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

• Vincent Mundy of Markeaton, his heir.^[3]
• George Mundy of Markeaton, who died without issue.^[3]
• Christopher Mundy of Markeaton, who died without issue.^[3]
• Thomas Mundy of Markeaton alias Wandsworth, the last Prior of Bodmin Priory.^[4][3][5][6] Before the Dissolution of Bodmin in 1539 Prior Thomas granted favourable long leases on most of the priory's possessions to his friends and relatives, including Rialton to his brother John Mundy^[7] and Padstow to his niece Joanna Prideaux.^[8]
• John Mundy of Markeaton and Rialton, Cornwall. He was admitted to the Middle Temple and married Joan Man, by whom he had progeny including:
  • Katherine Mundy, who married Lawrence Kendall, esquire, of Withiel, Cornwall.^[4][3]
  • Joanna Mundy, wife of William Prideaux (d.1564)^[9] of Trevose, St Meryn, Cornwall, who on 20 October 1537 received a 99-year lease of the manor of Padstow from Thomas Munday, the last Prior of Bodmin.^[10] William's nephew Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550-1627), MP, built Prideaux Place in 1592 within the manor of Padstow.

Daughters

• Margaret Mundy of Markeaton, who married firstly Nicholas Jennings, a member of the Worshipful Company of Skinners and a Sheriff and Alderman of the City of London; secondly, as his third wife, Edmund Howard, Lord Deputy of Calais, younger son of the Duke of Norfolk and therefore became stepmother to Queen Katherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII by whom she had no issue; and thirdly Henry Mannox. Although Steinman conjectured that Margaret Mundy's third husband was the Henry Mannox, executed in 1541, who had been music master to Katherine Howard in her youth, and had been involved in sexual indiscretions with her which later contributed to her downfall,^[11] Bindoff established that Margaret Mundy's third husband, Henry Mannox, made his will on 18 March 1564, in which he disinherited both Margaret and his son.^[12] Margaret (née Mundy) was buried at Streatham, Surrey, on 22 January 1565.^[13][3]
• Mildred Mundy of Markeaton, who married, by dispensation dated 27 June 1538, Sir John Harleston (18 May 1511 – 28 February 1569) of South Ockendon, Essex.^[14][3]
• Elizabeth Mundy of Markeaton, who married Sir John Tyrrell (d.1574) son of James Tyrrell of Gipping, Suffolk. Who is best known for allegedly confessing to the murders of the Princes in the Tower under Richard of York's orders^[3]
• Anne Mundy of Markeaton, who married Thomas Darcy (c.1511-1557) of Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex.^[3]

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. Burke 1835, p. 25.
4. 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.

References

• Bindoff, S.T. (1982). The House of Commons 1509-1558 II. London: Secker & Warburg.
• Brown, James Roberts (1888). "Jno. and Wm. Browne, Sheriffs and Lord Mayors of London". Notes and Queries. 7th (London: John C. Francis) V: 151–3. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
• Burke, John (1835). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland I. London: Henry Colburn. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
• Maclean, John (1877). "The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Wandsworth, Last Prior of Bodmin". Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (Truro: James R. Netherton) V (XIX): 349–57. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. pp. 361–2, 418, 473. ISBN 1449966381.
• Smith, David M., ed. (2008). Heads of Religious Houses England & Wales, III. 1377-1540 III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 383. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
• Steinman, G. Steinman (1869). Althorp Memoirs. Printed for Private Circulation. pp. 55–57. Retrieved 7 July 2013.

External links

• Will of Sir John Mundy, goldsmith and alderman of London, proved 26 September 1537, PROB 11/27/118, National Archives Retrieved 7 July 2013
• Will of Dame Julian Mundy, widow, proved 26 September 1537, PROB 11/27/117, National Archives Retrieved 7 July 2013
• Will of Vincent Mundy of Islington, Middlesex , proved 23 October 1573, PROB 11/55/413, National Archives Retrieved 7 July 2013
• Will of Sir John Tyrrell of Gipping, Suffolk, proved 22 June 1574, PROB 11/56/322, National Archives Retrieved 7 July 2013
• Mannock, Henry (by 1526-64), of London; Haddenham, Cambridgeshire; and Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, History of Parliament Retrieved 7 July 2013
• The Mundy Arms, Mackworth Retrieved 7 July 2013