Jordan Foliot (c. 1249-1298) was son of Richard Foliot (-1290),

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of Jordan Castle, and Margery de Stuteville daughter of William de Stuteville (- c. 1259) and Margaret de Say (- c. 1243). Richard had the Rights of Stallage of the Market and Fair on St. Swithuns day valued at 40s yearly in Wellow.

Jordan Castle

Jordan Foliot,

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de Foliot,

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of Jordan Castle was granted the power to embattle his dwelling at Jordan Castle. He was the

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of Grimston, and Wellow, and of Besthorpe, with the Soc of Grimston, and its members, in Kirton Schidrintune, in Willoughby, and Walesby, in Besthorpe, and Carleton, and in Franesfeild.

Peerage

He was summoned to Parliament in 1295, whereby he is held to have become Lord Foliot.

Family and Descendants

Jordan Foliot married Margery de Newmarch, daughter of Adam de Newmarch and Isabel de Mowbray (see

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). Their son, Richard Foliot ( -c. 1317), married Joan de Braose ( - c. 1324), daughter of

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. Richard Foliot II, the son of Richard and Joan, died in 1325, when "any hereditary barony, that may be supposed to have been created by the writ of 1295, fell into abeyance."Complete Peerage, 2nd edition, Volume 5, P541
/ref> Margery Foliott, the daughter of Richard and Joan, married

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who was a younger son of

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and Isabel de Dispenser, daughter of Hugh le Despenser and

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Foliot, Jordan 1249 births 1298 deaths 13th-century English nobility Barons in the Peerage of England