John Charlton (also Cherleton or Charleton), 4th Baron Charlton of Powys (25 April 1362 – 19 October 1401) was an English noble. John Charlton was the elder son of Joan de Stafford (a daughter of Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford) and John Charleton, 3rd Baron Cherleton. He was part of a wide network of Marcher lords whose familes intermarried across the Welsh and English borders, feuding and building alliances between them through marriage, inheritance and warfare. His paternal grandparents were of John Charleton, 2nd Baron Cherleton (d. 1360) and his wife, Maud Mortimer, daughter of heiress Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March who deposed King Edward II of England in partnership with Isabella of France. He succeeded to the titles of 4th Baron Cherleton and 4th Lord of Powys ( Feudal baron) on 13 July 1374, on the death of his father, John Charleton, 3rd Baron Cherleton, and held the office of Justice of

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from 20 March 1387. He married Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and Elizabeth de Bohun, before March 1392, without issue. His last

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was dated 1395. He died on 19 October 1401, aged 39, at

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, Welshpool, which had become the family seat through his paternal grandmother Hawys Gadarn (1291 – c. 1353), daughter of Joan Corbet and Owen de la Pole, the last Prince of Powys, making her the heiress to the former Welsh kingdom of Powys Wenwynwyn in Wales.Pierce, T. J., (1959)
HAWYS (HAWISE) GADARN ('the Hardy') (1291 - ante 1353), baroness of Powys
''Dictionary of Welsh Biography''. Retrieved 27 Apr 2025, from https://biography.wales/article/s-HAWY-GAD-1291 As he had no children, he was succeeded in the barony and lordship by his younger brother,

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, as the 5th Baron Charlton.

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