Sir John de Soules (or de Soulis or Soules) (died 1310) was

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from 1301 to 1304 in the

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. He was a member of the de Soules family.

Life

John was the second son of William I de Soules and Ermengarde Durward. John had previously protected

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from Sir Andrew Harclay,

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and Warden of the English March. He was appointed in 1292 as the custodian of Hugh Lovel. After the appointment of a Council of Twelve—in practice, a new panel of Guardians, by the leading men of Scotland, which sidelined King

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in 1295, Soules was sent to France along with other envoys to negotiate an

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. In 1301 after the resignations of

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and

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he was appointed

. John was exiled and died in France in 1310.

Marriage and issue

He married Halwise Stewart, the daughter of

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and Jean Macrory, they had the following known issue: *Muriel, married Richard Lovel, had issue.

Citations

References

*McAndrew, Bruce A. ''Scotland's Historic Heraldry'', Boydell Press, 2006. *Peter Traquair ''Freedom's Sword'' Guardians of Scotland 1310 deaths Scoto-Normans Year of birth unknown Scottish people of the Wars of Scottish Independence {{Scotland-bio-stub