartholomew Lisle.
John Moeles to John de Langton, chancellor: request for letters of protection.
Special Collections: Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer. John de Moeles to John de Langton, chancellor: request for letters of protection.
Collection:Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly entitled Special CollectionsDate range: 01 January 1292 - 31 December 1302
John de Moelis, de Moeles, de Meoles or de Moles: Somerset, Devonshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, ...
Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III. John de Moelis, de Moeles, de Meoles or de Moles: Somerset, Devonshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset.
Collection:Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissionsDate range: 25 January 1337 - 24 January 1338 Reference:C 135/52/7Subjects:Landed estates
John de Moeles alias de Mules, de Mueles: Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Devon, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire
Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward II. John de Moeles alias de Mules, de Mueles: Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Devon, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire.
Collection:Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissionsDate range: 08 July 1309 - 07 July 1310 Reference:C 134/15/7Subjects:Landed estates
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C 143/213/9 Description:
John de Inge to retain mills in Diptford and Glas acquired of Alice late the wife of Roger de Moeles for her life. The reversion of the mill in Diptford belongs to John de Moeles, and that of the mill in Glas to Margaret late the wife of Nicholas de Moeles and Reginald de Moeles for their lives, with remainder to the said John and his heirs. Devon.
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Wikitree
JOHN DF MOELS, of Cadbury and Mapperton, co. Somerset; King's Carswell, Diptford, and Langford, co. Devon; Little Berkhampstead, co. Hertford; Over Orton and Stoke Basset, co. Oxford, &c., son and heir of Roger de Moels, of Cadbury, &c..
He was aged 26 and more at his father's death, and on 6 August 1295 did homage and had livery of his father's lands.
He was married in about 1302 in Mapperton, Dorset, to Maud de Grey of Mapperton Bb circa1280 in Wilton, Herefordshire, Dau of John de Grey and Maud Verdun .Sister of Henry Grey, Joan Basset, Iseult Inge and Roger de GreyTheir children were Nicholas de Moels, Roger de Moels, Johanna de la Pomeray and John de Moels
John was summoned for military service against the Scots, and also in Flanders, from 1 March 1295/6 to 30 July 1309; to attend the King at Salisbury, 24 February 1296/7; and to a Military Council at Rochester, 8 September 1297. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 February 1298/9 to 16 June 1311, by writs directed Johanni de Moeles, whereby he is held to have become LORD MOELS. In 1297 the sheriff of Dorset was ordered to deliver to John houses within the castle of Sherborne sufficient for himself and his wife to live in during the King's pleasure. He joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1. In the Parliament at Westminster, 28 February 1304/5, he with others mainperned William de Montagu, who, with Amauri de St. Amand, had been committed to the Tower of London for certain misdeeds. He married, in or before 1302, Maud. He died 20 May 1310. [Complete Peerage IX:5-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
Marshall of the Army -
fought in Scottish Wars. [Ancestral Roots]
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The barony of Wynebald, the "barony of North Cadbury", descended into the family of his Henry de Newmarch (d.1198). Henry had 2 sons, Henry (or possibly William) the eldest who died without issue in 1204, and James (d.1216) who according to Wiffen (1883) married Maud, afterwards wife of Otto FitzWilliam.
James had no son but left 2 co-heiresses, Isabel and Hawise, who being heirs of a tenant-in-chief became wards of the king. The king granted the wardship and marriage of Isabel the elder daughter to John Russell (d.1224) of Kingston Russell, Dorset, who served as household steward. The wardship of Hawise the younger daugheter was granted to John de Boterel, confirmed to the latter by Henry III in 1218, per the Close Rolls.
Russell married-off Isabel to his eldest surviving son Ralph Russell, raising his status of a feudal baron and gave him possession of a moiety of the lands comprising the barony of North Cadbury.
John de Boterel exercised his grant by marrying Hawise and following his death without issue in about 1230 her 2nd marriage was to Nicholas de Moels.
The descendants of both daughters retained all or some of the North Cadbury baronial lands they inherited until the 16th century,
The de Moels moiety passed successively by marriage to the Barons Botreaux (1337),may have been from the same family as Hawise's first husband John de Boterel), Barons Hungerford (1462) and the Barons Hastings in 1468
Isabel de Moels one of the daughters and heirs of John de Moeles and wife of William ...
Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III. Isabel, one of the daughters and heirs of John de Moeles and wife of William de Botreaux, knight: Dorset (proof of age).
Collection:Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissionsDate range: 25 January 1347 - 24 January 1348 Reference:C 135/88/6Subjects:Landed estates
SC 8/16/753 Description:
Petitioners: Thomas de Curteney (Courtenay); Muriel de Curteney (Courtenay) wife of Thomas de Courtenay: William Botriaux (Botreaux); Isabel Botriaux (Botreaux), wife of William Botreaux.
Name(s): de Curteney (Courtenay); de Curteney (Courtenay); Botriaux (Botreaux); Botriaux (Botreaux), Thomas; Muriel; William; Isabel
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The petitioners, on behalf of Muriel [de Curteney] and Isabel [Botriaux], daughters and heirs of John de Moeles, state that John owed the king various debts, to cover which the sheriffs of Somerset, Hampshire and Hertfordshire, by writ of the Exchequer, seized various goods and chattels belonging to John, but that at the suit of John's executors, the king ordered his Chancellor, by a letter under the targe, to send a writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to hand the goods over to the executors, to fulfil the will of the deceased, and to levy the debts from John's terre-tenants, whose lands the petitioners hold, to their great harm.
They request that this letter be repealed as contrary to the Great Charter, and a writ sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to this effect, and that the goods and chattels be delivered to them, or to the executors, under an agreement to satisfy the king for the debts.
Nature of endorsement: Because it is not just that the lands of debtors would be charged while the debtors have goods and chattels from which the debts can be levied, a writ of the Great Seal is to be sent to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer that, if they can find by inquest or in some other manner that the debtor has goods and chattels from which the debt can sufficiently be levied, then they are to levy the debt from the goods and chattels, and not the terre-tenants, notwithstanding the letters under the privy seal, provided that, if the goods and chattels do not suffice, the lands are to be charged in equal portions.
Places mentioned: Somerset; Hampshire; Hertfordshire.
People mentioned: John de Moeles.
Date derivation: CPR 1334-1338, p.501 is dated at Westminster, 27 August 1337, and is the earliest reference to the death of John de Moeles; CPR 1334-1338, p.505 is dated at Westminster, 30 August 1337; CCR 1337-1339, p.180 is dated at Woodstock, 14 September, 1337; CPR 1334-1338, p.535 is dated at the Tower of London, 9 October 1337; CCR 1337-1339, p.312 is dated at Westminster, 3 March 1338. Thus 1338 is the earliest date for this petition, but as Thomas de Ferariis, who had custody of Isabel's lands during her minority, is not mentioned, it is much more probably after she comes of age in 1347 (CCR 1346-1349 p.298 is dated at Reading, 6 July 1347). But as CCR 1360-1364 p.160 (an order to the escheator to deliver his lands to William, son and heir of William de Botriaux, dated at Westminster, 15 February 1361) makes clear, Isabel is dead by that date.
Note: CPR 1334-1338, p.501 is dated at Westminster, 27 August 1337, and is the earliest reference to the death of John de Moeles; CPR 1334-1338, p.505 is dated at Westminster, 30 August 1337; CCR 1337-1339, p.180 is dated at Woodstock, 14 September, 1337; CPR 1334-1338, p.535 is dated at the Tower of London, 9 October 1337; CCR 1337-1339, p.312 is dated at Westminster, 3 March 1338.
Thus 1338 is the earliest date for this petition, but as Thomas de Ferariis, who had custody of Isabel's lands during her minority, is not mentioned, it is much more probably after she comes of age in 1347 (CCR 1346-1349 p.298 is dated at Reading, 6 July 1347). But as CCR 1360-1364 p.160 (an order to the escheator to deliver his lands to William, son and heir of William de Botriaux, dated at Westminster, 15 February 1361) makes clear, Isabel is dead by that date.Date: 1338-1361Held by: The National Archives, KewFormer references: in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 1547
Legal status: Public Record Language: French
John, Lord Moels, brother and heir. On 18 July 1316 Richard Lovel was granted the wardship of two parts of the lands late of Nicholas, John's brother, until the full age of John.
Having proved his age and done homage, he had livery of the lands of Roger de Moels, his brother, 17 Sep 1325. He was ceremoniously knighted Jan 1326/7. On 5 May 1328 he had licence to grant to Margaret de Moels (his brother's widow), for life, a moiety of the manor of Diptford and the hundred of Stanborough, Devon, in exchange for a grant of her interest in the manor of Little Berkhampstead. He was a justice of the peace in 1329. On 7 May 1331 the escheator was ordered to take the lands of John de Moels, knight, into the King's hand because he had gone outside the realm without licence, contrary to the proclamation. He was granted the marriage of Elizabeth, late the wife of Edmund de Mortimer, 7 July 1333, but did not marry her. On 21 Nov 1335 he had protection, being about to go beyond seas. He was never summoned to Parliament. He married Joan, daughter of Richard 1st Lord Lovel [of Castle Cary] by Muriel, daughter and heir of Sir John de Soules. He died s..p.m., before 21 August 1337. On 1 September 1337 custody of his lands was granted to Thomas de Ferrars and Thcobald de Mounteney. At his death the Barony of Moels is held, according to modern doctrine, to have fallen into abeyance between his two daughters and coheirs, who were both born in Dorset.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, pp. 7-8
John married Joan Lovel, daughter of Sir Richard Lovel Knight and Muriel de Soules. 141(Joan Lovel was born about 1304 in Castle Cary, North Cadbury, Somerset, England.)