John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles (1352–1421) was an English soldier and noble. The son of John de Welles, 4th

Baron Welles The title of Baron Welles has been created three times. Its first creation was for Adam de Welles on 6 May 1299 in the Peerage of England by writ of summons. This creation was extinguished by attainder in 1469. The title was created a second ti ...

and Maud de Ros. He married Eleanor de Mowbray, daughter of

John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray John (III) de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray (24 June 1340 – 19 October 1368) was an English peer. He was slain near Constantinople while en route to the Holy Land. Family John de Mowbray, born 25 June 1340 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, was the son of ...

, and Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave. He was summoned to parliament between 20 January 1376 and 26 February 1421. At a banquet in Edinburgh and presumably after too much alcohol he issued, as Champion of England, the following challenge to David Lindsay (later 1st Earl of Crawford): "Let words have no place; if ye know not the

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and Valiant deeds of Englishmen; appoint me a day and a place where ye list, and ye shall have experience". As a result of the challenge, on

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, 23 April 1390, he fought David Lindsay in mock combat on horseback on

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, losing the match by falling from his horse in their third charge against each other. He was the father of:See
/ref> * Thomas de Welles (1380-1411) who predeceased his father. He married Cecilia Aston and had a son: :* John de Wells (1407-) * Joan de Welles (1382-1409) * Eudo de Welles (1387-1417), who predeceased his father. He married Maud Greystoke, daughter of

Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke, (18 October 1353 – 6 April 1418) was an English peer and landowner. Life Greystoke was the son of William de Greystoke, 2nd Baron Greystoke, and Joane, daughter of Lord Fitzhugh, his second wif ...

and Katherine Clifford. by whom he had two sons: :* Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles. :*Sir William Welles,

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, married to Anne Barnewall, daughter of Sir Christopher Barnewall, and had issue including Elizabeth, Lady Slane and Ismay, Lady Navan; * Eleanor de Welles (1390-1458) who married Hugh de Poynings, son of Thomas Poynings, 3rd Baron Poynings and Joan ..., and had issue

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