Person:Gilbert de Segrave (1)

Gilbert, 3rd Baron Segrave was born circa 1208. He was the son of Stephen, 2nd Baron Segrave and Ida de Hastings. He obtained, from Simon de Montfort, Lord of Leicester, a grant of the whole town of Kegworth in 1230/31. He was given a grant, from the crown, of the manor of Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1232/33. He married Amabil de Chaucombe, daughter of Robert de Chaucumbe and Juliana (?), before 1238. He was made justice of all the royal forests, south of the Trent, and governor of Kenilworth Castle in 1241/42. He was constituted one of the justices of "Oyer and Terminer," to hear and determine all such causes as had usually been tried before the justice itinerant, at the Tower of London, in 1250/51. Arms: De sable, à trois gerbes de blé d'argent, liées de gueules. He was deputed, with Roger Bigod, Earl Marshal, on an embassy, and was treacherously siezed, along with many other nobility, by the French, in 1253/54. He died circa 1254. He died from the severe treatment he was given by the French in their captivity.

Child of Gilbert, 3rd Baron Segrave and Amabil de Chaucombe:

• Nicholas, 1st Lord Segrave+ b. 1238, d. bt Jul 1295 - 12 Nov 1295

1. ↑ GILBERT de Segrave (-Pons, Poitou before 8 Oct 1254)., in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.