Philip Marmion, 5th and last

Baron Marmion There have been four different baronies held by the Marmion family, two feudal baronies, one purported barony created by Simon de Montfort and one barony by writ. Feudal barony of Tamworth The first feudal barony was obtained by Roger Marmion ...

of Tamworth (died 1291) was

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and

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. He was descended from the lords of

Fontenay-le-Marmion Fontenay-le-Marmion () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Calvados department *Baron Marmion There have been four different baronies held by the Marm ...

in Normandy, who are said to have been hereditary champions of the

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Career

Philip was

High Sheriff of Warwickshire This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of the English county of Warwickshire. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most ...

and

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in 1249, and of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1261, having also been summoned to Parliament in that year. He served in Poitou in 1254, and was imprisoned when on his way home through France at

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. Philip was one of the sureties for the king in December 1263 and was one of his leading supporters at the Battle of Northampton in April 1264. He was taken prisoner at the

Battle of Lewes The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex, on 14 May 1264. It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made h ...

on 14 May 1264. He died before 5 December 1291 when an

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was held.

Family and descendants

Marmion first married Joan de Kilpec, daughter and heiress of Hugh (de la Mare) Kilpec, Baron of

Kilpeck Kilpeck ( cy, Llanddewi Cil Peddeg) is a village and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England. It is about southwest of Hereford, just south of the A465 road and Welsh Marches Line to Abergavenny, and about from the border wit ...

, by his wife Mazera, with whom he had the following issue: * Mazera, m. Ralph de Cromwell and their daughter Joan (b.abt 1268) m. Alexander de Freville. * Joan, (b.abt 1256) m. William de Morteyn but died with no issue. * Maud, (b.abt 1262) m. Ralph le Botiller (Butler) of Wemme (son of Ralph Botiller and Maud Pantulph). He married secondly, Mary (perhaps Cantilupe), (Inq P.M. 1315) who bore him: * Joan, (b.abt 1284) m1. Thomas de Ludlow and, m2. Henry Hillary (-1349). He also had a lovechild with a mistress whose identity is not known:- * Robert, m. Isabel daughter and heir of Giles Fitz Ralph having a single daughter, Avice, m1. Eustace de Hardreshull and m2. John de Whitacre Tamworth passed to Joan Cromwell, daughter of Mazera Marmion, and wife of Alexander de Freville, and Scrivelsby eventually passed with Margaret de Ludlow to Sir

John Dymoke Lieutenant-Colonel John Lindley Marmion Dymoke MBE (1 September 1926 – 21 March 2015) was the hereditary Queen's Champion from 1946 until his death in 2015. He was present, as champion, at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and acted ...

, in whose family it has since remained along with the title 'Champion of England'. Maud (Marmion) Butler was heiress of Pulverbatch, Middleton and Norbury.

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Images of Philip and Lady Marmion's effigy in Scrivelsby church

Inquisition Post Mortem of Philip Marmion
#29, dated 1291-2. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marmion, Philip Year of birth unknown 1291 deaths 13th-century English people Medieval English knights High Sheriffs of Warwickshire High Sheriffs of Leicestershire High Sheriffs of Norfolk High Sheriffs of Suffolk High Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire High Sheriffs of Derbyshire Anglo-Normans English people of French descent English people of Belgian descent People from Tamworth (district) Sheriffs of Warwickshire