John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels

John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels (1269 – 20 May 1310), feudal baron of North Cadbury in Somerset, was an English peer.

He was the second son of Roger de Moels (c.1233-1295) the eldest surviving son and heir of Nicholas de Moels (died 1269), feudal baron of a moiety of North Cadbury, Somerset.

From 1296 to 1309 he received various summonses for military service against the Scots and in Flanders. He was summoned to attend the king at Salisbury 24 February 1296/7 and to a military council at Rochester 8 September 1297. In 1297 the Sheriff of Dorset was ordered to provide housing within Sherborne Castle for John and his wife "to live in during the king's pleasure".

He was summoned to Parliament on several occasions, firstly on 6 February 1298/9, when he is deemed to have become 1st Baron Moels ("seal of John de Moels"). In the Parliament held at Westminster on 28 February 1304/5 he was one of the persons who mainperned William de Montagu, who together with Amauri de St Amand had been imprisoned in the Tower of London.

He had children (The Complete Peerage states, "In 1297 the sheriff of Dorset was ordered to deliver to John houses within the castle of Sherborne sufficient for himself and his wife to live in..." ), who married Margaret Courtenay (died 1349) daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay (died 1292), feudal baron of Okehampton by his wife Eleanor le Despencer, without male issue.) John de Moels, 4th Baron Moels (died before 21 August 1337 Johanna de Moels, wife of Sir Henry VII de la Pomeray (1291–1327), feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy in Devon.