Complete Peerage provides brief biographies of John de Newmarch and his brother and heir Roger de Newmarch. [1]
"John de Newmarch, s. and h. [of Adam de Newmarch], was under age at his father's death, and in ward to Alice de Lacy." [2]
1302/03 John de Newmarch made a settlement of Newmarch property on January 20. [3]
John de Newmarch married "in or before Jan. 1302/3, Avice (—)." [4]
1307/08 "February 17. Eltham. Mandate to John son of Adam de Novo Mercato to render homage and fealty to Henry de Bello Monte, to whom the king has granted the manors of Folkyngham, Edenham and Barton, co. Lincoln, late in the tenure of Gilbert de Gaunt." [5]
John de Newmarch "was living in Feb. 1307/8, but d. s.p., before
20 May 1310. [6]
1310 "May 20. Kennington. To the justices of the Bench. Order to send one of their number who can most conveniently be spared to Amice, late the wife of John de Novo Mercato, who holds for life the manor of Kedynton, co. Suffolk, of the inheritance of Roger de Novo Mercato, which Amice is sojourning in Yorkshire, and is unable owing to infirmity to come into the Bench, to receive from her a recognisance of what right she claims in the said manor, Margery de Wyluby and John her son having brought a writ of covenant before the king against the said Roger de Novo Mercato concerning the aforesaid manor in order to levy a fine between them of the same; so that the said Amice after such recognisance has been made shall attorn herself before the justice so sent of her fealty to the said Margery and John, and that the said justice shall certify the said justices of the Bench of the premises at a certain day to be assigned by them. The king wills that they shall, when they have before them the record of the said justices of the recognisance and fealty aforesaid, permit a fine to be levied before them in the Bench according to law and custom. By K. on the information of J. de Sandale." [7]
1329/30 Avice, the widow of John de Newmarch died shortly before 20 March." [8]
1330 "Gloucester. June 23. To John de Bolinghrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to inter meddle further with the manors specified below, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Amice, late the wife of John de Novo Mercato, held no lands at her death of the king in her demesne as of fee, but that she held on that day the manors of Wodhale in the park of Wilmersle and Thorpe in Balne as of the purchase of her and John, to them and to the heirs of their bodies, with remainder, in default of such heirs, to the right heirs of John, and that the manor of Le Wodhale is held of Queen Philippa as of the honour of Pontefract by the service of a twentieth of a knight's fee, and that the manor of Thorp is held of Henry le Vavasour by certain services, and that John and Amice died without an heir of their bodies, and that Roger de Novo Mercato, brother of John, is John's next heir and is of full age." [9]
[1] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 548.
[2] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 548, citing De Banco Roll 199, Trin. 6-7 Edw. II, rot. 32.
[3] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 548, citing Feet of Fines, Divers Cos., 285/25/276.
[4] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 548, citing Feet of Fines, Divers Cos., 285/25/276.
[5] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward II, A.D. 1307-1313 (London: HMSO, 1894), 46, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[6] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 548, citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1307-13, p. 46 and Cal. Close Rolls, 1307-13, p. 211.
[7] Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward II, Vol. I, 1307-1313 (London: HMSO, 1892), 211, [HathiTrust].
[8] George E. Cokayne, H. A. Doubleday, Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 9, Moels to Nuneham (London: St. Catherine Press, 1936), 548, citing Cal. Fine Rolls, vol. iv, p. 168.
[9] Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. II, 1330-1333 (London: HMSO, 1898), 42, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].