Arms of John Segrave, 2nd Baron Segrave (d

Nicholas Segrave, 1st Baron Segrave (also Seagrave; c. 1238 – bef. 12 November 1295) was an

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baronial leader. Nicholas was grandson of

Stephen de Segrave Stephen de Segrave (or Seagrove or Stephen Segrave or Stephen of Seagrave) (c. 1171 – 9 November 1241) was a medieval Chief Justiciar of England. Life He was born as the son of a certain Gilbert de Segrave of Segrave in Leicestershire, who ...

. Segrave was one of the most prominent baronial leaders during the reign of King Henry III. On 4 August 1265 he was wounded at the Battle of Evesham and taken prisoner, however on the 1st July 1267 he was granted a pardon. In 1295 he was summoned to

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to be made a Baron. He died by the 12th November of the same year and was succeeded in the barony by his son John.

Marriage and issue

Nicholas married Maud de Lucy, daughter of Geoffrey de Lucy, Knt., of Newington in Kent,

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, Dallington and

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, etc., by his wife, Nichole. Nicholas and Matilda 'Maud' had the following issue: *

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, born 1256, died 1325, married Christian de Plescy. * Nicholas Segrave, Knt., was a soldier and administrator, and lord of

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. From 1308 to 1316 he was

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. He died in 1321.J. S. Hamilton, ''Nicholas Seagrave'', Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
/ref> *Henry Segrave, Knt. *Geoffrey Segrave, Knt., Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1307 *Simon Segrave * Gilbert Segrave, Bishop of London *Stephen Segrave

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. *Annabel Segrave, married John du Plessis (a grandson of

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) *Eleanor Segrave, married

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Marriage and issue

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