Of Norton, Burnham, Charlton Musgrove, Stowell, Somerset, Boddington and Kemerton, Gloucestershire, etc, and, in right of his wife, of Bicknor, Longford and Taynton, Gloucestershire.
Sheriff of Devonshire, 1261—4, and heir by his father's 2nd marriage.
He fought in Gascony in 1254. He supported the king in his quarrel with the barons as late as 24 Sept. 1264. He afterwards joined the rebels and was made by them Constable of Salisbury Castle 19 Dec 1264. He was appointed joint Captain and Keeper of the Peace in Somerset, Dorset, and Wiltshire in 1266. In 1270 at the request of Edward the king's son, he was pardoned all his debts wherein he was bound at the exchequer or elsewhere. He was granted protection in 1271, he then going to Ireland on business of Edward the king's son. In 1271 he and the Abbot of Tintern were appointed to assess the tallage in the town of Bristol. In 1272 he was granted power to admit into the peace of the king and Edward the king's son such Irishmen who wished to come into it. He was Constable of Bristol Castle before 27 Feb 1274. 2
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21 Oct 1256, Westminster
John de Muscegros of Gloucestershire has made fine with the king by two marks of gold for having respite from his knighthood, concerning which he will pay one mark of gold in the king’s Wardrobe at the immediate St. Martin and one mark of gold at next Easter.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 40 Hen. III, 1286
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1 Oct 1260, Windsor
Because John de Muscegros, the king’s valet, is ready to receive the arms of knighthood from the king at the forthcoming feast of St. Edward, for which it is inevitable that he will apply not inconsiderable funds, the king, wishing to do him special grace, grants him that he may have respite until Michaelmas in the forty-fifth year from the £60 which he is bound to pay to him at present at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and at the Exchequer of Easter next to come of the debts of Robert de Muscegros, his father, which the king attermined some time ago at £60 per annum, so that he shall then render £30 there, £30 at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £60 thus for the aforesaid debts from year to year at the same terms until those debts have been paid to the king.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 44 Hen. III, 669
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After 13 Jun 1261
The king has granted to John de Muscegros that he may render £40 per annum for all debts he owes him of the debts of Robert de Muscegros, his father, which the king some time ago attermined at £60 per annum, at the same terms at which he ought to have paid the aforesaid £60, until the aforesaid debts have been paid to the king.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 45 Hen. III, 618
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10 Aug 1266, Kenilworth
Grant to Hugh de Beaumes, king's yeoman, for 60 marks wherein the king is bound to him, of the marriage of Alice de Mucegros, daughter and one of the heirs of John de Mucegros, who held in chief; and grant to him of a wardship of the value of £20 a year as soon as an
opportunity shall offer.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 5, p. 625
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23 Oct 1270, Westminster
Pardon, at the instance of Edward the king's son, to John de
Muscegros and his heirs of all debts wherein he is bound at the
Exchequer or elsewhere, as well those of his father as his own.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 6, p. 467
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12 Dec 1271, Clarendon
Grant to Adam de Arderne of the gift and quitclaim of John de Muscegros son of Robert de Muscegros, made to the said Adam and Amice his wife, all the land of ... John Bendegrave.
Calendar of Charter Rolls, 56 Hen. III, p. 178
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Inquisition Post Mortem
123. JOHN DE MUSCEGROS 3
Writ, 8 May, 3 Edw. I. [1275]
SOMERSET. Inq. and extent, Friday the morrow of the Ascension, 3 Edw. I.
Northon. The manor, held of the king in chief by service of 4s. when hidage happens, worth £20 yearly with an adjacent foreign hundred.
Brywham. The manor, held of Sir John de Moun in chief by service of knight's fee.
Cherleton. The manor, held of the lords of Camel Regis, viz. — of John de Burgo the elder, by service of 1 knight's fee.
Stauill. The manor, held of Anselm (Ancello) Gorney by service of ½ knight's fee.
Robert de Musegros, aged 23 and more, is his next heir.
Gloucester. Inq. (undated.)
Kenemerton. 2 carucates land in demesne which are 1 knight's fee, held of the king in chief by service of attending the court of the earl of
Gloucester at Thookesburi, and of scutage when it shall happen.
Boyton. 7 carucates land, worth £60 yearly, held of the earl of Gloucester, the abbot of Westminster, the prior of Derhurst, and other lords, by service of 6s. ½d. yearly to the said earl, 7s. 3d. to the said prior, and attending his court at Aylmundeston, and 14s. to other lords.
Little Cumpton. 1 carucate land, held of the bishop of Worcester by
service of 1 mark yearly, and attending his court of Wydendon.
Robert his son, is his next heir, and of full age.
Gloucester. Inq. (undated.)
Berton Regis manor outside Gloucester. ½ virgate land, held of the said manor by service of 2s. 4½d. yearly and two attendances at the view of frank pledge.
Hatherle. ½ virgate land, held of Roger de Burghull by service of 2s. yearly ; 1 virgate land, held of the fee of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem by service of 16s. 8d., and it owes 10 marks after a death ;
2 parts of 1 virgate land, held of Richard de Wilenton by service of
7s. 4d., doing suit at the court of the lord of Beggesworth at Beggesworth, and scutage when it shall happen ; and 1 carucate land, held of the said lord of Baggesworth, by the said suit, and scutage for a third of a shield (pro tercio scuti) when it shall happen.
Langeford. 2 carucates land, held of the heirs of John de Burgo, owing
suit at the king's hundred (court) of Duddeston, and scutage to the
said heirs.
Heir as above.
C. Edw. I. File 10. (1.)
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