Peter Mallore

Sir Peter Mallore (or Mallory; died c. 1380) was a prominent landowner and local politician in fourteenth-century Northamptonshire, who also served as a judge in Ireland. His career was marked by controversy: he was imprisoned on at least two occasions, the second time for assaulting another judge. Fortunately for his career, Sir Peter enjoyed the personal regard of a number of influential men, notably the Black Prince and King David II of Scotland. was this Peter's cousin. On Wale's death in 1352 Peter, as the next male heir, inherited substantial estates, including Litchborough and Weedon Pinkeney. In 1358 the Crown granted him £20 from the Exchequer of Ireland on foot of his own petition to the King. In the same year he was granted custody of the lands formerly held by Sir Eustace le Poer in County Kilkenny, which had been forfeited for le Poer's role in the rebellion of Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond in 1345/6. and Joan was confirmed in her right of dower in the Baskerville lands (usually a right to one-third of the property). despite the fact that they were the legal guardians of the Baskerville heir, Joan's son (or stepson) Richard, who was still an infant, having been about four years old when his father died, which was a few months before Joan remarried Giles. Peter was required to stand surety for his son and daughter-in-law's good behaviour, while a lengthy inquiry by the Crown into their alleged misconduct dragged on into the 1380s.

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