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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
"Children of Roger de Somery, Knt., by Agnes ___...
ii. JOHN DE SOMERY, Knt., of Dudley (in Sedgley), Mere, Rowley Regis, and Swinford, Staffordshire, Ellesborough and Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, Churchill, Worcestershire, etc., son and heir, born at Weoley (in Northfield), Worcestershire 2 March 1280 (aged 26 or 27 in 1306). He married LUCY DE GREY, daughter of Henry de Grey, Knt., 1st Lord Grey of Codnor, by his 1st wife, Eleanor [see CODNOR 10 for her ancestry]. He was summoned to Carlisle in 1306. He was summoned to Parliament 10 March 1307/8 by writ directed Joh[ann]i de Som[er]y, whereby he is held to have become Lord Somery. He was summoned to treat with the king in 1309. He was summoned to serve against the Scots in 1310, 1314-19, and 1322. In 1311 a complaint was lodged that he had obtained such mastery in Staffordshire that none could obtain law or justice there. In 1313 he was rewarded for good service in Scotland. In 1313-14 he obtained license to grant half the manor of Walsall, Staffordshire to Ralph Basset, of Drayton, Staffordshire, he retaining Dudley castle and its members. In 1314 he was to be paid his expenses for going to France with the king in the previous year, and for expenses for the current year. In 1316 he was one of the chief men of the Welsh Marches. In 1318 he was about to go to Wales. In 1321 he was granted the keeping of the manor and forest of Kinver for life for his good service. In Nov. 1321 he was ordered to attack rebels in cos. Warwick, Leicester, and Stafford. SIR JOHN DE SOMERY, Lord Somery, died 1 August (or more probably 1 July) 1322. In 1324 his widow, Lucy, petitioned the king and council requesting remedy as the keeper of lands in Berkshire detained rent which was due to her from tenements in Basildon, Berkshire that were in the king's hand by the forfeiture of John de la Beebe. She was living in 1325, but was dead before 1342. Leach Hist. of Bradfield College (1900): 15-22. Feudal Aids 5 (1908): 15, 17. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 331-338. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 43-45. C.P. 12(1) (1953): 114-115 (sub Somery). Ellis Cat. of Seals in the PRO. 1(1978): 60 (seal of John de Somery dated 1311-Between two wyverns, a shield of arms: two lions passant.); 2 (1981): 98 (seal of John de Somery dated 1314--A shield of arms: two lions passant; on either side a wyvern; helm above with fan crest.). Coss Heraldg, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England (2002): 61-63 (arms of Sir John de Somery: or, two lions passant azure). Ramparts 13(2) (2002): 5-13; 4(2) (2003): 5-9. National Archives, C 143/97/2 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp)."
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1280 - 1322 (42 years)