Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave 1238-1295

Paternal Family Tree: Segrave

Around 1238 Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave was born to Gilbert Segrave [aged 36] at Seagrave, Leicestershire.

On 8th October 1254 [his father] Gilbert Segrave [aged 52] died at Pons.

In 1256 Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 18] and Maud de Lucy [aged 16] were married.

In 1256 [his son] John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave was born to Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 18] and [his wife] Maud de Lucy [aged 16]. He married 1270 Christiana Plessey Baroness Segrave and had issue.

After 1256 [his son] Nicholas Segrave was born to Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 18] and [his wife] Maud de Lucy [aged 16].

On 14th May 1264 the army of Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester [aged 56] including Gilbert "Red Earl" Clare 7th Earl Gloucester 6th Earl Hertford [aged 20], Henry Hastings [aged 29] and Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 26] defeated the army of King Henry III of England [aged 56] during the Battle of Lewes at Lewes [Map].

King Henry III of England, his son, the future, King Edward I of England [aged 24], Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex [aged 60], Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 55], John "Red" Comyn 1st Lord Baddenoch [aged 44], Philip Marmion 5th Baron Marmion [aged 30] and John Giffard 1st Baron Giffard Brimpsfield [aged 32] were captured. John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey [aged 33], John Balliol [aged 56], Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale [aged 49], Roger Leybourne [aged 49] and William de Valence 1st Earl Pembroke fought for the King. Guy Lusignan was killed. Fulk IV Fitzwarin [aged 44] drowned. Bishop Walter de Cantelupe [aged 73] was present and blessed the Montfort army before the battle.

On 4th August 1265 the army loyal to King Henry III of England [aged 57], led by his son the future King Edward I of England [aged 26], supported by Gilbert "Red Earl" Clare 7th Earl Gloucester 6th Earl Hertford [aged 21], Warin Basingburne and John Giffard 1st Baron Giffard Brimpsfield [aged 33] defeated the rebel army of Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester [aged 57] at the Battle of Evesham.

Roger Leybourne [aged 50] fought and reputedly saved the King's life.

Adam Mohaut rescued the King.

Alan de Plugenet of Kilpec fought for the King.

Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester was killed. Earl of Leicester, Earl Chester forfeit. His son Henry Montfort [aged 26] was also killed.

Hugh Despencer [aged 41] was killed by Roger Mortimer 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore [aged 34]. Baron Despencer extinct. It may not have been created as a hereditary barony.

Simon Beauchamp [aged 31], Ralph Basset [aged 50], William Devereux [aged 46], Hugh Troyes, Richard Trussel, Peter Montfort [aged 60], William Mandeville, William Crepping, William Birmingham, Guy Balliol and Thomas Astley [aged 50] were killed. Henry Hastings [aged 30], Humphrey Bohun [aged 44], Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 27], John Vesci, John Fitzjohn and Guy Montfort Count Nola [aged 21] were captured.

John Vesci was wounded and taken prisoner.

In 1266 [his son] Bishop Gilbert Segrave was born to Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 28] and [his wife] Maud de Lucy [aged 26].

Around 1269 [his daughter] Eleanor Segrave was born to Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 31] and [his wife] Maud de Lucy [aged 29]. She married Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby and had issue.

In 1270 [his son] John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave [aged 14] and [his daughter-in-law] Christiana Plessey Baroness Segrave were married.

Around 1273 [his son] Henry Segrave was born to Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 35] and [his wife] Maud de Lucy [aged 33].

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In 1283 Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 45] was created 1st Baron Segrave.

On 12th November 1295 Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave [aged 57] died at Chaucombe, Northamptonshire. His son John [aged 39] succeeded 2nd Baron Segrave. Christiana Plessey Baroness Segrave by marriage Baroness Segrave.

In 1337 [his former wife] Maud de Lucy [aged 97] died.

Royal Descendants of Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave 1238-1295
Number after indicates the number of unique routes of descent. Descendants of Kings and Queens not included.

Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland [1]

King Edward IV of England [1]

King Richard III of England [1]

Anne Neville Queen Consort England [3]

King Henry VII of England and Ireland [1]

Queen Anne Boleyn of England [1]

Catherine Parr Queen Consort England [2]

Queen Catherine Howard of England [2]

Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland [4]

George Wharton [9]

Brigadier-General Charles Fitz-Clarence [67]

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [244]

Queen Consort Camilla Shand [63]

Diana Spencer Princess Wales [667]

Ancestors of Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave 1238-1295

Great x 1 Grandfather: Gilbert Segrave

Grandfather: Stephen Segrave

Father: Gilbert Segrave

Great x 2 Grandfather: Geoffrey Despencer

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Despencer

Grandmother: Rohese Despencer

Great x 1 Grandmother: Recuara Harcourt

Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave