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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MARGERY DE POYNINGS, married (1st) before 1326 (date of settlement) (as his 3rd wife) EDMUND BACON, Knt., of Oulton, Suffolk, Hatfield Peverel and Gynge Mounteney, Essex, Gresham, Norfolk, Ewelme, Oxfordshire, etc., Knight of the Household, Keeper of Wallingford Castle and Honour, 1311, allegedly son of Robert Bacon, of Baconsthorpe, by daughter of Robert de Hingham, Knt. They had one daughter, Margery. He married (1st) JOAN DE BEAUMONT, widow of Giles de Brewes, Knt. [see CALTHORPE 9], by which marriage he had one daughter, Margaret (wife of William de Kerdeston, Knt., 2nd Lord Kerdeston [see GANT 8]). He married (2nd) ELIZABETH LA WARRE, daughter of John la Warre, Knt., 2nd Lord la Warre, by Joan, daughter of Robert de Grelle (or Grelley), Knt. [see LA WARRE 12 for her ancestry]; she died testate in 1323. He performed military service in Gascony in 1297. The same year he was enfeoffed of the manor of Ewelme, Oxfordshire by his brother, John Bacon. In 1303 he served in Scotland with John de Saint John, Knt. He was present at the Siege of Stirling Castle in 1304. In 1308 he was granted the escheated lands of Robert de Stuteville in Gresham, Norfolk. The same year he and his brother, John Bacon, obtained a license to empark their wood at Gynge Mounteney, Essex. In 1309 he was granted the reversion of the manor of Hatfield Peverel, Essex. He was in the service of Peter de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall in 1310. In 1314 he accompanied Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester in Queen Isabel's retinue on an embassy concerning Gascony. The same year he also went on a pilgrimage to Santiago. In 1316 he went to Wales on the king's service. In 1320 he accompanied Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent on an embassy to France. He was on the king's service in Wales with Earl Edmund in 1322. In August 1322 he accompanied Edmund, Earl of Arundel on the Scottish campaign. In 1324 he again went on an embassy with Edmund, Earl of Kent. In 1325 he was sent on an embassy to Jaime, King of Aragon, concerning the proposed marriage between the future Edward III and the Infanta Jolant. The same year he fought in Gascony in the War of Saint-Sardos. In 1326, when Queen Isabel's invasion was threatened, he was empowered to arrest shipping in various Norfolk ports and to superintend the sailing of other vessels to Orwell. In 1334 he was appointed Keeper of the Half Hundred of Lothingland in Suffolk for a year. SIR EDMUND BACON died 6 March 1336. His widow, Margery, married (2nd) before 1337 NICHOLAS DE LA BECHE, Knt., of Beaumys (in Swallowfield), Beche, Binfield, Burghfield, Basildon, Cookham, East and West Compton, Berkshire, Constable of the Tower. They had no issue. SIR NICHOLAS DE LA BECHE died shortly before 1 March 1345. On 30 March 1347 his widow, Margery, was forcibly carried off and married to JOHN DE DALTON, Knt., of Bispham, Lancashire, King's Serjeant-at-arms, son and heir of Robert de Dalton. He fought at the Battle of Crecy in 1346. On 1 May 1347 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. In October 1348 his lands were declared forfeited. She died in Calais 20 March 1349. SIR JOHN DE DALTON died in 1369.
Coll. Top. et Gen. 4 (1837): 391 (arms of Sir Edmund Bacon). Hardy Syllabus (in English) of the Dors. Rel. England & Other Kingdoms 1(1869): 355. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 275. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14 (1893): 71-72. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 82, 187. Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 39, 101, 110, 29. Russell Swallowfield & its Owners (1901): 39-43. VCH Lancaster 4 (1911): 91-97, 97-101; 6 (1911): 100-102. CFR. 2 (1912): 118, 136; 4 (1913): 391, 479, 481-482, 485-486; 5 (1915): 424. Feet of Fines for Essex 2 (1913-28): 110, 111, 171, 228. English Hist. Rev. 37 (1922): 273-274; 74 (1959): 70-89. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 3 (1925): 330. Sussex Notes & Oueries 4 (1932): 97-98. VCH Sussex 9 (1937): 139. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 4-16. Hockey Reg. of William Edington Bishop of Winchester 1346-13662 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 8) (1987): 9 (In the early hours of Good Friday, 1347 "shamelessly, with boats and ladders they carried off the noble lady Margaret, widow of Nicholas de la Beche, knight, dragging her from her bedroom to the hall, carrying her half-naked, with the intention of joining her in matrimony to a certain John de Dalton." The perpetrators were "deaf to the oath that she swore" she was contracted to marry Gerard de Lisle. "They carried her off as she shouted and raised a hue and cry in the countryside, and took her to somewhere remote, where she is still detained against the king's peace." "In their violent entry into the manor, they fought those who were trying to prevent the abduction and shamefully killed Michael de Ponynges, uterine brother of Margaret."). Richmond Pastan Fam. in the 1515 Cent. (1990): 47-49. Brault Rolls of Aims Edward I 2 (1997): 23 (arms of Edmund Bacon: Gules, on a chief argent two mullets sable). Trans. Monumental Brass Soc. 16 (1997): 2-25. Dunn Damsels in Distress or Partners in Crime? (2007): 158-159.â€
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