John Mundy (mayor)

Arms of Mundy: Per pale gules and sable, on a cross engrailed argent five lozenges purpure on a chief or, three eagle's legs erased a-la-quise, azure

Sir John Mundy (died 1537) was a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and was Lord Mayor of London in 1522.

Origins

John Mundy was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the son of William Mundy.[1] The Mundys descend from Godfrey, Count of Mondaye, a Norman noble from Juaye-Mondaye, who was one of the proven companions of William the Conqueror and fought at the Battle of Hastings. Once established in England, originally the family was known as Mondaye, later as Munday, and by the time of Sir John, as Mundy.

Career

In 1515 Mundy served as a Sheriff of London. in 1522 he became Lord Mayor of London. He was knighted by King Henry VIII in 1529 (some say 1523).[2]

Landholdings

In 1516 he purchased from Lord Audley the manors of Markeaton, Mackworth and Allestree, all now part of the City of Derby.

Marriages and issue

Sir John Mundy married twice, firstly to a lady named Margaret, whose surname is unknown. He married secondly Juliana Browne (d.1537), the daughter of his mayoral predecessor, Sir Sir William Browne (d.1514), and granddaughter of two mayors, Sir John Browne and Sir Edmund Shaa, by whom he had five sons and four daughters.

Sons

Daughters

Death

He died in 1537.

Descendants

Sir John Mundy's descendants built Markeaton Hall and served as High Sheriffs and Members of Parliament for Derbyshire, (e.g. Francis Noel Clarke Mundy). His direct descendants today have the surname Markeaton-Mundy. They include Simon Godfrey Markeaton-Mundy, Duke of Markeaton, Charles Markeaton-Mundy, Count of Mondaye and Chancellor of Foreign Affairs of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Ecumenical Knights of Malta, Ivan Joseph Markeaton-Mundy, Charis Maria Markeaton-Mundy, Sandra Markeaton-Mundy, Countess of Checkendon.

Notes

  1. The Universal Magazine, September 1749, p. 140
  2. Notes and Queries by William John Thoms, John Doran, Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar. Pub 1850
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Burke 1835, p. 25.
  4. 1 2 Richardson II 2011, p. 473.
  5. Maclean 1877, pp. 349-57.
  6. Smith 2008, p. 383.
  7. Acorn Archive
  8. Delderfield, Eric R., West Country Historic Houses and their Families, Newton Abbot, 1968, p.120, Prideaux Place
  9. "The Visitation of the County of Cornwall in the year 1620," p. 152, online at https://archive.org/stream/visitationofcoun09stge#page/152/mode/2up
  10. Acorn Archive
  11. Steinman, pp. 56–57.
  12. Bindoff 1982, p. 564.
  13. Richardson II 2011, p. 418.
  14. Richardson II 2011, pp. 361-2.

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