Dulcie MASSEY

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• TitleOfNobility: ; Lord of Puddington
• Name: John MASSEY
• Name: John MASSEY
• Name: Mascy
• Politics: 1389, of Cheshire; Appointed Sheriff
• Politics: 1399, Chester, Cheshire; Imprisoned for supporting king Richard II
• Land grant: 16 Aug 1403, Tatton, Cheshire, England

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John de Pointington de Massey (Massey), Sir
Also Known As:"De /Pontington/", "de Massey;de Mascy;massie"
Birth circa 1365 Puddington Wirral Cheshire England Died 1404 in Shrewsbury, UK
Immediate Family:Son of Harmon De Pontington Massey and Jane De Pontington Mascy
Husband of Johanna Massey Father of Hamon 1373 Massey; Richard De Massey; Anne Massey; William 1379 de Pointington Massey; John 1385 Massey and 4 others
Brother of Hugh Massey; Mathilde MASSIE; Richard De Massey; Katherine Massie and Ellen Chadderton




http://masseyfamgenealogy.tripod.com/a21.htm#i1477: John De Pontington & Johanna De Coghall Massey were married between 1383 and 1385 in England.

John De Pontington Massey , son of Hamon De Pontington Massey and Jane De Timperley, was born about 1365 in England and died in 1403 in Battle Of Shrewbury, England, about age 38.

The Battle of Shrewsbury, fought on July 21st, 1403 between an army led by the Lancastrian King, Henry, IV and a rebel army led by members of the Percy family from Northumberland, is principally remembered today by many as the climax of Shakespeare's play, Henry IV part 1. The Percy forces, mostly raised from their estates in Cheshire, were believed to be aiming to join forces with a Welsh rebel force led by Owain Glyn Dwr. Shrewsbury was a principal town on the route taken by the Percy forces and was the major crossing point over the river Severn as well as a potential supply base. The royal army had to take and defend the site urgently before the Percies and Glyn Dwr could join up. Our knowledge of the battle, the battlefield and the armies is less than complete and even contemporary estimates of the numbers involved or of those slain are very much open to debate. A curious feature of the battle is that only a few years earlier it was the Percy family who had helped the King take the throne from Richard II. The Percy strongholds of the northern borders had not only made them skilled in warfare but also made them sure of their own rights, and they took grave offense when lands in Cumbria which they felt were their reward for helping the King were granted to a rival.

Early in July 1403, Sir Henry Percy rode south to his Cheshire lands with about 200 men, intending to raise a large force , including numbers of Welsh archers. By July 12th, the King was enroute to face the threat when he heard whilst at Nottingham of the Percy forces' actions. He immediately turned via Burton on Trent and Lichfield preparing to take the field wherever it became necessary. The Percy forces were somewhat deflated when the hoped for Welsh support failed to materialise and only physical and moral pressure induced many of them to stay with the army. Both armies arrived in the vicinity of Shrewsbury from opposite directions a day or so before the battle. The Percy forces encamped around Berwick to the north west of the town., while the King's forces lay in wait to the north east around Haughmond. During the night of the 20th, the royal forces began the crossing of the Severn at Uffington and took the field below Haughmond Abbey. This gave them the wider ground on which their superior numbers could be brought to best use. The Percy army was forced to take the field on unfavourable ground, and although the Percy's had greater military experience than the King, many of their troops did not. Numbers given for the combatants range from 60,000 - 14 ,000 Royalists and 20,000 - 5,000 rebels. For some hours on the morning of the 21st, the two armies faced each other out of arrowshot whilst negotiations took place to try to resolve the position. Eventually, the King seems to have decided that no solution would be reached since the Percies were either too determined in their stance or because they were seeking to bring in surprise reinforcements. The order to advance was given. Both vanguards found themselves subject to such a bombardment of arrows that many were killed within minutes. Once the hand to hand fighting had begun, the royal forces proved superior, and a rash charge from the Percy force led them into disarray and destruction. When the cry went up that Harry Percy (Hotspur) had fallen, resistance crumbled and the slaughter began. Chroniclers of the day recorded that such a slaughter had never been seen or read about in Christian times. Thousands fell . Both sides suffered tremendous casualties, many as the result of the dramatic impact of the use of the English longbow, whose archers were reputed to be able to fire 12 arrows a minute into the enemy ranks - as there were several thousand archers in each force. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shrewsbury

John married Alice WORSLEY. Alice (daughter of Geoffrey DE WORSLEY and Anabel DE HAYDOCK) was born about 1349 in Shipton-under-wychwood, Oxfordshire, England; died on 6 Oct 1427 in Knutsford, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sir Geoffrey de Worsley, who fought in the French wars, married Mary daughter of Sir Thomas de Felton, about 1376; but a divorce was procured in 1381, and Mary retired to a nunnery. (fn. 25) Thereon Sir Geoffrey married Isabel daughter and eventual heir of Sir Thomas de Lathom, but died shortly afterwards leaving a daughter by her named Elizabeth, only one year old. His former wife then left her convent, asserting that she had only entered it by compulsion, and as she also established the validity of her marriage, the infant daughter of Sir Geoffrey lost the inheritance as illegitimate, the manors of Worsley and Hulton passing into the hands of Alice sister of Sir Geoffrey and wife of Sir John Massey. (fn. 26)

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Hugh married Alice WRENBURY in 1356 in Tatton, Rosthern, Cheshire, England, Present UK. Alice was born in 1320 in Oulton Lowe, Northwich, Cheshire, England; died in 1370 in Tatton, Cheshire, England; was buried in 1370 in Tatton, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Geoffrey married Anabel DE HAYDOCK. Anabel was born in 1322 in Haydock, Lancashire, England; died in 1390 in Worsley, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William married Margery LEGH. Margery was born in 1292 in High Legh, Cheshire, England; died in 1338 in Bucklow, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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