Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

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Joan had to plead for his release. King Edward also took control of Joan‘s
household and her property, hence the debt. Eventually her father
relented, released Monthermer from prison in August 1297, and allowed
him to hold the title of Earl of Gloucester and Hereford during Joan's
lifetime. But John Bluet had to wait another three years before he was no
longer looked on with disfavour for having backed Joan and probably only
then because he gave good service in Scotland.
King Edward I was in Wiltshire in April and May 1302, when he was
staying at Devizes Castle. During his visit he let Sir John Bluet off a fine
that had been imposed when John had appeared
before… the king‘s justices recently appointed to enquire
concerning certain trespasses of venison against him [the
King] in the Forest of Wolvemer as the king has given him
such respite 429
This pardon was only formally granted in 1303 by reason of his
service in Scotland when the King was in Dundee This was yet
another excursion into Scotland that had not been much fun; earlier
that year, in February, the English had been routed at the Battle of
Roslin when Sir John Seagrave‘s 30,000 English were beaten by
8,000 Scots under various commanders 430 . John Bluet was not
involved in this campaign.
In 1306 Joan, the king‘s daughter for whom John Bluet had stood
surety, died and her IPM shows that Sir John had land, houses and a
water mill in Monmouthshire 431 but that it was only a lifetime tenure
and they was not inherited by John‘s heirs.
429
Calendar Patent Roll Edw I vol 4 1301 – 1307 dated October 18 1303 p164
430
including Wallace, Comyn, Fraser, St. Clair , Somerfield of Carnwarth, Simon
of the Lee, Fleming of Cumbernauld and the Knights of the Hospital at
Torphichen.
431
Inquisitions Post Mortem vol IV 24-35 Edw I no435, p326
Little Lantrissen on Usk [Monmouth] houses with garden, …. 175a 1r in the hand
of John Bluet for life of the gift of Sir Ralph de Monte Hermeri whereof a part
remains void after the war, a water mill held by the said John Bluet Lantrissen
tenements which descended to the said earl by hereditary right viz ¼ knights
fee held by John Bluet for life of the gift of Sir Ralph de Monte Hermeri
Ralph de Monte Hermeri is now more usually referred to as Ralph de
Monthemer, Joan‘s second husband (see previous page)