John Maunsell served as chancellor to King Henry III and was England's first secretary of state.
16 Facts About John Maunsell
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John Maunsell's grandfather, Robert Mansel, was a Templar under Baron Gilbert de Lacy in Palestine.
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John Maunsell is first heard of when he was sent from Scotland as orator from Alexander, King of Scotland in 1215 to the court of John.
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John Maunsell became a favorite of the young King Henry III and was appointed to the vacant prebend of Thame by Henry, but Robert Grosseteste, a reforming bishop with strong feelings about ecclesiastical rights and privileges, refused to admit him.
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Reportedly, John Maunsell took the Thame church by force before giving up his claim to the prebend.
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John Maunsell's benefices included the livings of Haughley, Howden and Bawburgh and prebends of Tottenhall, South Malling and Chichester.
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John Maunsell was Provost of Beverley, Chancellor of St Paul's, London, Dean of Wimborn, Rector of Wigan, Papal chaplain, and King's chaplain.
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John Maunsell fought with a contingent of English under Henry de Turbeville in the aid of Frederick II, King of Germany in the north of Italy in 1238.
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John Maunsell fought alongside Henry III in the Battle of Taillebourg during the Saintonge War and took Peter Orige, seneschal of the Count of Boulogne, prisoner.
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John Maunsell was reckoned not least among brave men in this unsuccessful venture against Louis IX of France.
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John Maunsell was seriously wounded while leading an assault in siege of the Verines monastery.
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John Maunsell enjoyed great secular power; the 1258 Provisions of Oxford gave four men the power to elect a council of fifteen to govern the treasury and the chancery.
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John Maunsell was named Seneschal of Gascony in 1243 a post later held by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and subsequently by Prince Edward.
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Alfonso of Castile had his eyes on Gascony and John Maunsell helped to defuse the situation by arranging the marriage of Edward to Alfonso's half-sister, Eleanor in 1254.
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John Maunsell was mediator along with Simon de Montfort in arranging the marriage of Henry's daughter Beatrice with John of Brittany in 1259.
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Burke held that John Maunsell married Joan, daughter of Simon de Beauchamp of Bedford, and had the following issue:.