GRANDISON. 75 coheirs of Sir John de TRBGOZ, by Maud, cla. of Fulke Fitzwamsb, obtained with her large possessions in Herefordshire, Somerset, Wilts, &c., and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron [LORD QRANDISON], by writs from 6 Feb. (1298/0), 27 Ed. L(») to 10 Oct. (13251, 19 Ed. II. (^ lie was in the Scotch wars ; was at the siege of Carlaverock, but, tho 1 sum. to the Pari, at Lincoln in 1301, was not one of the Barons whose name wits appended to the celebrated letter to the Pope. He was sum. to the coronation of Edward 11 He d. before (1335), 9 Ed. III. IT. 1330? 2. Peter (de Grandisox), Lord Graxdtsox, s. and h., aged 40 (133.-,), 9 Ed. III. He had summons to Pari. 23 April (1337), 11 Ed. III., to 10 March (13 IS, 9), 23 Ed. III., and was a Knight Banneret, 1315. He m. Blanche, da. of Roger (Mortimer), 1st Eaiu. ok March, by Jean, da. of Peter de Gkneville. He d. s.p. 10 Aug. (1353), 32 Ed. III. IIL 1338. 3. Joux de Grandison, Bisnop of Exeter, and Lord - Grandison, br. and h., aged 60 [and upwards] in 1353, having been h. [about 1292] at Ashperton ; co. Hereford. He was Prebend of York, 1309; Archdeacon of Nottingham, 1310 , was Chaplain to Pope John xxir., being one of the Papal Ambassadors, 1327, aud was made Bishop of Exeter, 1328. He successfully resisted the visitation of the Archbishop in 1332 and devoted himself greatly to the re-edification of his cathedral. Having already in right of his office a seat in Pari, he was never sum. in his [lay] Barony. He d. uum. 15 July 1369, in bis 77th year, aud was bur. in Exeter Cathedral. IV. 1369, TnoMAS (de Grandison), Loud Grandisdx, nephew to and h., being s. and h. of Otho DE Grandison, by Beatrix, da. aud 1375. coheir of Nicholas Malmains, of Ockley, co. Surrey, which Otho was br. to the last two Lords and rf. 1358. He was aged 30 in 13G9, being in tho expedition to Calais in that year. He d. num. (1375), 49 Ed. HI., when the Barony fell into abeyance. ( c ) OBANDISON, and GRAXDISO.N OF LIMERICK. Viscountcyfl.] J, Snt Oliver St. John, 2d s. of Nicholas St. John, j 1 (j'JI of Lydiard Trcgoz, Wilts, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Blount, of Mapledurham, Oxou, was 6. about 1560 ; served iu the Army in Flanders where he was knighted ; distinguished himself in 1601 against the Spaniards at the battle of Kingsale ; was President of Munster aud Vice President of Connaught, and having been made Oh. Gov. op Ireland, as Lord (■>) It is to be remarked that this date is some 7 months earlier, than the writ by which his elder brother (Otho) was sum. ( Ij ) There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. ( c ) The cohoirs were in 1376 found to be among the numerous descendants of his three aunts, the daughters of the 1st Baron, viz. (1) Mabel, wife of Sir John Patteshull ; (2) Katherine, wife of William (de Montacute), Earl of Salisbury, and (3) Agnes, wife of Sir John Northwode. After a little interval of some Jive centuries it occurred to Sir Henry Paston Bedingfeld, Bait, to petition the crown, at a time when such petitions were only too common and too readily (if only the parties had good political interest) accorded, to determine this Barony in his favour. See vol. i, p. 288, note "b," and p. 289, note "c," sub "Beaumont." After groat expense in proving his pedigree (thro' the families of Bedingfeld, Tud- deuham, Patteshull and Graudison, from the 1st Lord, the House of Lords resolved, 26 June 1S5S, that he was one of the coheirs of the aid Barony, he being heir of dame Katharine TuddeuUam in whom one fourth of a third of the representation vested, she being one of the four daughters and coheirs of dame Mabel Patteshull, wdio was one of the three daughters (who left issue of the 1st Lord. Their Lordships found at the same time that Sir Anchitel Ashburuham, Bart., one of the other cohoirs [whose name was legion] represented one whole third of the Barony, as heir of dame Agues Northwode, another of the aboveuamed three daughter*.
