Manser Marmion

Sir Manser (aka Mauncer) Marmion, of Ringstone in Rippingale and Galby was an English Member of Parliament and Sheriff of Lincolnshire.

Ancestry

His parents were Sir John Marmion ) and his wife Margaret. and Palmer (1875) the family were descended from Manasser Marmion, 6th son of Robert Marmion the Justiciar and the Counts of Rethel (including Manasses I, Manasses II & Manasses III). But Farnham (1929) mentions that Manasser is recorded as being the son of a Sir William Marmion in evidence submitted by the Marmion family of Galby and Keisby at the National Archives and such is confirmed by various petitions.

Career and life

When Manser reached the age of eighteen, his mother Margaret gave him the Manor of Keisby, and in the same year promised to not harm any of the servants of Joan, Countess of Kent, and Humphrey, Earl of Stafford. In 1435, he attended the Shire Court at Leicester. and he held one Knight's fee at Aslackby and Laughton. and 1441 and was appointed to Parliament as Knight of the Shire for Lincolnshire on 30 Jan 1447. and was Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 9 Nov 1448 to 26 Feb 1450. Tailboy's powerful friend William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lord High Admiral of England vigorously defended him from prosecution and is supposed to have pressured Sir Manser, then Sheriff, not to arrest Tailboys. and the income from her Leicestershire estate passed to her son and heir from her first marriage, Robert Walshale, Jnr. (who married Edith daughter of Sir Thomas Berkeley of Wymondham). John and Mauncer Jnr both subsequently served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, in 1460 and 1497, respectively.