Monarch Edward II Died 1353 Role Politician | Name David Flitwick Children Eleanor | |
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Parents Sir David Flitwick (1266-1311) & Lora Gumbaud/Gobaud | ||
Sir David Flitwick (1281-1353) K.B., of Flitwick, Bedfordshire was an English politician and soldier of the Anglo-Scots Wars who followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, also Sir David Flitwick.
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Career and life
Flitwick answered King Edward's call to arms to march upon the Scots and was made a Knight of the Bath at the Feast of the Swans alongside 266 other men including his brother-in-law Sir William Marmion (a candidate to be the Knight of Norham Castle and inspiration for Walter Scott's poem Marmion).
He was summoned to Parliament for the Bedfordshire constituency on 8 Jul 1313 and again on 23 Sep 1313.
The Inquisition post mortem held in 1353 found Sir David to have been in possession of the manor of Flitwick in Bedfordshire and another in 1355 determined he also held Brendhall manor in Harlow, Essex and Ringstead (Ringstone?) and Leasingham manors in Lincolnshire and parcels of land at Anwick, Haconby and Killingholme. Ringstone and Leasingham seem to have passed to the Marmion family.
Family
Sir David was succeeded by;
His sister, Lucy, married the Leicestershire M.P. Sir William Marmion, K.B.