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Biography of Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley 1360-1400

Paternal Family Tree: Lumley

1399 Epiphany Rising

1400 Parliament Henry IV 2: 30 Forfeiture of Earls

In or before 1360 [his father] Marmaduke Lumley (age 45) and [his mother] Margaret Holand (age 34) were married. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Around 1360 Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley was born to Marmaduke Lumley (age 45) and Margaret Holand (age 35).

Before 02 Feb 1383 Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 23) and Eleanor Neville Baroness Lumley were married. She by marriage Baroness Lumley. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 02 Feb 1383 [his son] John Lumley was born to Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 23) and [his wife] Eleanor Neville Baroness Lumley.

In 1384 Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 24) was created 1st Baron Lumley.

Froissart Book 3 Chapter 125. Before 05 Aug 1388. As at that time the earl of Northumberland and the other lords and knights of that country knew nothing of their coming. When tidings came to Newcastle and to Durham that the Scots were abroad, and that they might well see by the fires and smoke abroad in the country, the earl (age 46) sent to Newcastle his two sons [Henry "Hotspur" Percy (age 24) and Ralph Percy (age 29)] and sent commandment to every man to draw to Newcastle, saying to his sons: 'Ye shall go to Newcastle and all the country shall assemble there, and I shall tarry at Alnwick, which is a passage that they must pass by. If we may enclose them, we shall speed well.' Sir Henry Percy and sir Ralph his brother obeyed their father's commandment and came thither with them of the country. The Scots rode burning and exiling the country, that the smoke thereof came to Newcastle. The Scots came to the gates of Durham and scrimmished there; but they tarried not long but returned, as they had ordained before to do, and that they found by the way took and destroyed it. Between Durham and Newcastle is but twelve leagues English and a good country: there was no town, without it were closed, but it was brent, and they repassed the river of Tyne where they had passed before, and then came before Newcastle and there rested. All the English knights and esquires of the country of York and bishopric of Durham were assembled at Newcastle, and thither came the seneschal of York, sir Ralph Lumley (age 28), sir Matthew Redman (age 60), captain of Berwick, sir Robert Ogle (age 36), sir Thomas Grey, sir Thomas Holton, sir John Felton, sir John Lilleburn, sir Thomas Abingdon, the baron of Hilton, sir John Coppledike and divers other, so that the town was so full of people that they wist not where to lodge.

In 1396 [his daughter] Catherine Lumley was born to Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 36) and [his wife] Eleanor Neville Baroness Lumley.

Epiphany Rising

On 17 Dec 1399 the conspirators met at Abbey House Westminster Abbey [Map] including Thomas Blount (age 47), Thomas Despencer 1st Earl Gloucester (age 26), Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey (age 25), John Holland 1st Duke Exeter (age 47), Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 39), John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury (age 49), Edward 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle (age 26), Bernard Brocas (age 45). They plotted to capture King Henry IV of England (age 32) at a Tournament in Windsor, Berkshire [Map] on the Feast of Epiphany hence the Epiphany Rising.

On 07 Jan 1400 at Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map] Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley (age 40) was beheaded by the townspeople following an unsuccessful attempt to seize the town. Baron Lumley forfeit.

Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey (age 26) was beheaded. He had to forfeit the honours and estates he had gained after the arrests of Gloucester and Arundel: Duke Surrey extinct. He retained those he had received before: His brother Edmund Holland 4th Earl Kent (age 16) succeeded 4th Earl Kent, 3rd Baron Holand, 8th Baron Wake of Liddell.

John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury (age 50) was captured, tried and beheaded. Earl Salisbury, Baron Montagu, Baron Montagu forfeit.

Bernard Brocas (age 46) was captured.

Parliament Henry IV 2: 30 Forfeiture of Earls

After 07 Jan 1400. Henry IV's (age 32) Parliament. Also, be it remembered that whereas Thomas Holland, formerly earl of Kent (deceased), John Holland, formerly earl of Huntingdon (age 48), John Montague, formerly earl of Salisbury (deceased), Thomas, formerly Lord Despenser (age 26), and Ralph Lumley (deceased), knight, recently rose up in various parts of England and rode in warlike manner, treacherously, against our lord the king, contrary to their allegiance, to destroy our said lord the king and other great men of the realm, and to populate the said realm with people of another tongue, they were seized and beheaded in their armed uprising by the loyal lieges of oursaid lord the king; and for that reason all the lords temporal present in parliament, by the assent of the king, declared and adjudged the said Thomas, John, John, Thomas, and Ralph to be traitors for their armed uprising against their aforesaid liege lord, and that they should forfeit as traitors all the lands and tenements that they held in fee simple on 5 January, the eve of the feast of the Epiphany of our lord Jesus Christ, in the first year of the reign of our aforesaid lord [1400], or after, as the law of the land requires, together with all their goods and chattels, notwithstanding the fact that they were killed during the said armed uprising without due process of law.

[his son] Bishop Marmaduke Lumley was born to Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley and Eleanor Neville Baroness Lumley.

[his son] Thomas Lumley was born to Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley and Eleanor Neville Baroness Lumley.

Royal Ancestors of Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley 1360-1400

Kings Wessex: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 17 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks

Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Royal Descendants of Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley 1360-1400

Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Queen Consort Camilla Shand

Diana Spencer Princess Wales

Ancestors of Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley 1360-1400

GrandFather: Robert Lumley

Father: Marmaduke Lumley

Great x 2 Grandfather: Marmaduke Thweng

Great x 1 Grandfather: Marmaduke Thweng

Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Bruce

Great x 3 Grandfather: Peter Bruce

Great x 4 Grandmother: Juetta Flamville

Great x 2 Grandmother: Lucy Bruce

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert fitzRoger Lancaster

Great x 3 Grandmother: Hawise Lancaster

GrandMother: Lucia Thweng

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Ros

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Ros

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella Mac William Dunkeld

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Ros

Great x 4 Grandfather: Piers Fitzherbert

Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Fitzpiers

Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Ros

Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thurstan de Holland

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert de Holand of Upholland

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Holland 1st Baron Holand

GrandFather: Robert Holland 2nd Baron Holand 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Alan Zouche

Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Zouche 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen or Ela Quincy 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Stephen Longespée Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Ela Longespée Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Emmeline Riddlesford

Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Zouche Baroness Holand 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Segrave

Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Segrave

Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey de Lucy of Newington in Kent

Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud de Lucy

Great x 4 Grandmother: Nichole Cantilupe

Mother: Margaret Holand 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England