John de Moels Baron of Moels

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
John de Moels of Cadbury and Mapperton, co. Somerset; King's Carswell, Diptford, and Langford, co. Devon; Little Berkhampstead, co. Hertford; Over Orton and Stoke Basset, co. Oxford, &c., son and heir of Roger de Moels, of Cadbury, &c.. He was aged 26 and more at his father's death, and on 6 Aug 1295 did homage and had livery of his father's lands. He was summoned for military service against the Scots, and also in Flanders, frorn 1 Mar 1295/6 to 30 July 1309; to attend the King at Salisbury, 24 Feb 1296/7; and to a Military Council at Rochester, 8 Sep 1297. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb 1298/9 to 16 Jun 1311, by writs directed Johanni de Moeles, whereby he is held to have become Lord Moeles. In 1297 the sheriff of Dorset was ordered to deliver to John houses within the castle of Sherborne sufficient for himself and his wife to live in during the King's pleasure. He joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1. In the Parliament at Westminster, 28 Feb 1304/5, he with others mainperned William de Montagu, who, with Amauri de St. Amand, had been committed to the Tower of London for certain misdeeds. He married, in or before 1302, Maud. He died 20 May 1310.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, pp. 5-6

John married Maud de Grey, daughter of John de Grey Baron and Maud de Verdon. (Maud de Grey was born about 1279 in Wilton, Herefordshire, England.)