John Marmion, 4th Baron Marmion of Winteringham
member of the Parliament of England
Sir John Marmion, Baron Marmion of Winteringham was an Anglo-Norman baron who represented Lincolnshire in Parliament and fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Ancestry
Marmion was the son and heir of John Marmion, Baron Marmion of Winteringham and Isabella and was born around 1292.
Career and life
Marmion was an adherent of the king's cousin and rival Thomas of Lancaster. On 16 October 1313 Marmion was pardoned for his role in the death of Piers Gaveston. In 1314 an arrest warrant was issued for both Marmion and his father who led a group of dozens of men on a raid upon the Abbot of Fountains Abbey's land at Aldeburgh and Baldersby, Yorkshire. Timber, two hundred sheep, fifty oxen and four carts were stolen and the Abbot's servants suffered kidnapping, beatings, cuts and had their beards plucked out. The Abbot and his monks may not have been entirely innocent having themselves been accused of violent assault in 1307 and of stealing deer in 1316.
In May 1314, Marmion was summoned to serve in Henry Tyes' company at the Battle of Bannockburn. Following the defeat, Robert the Bruce and his armies swept south and Marmion was again summoned to defend the north against the Scots at Berwick-upon-Tweed on 30 June 1314.
Marmion joined John de Mowbray's company in Aymer de Valence's attempt to re-capture Berwick in August 1319 which led to the Battle of Myton and a two-year truce.
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