Walter Lucy (abt. 1380 - 1444)

Ancestors

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Walter Lucy is in trails badged by the Magna Carta Project to several surety barons (see text below).

Biography

Birth and Parentage

Walter Lucy was the son of Reginald Lucy and Margaret Mowbray.^[1][2][3] His birth date is uncertain. His wife was age 24 in 1407^[1], suggesting that he may have been born about 1380.

Life

In 1415 he was a commissioner in the Welsh Marches.^[3]

Walter fought in France in 1419/20 with Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March^[3] and was one of his advisers.^[1] He also held the office of Joint Warden of the Welsh Marches.^[1]

He held lands in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Worcestershire and elsewhere. His wife brought him lands in Cornwall and elsewhere.^[1]

Marriage and Children

He married Eleanor de l'Arcedekne before 7 February 1402.^[1] They had three children:

• William Lucy, Knt., married (1) Margaret Neville, (2) Elizabeth Percy, (3) Margaret Fitz Lewis^[1][2][3]
• Eleanor Lucy, married Thomas Hopton^[1][2]
• Maud Lucy, married William Vaux, Knt.^[1][2]

Death and burial of Walter Lucy and his wife Eleanor

Walter died on 4 October 1444.^[1][2][3] His Will, dated 18 July 1444^[1][2][3], was proved on 5 February 1445 and provided for masses to be said at a chapel in the lordship of Richard's Castle, on the borders of Herefordshire and Shripshire.^[1][2]

His widow Eleanor died on 20 July 1447.^[1][2][3]

Both Walter and Eleanor were buried in the chancel of the Friars Minor (Franciscans) at Worcester.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume III, pp. 65-67, LUCY 8
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol III, pp 658-661 LUCY 13 and 14
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} G E Cokayne, Complete Peerage, new edition, volume VIII, St Catherine Press, 1932, pp. 261-262

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
• Walter Lucy, in Marlyn Lewis, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins", accessed September 30, 2015).

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Magna Carta Project

Walter Lucy is a descendant of Magna Carta Surety Barons William de Mowbray, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigodin badged trails to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Nathaniel Littleton (MCA III:33-35 LITTLETON): trails were badged in December 2017 and are outlined HERE.
• Richard More (MCA III:173-175 MORE): trail was badged 28 May 2020. These trails are set out HERE.

Walter Lucy also appears in unbadged trails (needing work) to the following Gateways:

• John Oxenbridge (MCA III:289-294 OXENBRIDGE): trails have not yet been developed and are set out HERE.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".