Sir John de Welles Knight, 5th Baron de Wells

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
John de Welle, afterwards Welles, Lord Welles, son and heir, was born 20 Apr 1352 at Conisholme, Lincs, and baptised that day in the church of St. Peter there. He was retained to stay with the Duke of Lancaster for life, 12 Feb 1371/2, and accompanied the Duke on his historic but fruitless march from Calais to Bordeaux, August-December 1373; was given seisin of his lands, 6 May 1373; and served on many commissions of the peace, of array, &c., in Lincolnshire from 1374. He was summoned to Parliament from 20 January 1375/6 to 26 February 1420/1, by writs diiected Johanni de Welle, or Welles, such summonses being apparently continued no less than 7 years after his death, viz. from 29 Sep 1422 to 3 Aug 1429. He was frequently abroad or serving in the French wars, 1377, 1379-83 and 1387-88; was with the garrison of Berwick-on-Tweed, 1378-79; had licence to go to France "pro Declaratione Honoris ac Nominis sui Salvatione," 22 Aug 1384; and took part in Richard Il's only expedition to Scotland in 1385. In May 1390 he and Sir David Lindsay, afterwards 1^st Earl of Crawford [SCT], performed a notable feat of arms on London Bridge, where Welles was unhorsed at the third course. He was present at Lowestoft, October 1398, on the embarkation of his brother-in-law, the Duke of Norfolk, who had been banished by Richard II; was summoned, 18 May 1400, to perform homage and fealty to Henry IV, was appointed, 11 May 1402, to proclaim, in Lincolnshire, the King's intention of enforcing law and order; and ordered, 8 Sep 1403, to stop granting livery and making unlawful assemblies.

Sir John de Welles married, (?) 1stly, before May 1386, Eleanor, sister of John de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, and of Thomas de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, and Earl Marshal, 1^st daughter of John, 4^th Lord Mowbray, by Elizabeth, suo jure (according to modern doctrine) Baroness Segrave, daughter and heir of John de Segrave, 4^th Lord Segrave. Eleanor, who was born shortly before 25 Mar 1364, may have been living in 1399. Sir John de Wells died 26 Aug 1421.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XIIB, pp. 441-443

John married Alianore de Mowbray, daughter of Sir John de Mowbray Knight, Baron de Mowbray and Elizabeth de Segrave Baroness de Segrave.¹⁴¹ (Alianore de Mowbray was born Shortly Before Mar 1364 in Epworth, Isle of Axhomle, Lincolnshire, England ¹⁴¹ and died after 1399 in England ¹⁴¹.)