John Tuchet
- Born: Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
- Marriage: Margery de Mortimer
- Died: 23 Jun 1372, A naval battle off La Rochelle, France 141
 General Notes:
~ Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 8th Edition, 176B:32, John Tuchet, son of John Tuchet and his wife Joan de Audley, was a minor in 1361, and married an unidentified wife, said in some references to be Margaert or Maud, daughter of Sir Roger de Mortimer, second Earl of March. 160
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
John Tuchet, son and heir, was a minor at his father's death. He served under the Earl of Pembroke in Poitou and Anjou in 1369, being present at the affair of Puirenon in that year; and in June 1372 he sailed with the Earl from England with reinforcements for Aquitaine. He married, before 1371, Maud. He was slain in the naval battle off La Rochelle, 23 June 1372, when the Earl of Pembroke's ship was captured by the Spaniards, the Earl himself being taken prisoner. His widow married, before 31 August 1381, John Dabridecourt, and died before 3 November 1405.
~Complete Peerage XIIB. pp. 59-60
John married Margery de Mortimer, daughter of Roger de Mortimer 2nd Earl of March and Philippa de Montagu Countess of Ulster. (Margery de Mortimer was born in 1352 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England and was buried in Grey Friars, Ipswich.)
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