Sir John de Northwode Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
John de Northwode, son and heir, was aged 31 at his father's death. In 1278, he was in the household of Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury; he did homage, and had a writ for livery of his inheritance, 10 Dec 1285. In 1290 ,he was chamberlain of Milton; sheriff of Kent, 1291-93, 1299-1300, 1304--06; and in 1291 and 1292 commissioner of oyer and terminer, and justice in Kent. He was summoned, 8 Jun 1294, with about 60 others, to advise the King upon urgent affairs of the realm; and on 14 June was excepted from service in the King's expedition to Gascony.

John de Northwode was summoned for military service abroad in 1297; and in 1298 and subsequent years in Scotland. He was present at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300, where he was knighted by Edward I. In 1305 he served as assessor of the fifteenth in the Cinque Ports, was a keeper of the peace in Kent, 1307, and a justice for gaol delivery, 1308, in which year he and his wife were summoned to the Coronation of Edward II.

John de Northwode was summoned to Parliament from 8 January 1312/3 to 20 March 1318/9, by writs directed Johanni de Northwode, whereby he is held to have become Lord Northwode. In June 1317, with his son John and 6 other Kentish notables, he proceeded to Dover to meet the cardinals sent to England at the King's request to negotiate peace between England and Scotland, and to escort them to London.

John de Northwode married (query about 1275) Joan de Badlesmere. He died 26 May 1319, and his widow 2 June following; they were buried in Minster church.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, pp. 754-755

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John married Joan de Badlesmere, daughter of Guncelin de Badlesmere and Unknown.¹⁴¹ (Joan de Badlesmere was born in Horton Kirby, Dartford, Kent, England and died on 2 Jun 1319 in Whitfield, Dover, Kent, England.)