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

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) and

John Charleton, 3rd Baron Cherleton John Charlton (also Charleton or Cherleton), 3rd Baron Cherleton, 3rd Lord Charlton of Powys (c. 1336–1374). He was the son of John Charleton, 2nd Baron Cherleton (d. 1360) and his wife, Maud Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of M ...

. He was part of a wide network of

Marcher lords A marcher lord () was a noble appointed by the king of England to guard the border (known as the Welsh Marches) between England and Wales. A marcher lord was the English equivalent of a margrave (in the Holy Roman Empire) or a marquis (in France ...

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 John Charlton (also Charleton or Cherleton), 2nd Baron Cherleton, 2nd Lord Charlton of Powys (died 1360) succeeded his father John Charlton, 1st Baron Charlton to the title in 1353. His mother was Hawys Gadarn (1291 – c. 1353), daughter of ...

(d. 1360) and his wife, Maud Mortimer, daughter of heiress

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and

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who deposed King Edward II of England in partnership with

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. He succeeded to the titles of 4th Baron Cherleton and 4th Lord of Powys (

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) on 13 July 1374, on the death of his father,

, and held the office of Justice of

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from 20 March 1387. He married Alice FitzAlan, daughter of

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and

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, 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 Hawys Gadarn (Hawys ferch Owain ap Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn), also known as the Hardy, the Powerful, the Intrepid, and Hawise de la Pole, (1291 – ) was the daughter of Owen de la Pole and the heir to Powys Wenwynwyn in Wales. She was married to Jo ...

(1291 – c. 1353), daughter of Joan Corbet and

Owen de la Pole Owen de la Pole (c. 1257 – c. 1293), also known as Owain ap Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, was the heir presumptive to the Welsh principality of Powys Wenwynwyn until 1283 when it was abolished by the Parliament of Shrewsbury. He became the 1st Lo ...

, the last Prince of Powys, making her the heiress to the former Welsh kingdom of

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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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