Biography of John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave 1256-1325

Paternal Family Tree: Segrave

Maternal Family Tree: Nichole Cantilupe 1217-1252

1298 Battle of Falkirk

1301 Baron's Letter to the Pope

1303 Battle of Roslyn

1304 Battle of Happrew

In 1256 John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave was born to Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave (age 18) and Maud de Lucy (age 16).

In 1256 [his father] Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave (age 18) and [his mother] Maud de Lucy (age 16) were married.

In 1270 John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 14) and Christiana Plessey Baroness Segrave were married.

In 1282 [his daughter] Ellen or Margaret Segrave Baroness Ferrers Groby was born to John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 26) and [his wife] Christiana Plessey Baroness Segrave.

In 1285 [his son] Stephen Segrave 3rd Baron Segrave was born to John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 29) and [his wife] Christiana Plessey Baroness Segrave at Seagrave, Leicestershire.

On 12 Nov 1295 [his father] Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave (age 57) died at Chaucombe, Northamptonshire. His son John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 39) succeeded 2nd Baron Segrave. [his wife] Christiana Plessey Baroness Segrave by marriage Baroness Segrave.

In 1296 [his son] Hugh Segrave was born to John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 40) at Seagrave, Leicestershire.

Battle of Falkirk

On 22 Jul 1298 King Edward I of England (age 59) defeated the Scottish army led by William Wallace during the Battle of Falkirk at Falkirk [Map] using archers to firstly attack the Scottish shiltrons with the heavy cavalry with infantry completing the defeat.

John de Graham and John Stewart of Bonkyll (age 52) were killed.

The English were described in the Falkirk Roll that lists 111 men with their armorials including:

Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 26).

Walter Beauchamp (age 55).

Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk (age 53).

Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex (age 49).

Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 24).

Hugh "Elder" Despencer 1st Earl Winchester (age 37).

William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 26).

Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley (age 52).

Maurice Berkeley 7th and 2nd Baron Berkeley (age 27).

Henry Grey 1st Baron Grey of Codnor (age 43).

Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton (age 58).

John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Wilton (age 30).

John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster (age 29).

Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 48).

Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 11).

William Ros 1st Baron Ros Helmsley (age 43).

John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 42).

[his brother] Nicholas Segrave (age 42).

Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford (age 41).

Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby (age 30).

Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 20).

Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 17).

John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey (age 67).

Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy (age 25).

Hugh Courtenay 9th Earl Devon (age 21).

Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl of Arundel (age 31).

Henry Beaumont Earl Buchan (age 19).

John Capet II Duke Brittany (age 59).

Philip Darcy (age 40).

Robert Fitzroger.

Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter (age 51), or possiby a Roger Fitzwalter?.

Simon Fraser.

Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 23).

John Wake 1st Baron Wake of Liddell (age 30), and.

Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 47).

William Scrope (age 53) was knighted.

John Moels 1st Baron Moels (age 29) fought.

John Lovell 1st Baron Lovel (age 44) fought.

Baron's Letter to the Pope

Before 09 Mar 1301 seven Earls and 96 Barons signed a letter to the Pope refuting the Pope's claim that Scotland was subject to the Pope's feudal overlordship. The letter was never sent. Those who signed include: John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey (age 70), Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 23), Ralph Monthermer 1st Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (age 31), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 25), Roger Bigod 5th Earl Norfolk (age 56), Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl of Arundel (age 34), Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 29), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 26), William Leybourne 1st Baron Leybourne (age 59), Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster (age 20), William Latimer 1st Baron Latimer of Corby (age 58), Edmund Hastings, John Hastings 2nd Baron Hastings 14th Baron Bergavenny (age 14), Edmund Mortimer 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore (age 50), Fulk Fitzwarin 2nd Baron Fitzwarin (age 16), Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy (age 27), Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter (age 54), John Beauchamp 1st Baron Beauchamp Somerset (age 26), William de Braose 2nd Baron de Braose 10th Baron Bramber (age 41), John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 36), Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton (age 61), John Moels 1st Baron Moels (age 32), Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley (age 55), Robert de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford, John Strange 1st Baron Strange Knockin (age 48), Thomas Multon 1st Baron Multon (age 25), Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 26), Walter Beauchamp (age 58), Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby (age 33), John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 45), William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 29), Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 51), Piers Mauley, Ralph Neville 1st Baron Neville of Raby (age 38), John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster (age 32), Roger Scales 1st Baron Scales, Thomas Furnival 1st Baron Furnivall (age 41), Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf (age 41), Gilbert Talbot 1st Baron Talbot (age 24), William Deincourt 1st Baron Deincourt, Edmund Stafford 1st Baron Stafford (age 28), Walter Fauconberg 1st Baron Fauconberg (age 81).

Around 1302 [his daughter] Christiana Segrave was born to John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 46).

Battle of Roslyn

On 24 Feb 1303 at Roslyn a Scottish force commanded by Simon Fraser and John Comyn 3rd Lord Baddenoch (age 34) ambushed the English army led by John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 47) who was captured and subsequently released.

Battle of Happrew

Around 20 Feb 1304 a chevauchée of English knights including Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 29), William Latimer 2nd Baron Latimer of Corby (age 28), John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster (age 35), John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 48) and the future King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 29) attempted, unsuccessfully, to capture Simon Fraser and William Wallace at Happrew, Peebles during the Battle of Happrew.

Before 04 May 1315 [his son] Stephen Segrave 3rd Baron Segrave (age 30) and [his daughter-in-law] Alice Fitzalan Baroness Segrave were married. She by marriage Baroness Segrave. She the daughter of Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl of Arundel and Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John of England.

In or before 1320 [his son-in-law] John Mohun (age 19) and [his daughter] Christiana Segrave (age 17) were married.

On 04 Oct 1325 John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave (age 69) died at Chacombe Priory [Map]. His son [his son] Stephen Segrave 3rd Baron Segrave (age 40) succeeded 3rd Baron Segrave.

Royal Descendants of John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave 1256-1325

Anne Neville Queen Consort England

Queen Anne Boleyn of England

Catherine Parr Queen Consort England

Queen Catherine Howard of England

Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland

George Wharton

Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Queen Consort Camilla Shand

Diana Spencer Princess Wales

Ancestors of John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave 1256-1325

Great x 2 Grandfather: Gilbert Segrave

Great x 1 Grandfather: Stephen Segrave

GrandFather: Gilbert Segrave

Great x 3 Grandfather: Geoffrey Despencer

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Despencer

Great x 1 Grandmother: Rohese Despencer

Great x 2 Grandmother: Recuara Harcourt

Father: Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave

John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave

GrandFather: Geoffrey de Lucy of Newington in Kent

Mother: Maud de Lucy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Cantilupe

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cantilupe Baron

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Cantilupe

GrandMother: Nichole Cantilupe