Ralph Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley (died January 1400) was an English nobleman, soldier and administrator under King
Richard II, who was stripped of his lands, goods and title and executed for rebelling against King
Henry IV.
Origins
Born about 1360, he was the second son and heir of Sir Marmaduke Lumley (1314-1365), a landowner and administrator in
Northumberland
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It is bordered by land on ...
, and his second wife Margaret,
[ daughter of Robert Holland, 2nd ]Baron Holand
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Barons Holand, First Creation (1314)
*Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Hola ...
.
Career
Under the age of majority
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at the death of his father in 1365 and of his elder brother Robert in 1374, his guardian was John Nevill. In 1383 he received his inherited lands and had already embarked on a military career, being knighted and holding for ransom a number of French prisoners of war. The next year he was summoned to Parliament as a baron and in 1385 was under the command of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy, titular King of Mann, KG, Lord Marshal (10 November 134120 February 1408) was the son of Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy, and a descendant of Henry III of England. His mother was Mary ...
, fighting the Scots in the defence of Berwick-upon-Tweed
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. At the Battle of Otterburn
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The best remaining record of the bat ...
in August 1388, he was taken prisoner by the Scots, not being freed until October 1389 after payment of a sizeable ransom, toward which both King Richard and the Bishop of Durham contributed.[
In 1391 he was appointed Captain of Berwick and in 1392 received royal permission to rebuild and ]crenellate
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his castle at Lumley. In 1394 and 1397 he was on the commission of the peace
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for the North Riding of Yorkshire
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From the Restoration it was used as ...
and in 1397 attended the Parliament at which all members had to swear loyalty to King Richard.[
In the Parliament of September 1399 he accepted the seizure of power by King Henry IV and the imprisonment of Richard, but in December joined his cousin ]Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey
Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, 3rd Earl of Kent, KG, Earl Marshal (8 September 1372 – 7 January 1400) was an English nobleman and courtier.
Early life and family
Born on 8 September 1372, Thomas Holland was the eldest son and heir of ...
, in the conspiracy known as the Epiphany Rising
The Epiphany Rising was a failed rebellion against King Henry IV of England in early January 1400.
Background
Richard II rewarded those who had supported him against Gloucester and the Lords Appellant with a plethora of new titles. Upon the us ...
, which aimed to murder Henry and restore Richard. He was one of the conspirators captured and beheaded at Cirencester
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in January 1400. All his moveable possessions were given to the King's half-brother John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
John Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Somerset and 1st Marquess of Dorset, later only 1st Earl of Somerset, (c. 1373 – 16 March 1410) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the first of the four illegitimate children of John of Gaunt ( ...
, and his estates were forfeited to the crown, apart from lands yielding 100 pounds a year left to support his widow and twelve children.[
]
Family
He married Eleanor (died after 1441), third daughter of his guardian John Nevill and his first wife Maud, daughter of Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy
Henry Percy, 9th Baron Percy of Topcliffe, 2nd Baron Percy of Alnwick (6 February 1301 – 26 February 1352) was the son of Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Alnwick, and Eleanor Fitzalan, daughter of Sir Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel, a ...
.[ Their children included:
*Thomas (died 1400), implicated in his father's treason.][
*Sir John (1383–1421), whose son Sir ]Thomas
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obtained a reversal of his grandfather's attainder
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in 1461.[
*]Marmaduke
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(died 1450), Cambridge
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-educated bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England
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(1446-1449).
*Catherine (died 1461), who before 1425 married Sir John Chideock, of Chideock
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in Dorset.
*Elizabeth, who married Adam Tyrwhitt, of Kettleby in Lincolnshire.
References
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1400 deaths
Barons Lumley
Peers created by Richard II
Executed English people
People executed under the Plantagenets by decapitation
People executed under the Lancastrians
People executed under the Plantagenets for treason against England