John de Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun of Dunster

Primary Sources

Inquisitions Post Mortem for John de Mohun or de Mohoun. Writ, 31 August, 4 Edward III [1330]. His death date is not recorded. He died before the 31 August 1330 (date of writ). John, son of John de Mohoun his son, aged 10 years, was his heir.

Greywelle.
The manor sometime belonged to a certain Reginald de Mohun, to him and his heirs in fee, who gave it to William, his younger son, and the heirs of his body. The said William had two daughters, viz.—Mary and Eleanor; Eleanor was espoused to one John de Carru and they had a son, Nicholas, who died without issue. The other daughter Mary was espoused to John de Meryet, and had a son Henry, who died without issue. Through such failure of issue, the manor ought to revert to one John de Mohun as kinsman and heir of the said Reginald. From the said Reginald the right of reversion of the said manor descended to John his son and heir, and from him to John his son, and from the said John son of John son of John to John his son and heir who now claims; he is aged 40 years and more. Note: this age is out by 18 years.

Source: Southampton inquisition for John Meriet 1327.

Biography

MOHUN, JOHN de (1270?–1330), baron, lord of Dunster in Somerset, son of John de Mohun, (the grandson of Reginald de Mohun) [q.v.] and Eleanor Fitzpiers, was about nine years old at his father's death in 1279, and was a ward of Edward I (Lyte, p. 16). He received many summonses to perform military service as in 1297 to serve in Flanders, in 1299 to join the muster at Carlisle, which was afterwards put off and held at York on 12 Nov., and again in 1300 to serve against the Scots. At the parliament held at Lincoln in January 1301 he joined in the letter of the barons to the pope, and is therein described as 'dominus de Dunsterre' (Fœdera, i. ii. 926). He was summoned to the muster at Berwick on 24 June, and again to the muster to be held at Berwick on 25 May 1303. He was at Perth early in 1304, for he dined there with the Prince of Wales on Candlemas day. He was a conservator of the peace for the county of Somerset in 1307, and in 1308 and 1309 was summoned to do service against the Scots. In 1311 he held a commission as one of the king's justices. He joined the party of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and was concerned in the execution of Gaveston, for which he received a pardon in 1313 (ib. ii. i. 231). Summonses were sent to him to serve against the Scots in 1315, 1316, and 1319. In 1321 he was warned to abstain from the parliament that the Earl of Lancaster designed to hold at Doncaster (ib. pp. 442, 459). He gave charters to the priories of Dunster and Bruton, and to the townsmen of Dunster (Lyte). Certain lands in Ireland [see under Mohun, Reginald de] he exchanged with the king for the manor of Long Compton in Warwickshire (ib.; Fœdera, i. ii. 949). He died in 1330.

He married first Ada, daughter of Robert, or Payn, Tiptoft, by whom he had seven sons and a daughter, and secondly a wife named Sybilla (Lyte). From Sir Reginald, his fifth son, descended the Mohuns of Cornwall, of which house were the Mohuns, barons of Okehampton (ib. p. 37). His eldest son, John, was a knight-banneret, was present at the battle of Boroughbridge, and, dying in Scotland perhaps in 1322, was, it is said, buried in the church of the Grey Friars at York (ib.; Parliamentary Writs, ii. iii. 1177); he married Christian, daughter of Sir John Segrave, by whom he had a son, John (1320–1376) [q. v.], who succeeded his grandfather (Lyte).

[Lyte's Dunster and its Lords, privately printed, and largely from papers in the Archaeological Journal, contains full information, with references, concerning John and the house of Mohun generally; Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 498; Cal. of Docs., Scotland, ii. No. 1516 (Rolls Ser.); Prynne's Parliamentary Writs, i. 740, ii. iii. 1176, 1177; Rymer's Fœdera, i. ii. ii. i. passim.]

Source: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38

See also: wikipedia.org - Mohuns Ottery

John was 10 years old when his farther died. John himself died in 1330 and was buried at Dunster Priory, Somersetshire, England. He was indicated to being indication as a Knight of the Garter in 1348, and was given the title of 2nd Baron of Dunster.
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John de Mohun III
BIRTH 1269
Dunster, West Somerset District, Somerset, England
DEATH 25 Aug 1330 (aged 60–61)
Dunster, West Somerset District, Somerset, England
BURIAL
Priory Churchyard of St. George
Dunster, West Somerset District, Somerset, England
PLOT
north side of the chancel
MEMORIAL ID 130757459

Family Members
Parents
John de Mohun
1249–1279

Spouse
Ada de Tibetot de Mohun
1275–1324

Children
Reginald De Mohun
1303–1347