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Welles, Lionel de (1406 - 1461)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1406
Death Date: 1461-03-29 (killed at the Battle of Towton)

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Beauchamp, Margaret ( - 1482)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1447-4
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: license to marry 14 April; settlement 20 April. (CP)

Siblings

Male

  • Welles, William de ( - )

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 6th Baron Welles

Titles

  • 6th Baron Welles
    Assumed: 1421-08-26
    Vacated: 1461-03-29
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1457-05-13 (date elected)
    Vacated: 1461-03-29

General Lands Note

Granted seisen of inheritance 1427

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Lincolnshire 1433/4
Privy Councillor, England 1434 -11 -12
Commissioner of Array, Lincolnshire 1435/6
JP, Lincolnshire 1436/7 1444
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Lincolnshire 1437
Lieut, Ireland 1437/8 -2 -12 1441/2 -02
JP, Lincolnshire 1446 1448
JP, Northamptonshire 1448 1450
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, London 1450
Lieut, France 1451 1456 -04 -20
JP, Northamptonshire 1452
JP, Lincolnshire 1452 1460
JP, Northamptonshire 1454
Commissioner of Array, Lincolnshire 1457 1460
JP, Northamptonshire 1458 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Kent 1459/60
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Northamptonshire 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Lincolnshire 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cumberland 1460 -12 -8
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Derbyshire 1460 -12 -8
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Leicestershire 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Nottinghamshire 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Northumberland 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, York 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Nottinghamshire 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Newcastle upon Tyne 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Lincolnshire 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Yorkshire: East Riding 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Yorkshire 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Westmorland 1460
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Warwickshire 1460

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Maxey Castle, Northamptonshire
    Acquired: 1447
    Divested: 1461
    Residence of 2nd wife

Lands

  • Lincolnshire: Well
  • Northumberland

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire Lord Welles' Minstrel
Performance - Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire Lord Welles' Taborer?

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Welles' Minstrel Welles, Lionel de (1406 - 1461) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Welles' Taborer? Welles, Lionel de (1406 - 1461) Musicians 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.