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Birth1450
Death9 Feb 1499, Pasmer's Place, St Sithes Lane, London
BurialWestminster Abbey
GeneralYr s. dsps. 1st viscount. Fought for H VII. KG 236: 1488; N 15.
FatherLionel Welles Lord Welles (ca1406-1461)
Spouses
ChildrenElizabeth (Died as Infant) (1492-)
 Anne (Died as Child) (1494-1499)
Notes for John Welles Viscount Welles
And 10th baron.
Will notes for John Welles Viscount Welles
In his will, dated February 8 1498, he lists:
The King,
The Queen,
The lady Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby, TKM,
Lady Cecily his wife.
DNB Main notes for John Welles Viscount Welles
Co-subject: Welles, John, first Viscount Welles
Dates: d. 1499
Active Date: 1479
Gender: Male

Article
John Welles, first Viscount Welles d. 1499, son of Lionel, sixth baron, by his second wife, was a Lancastrian, but he is mentioned as a watcher at Edward IV's funeral. He was at the coronation of Richard III, but opposed him at once, and after the insurrection of Buckingham fled to Brittany. He took part in the Bosworth campaign, and was created Viscount Welles by summons to parliament on 1 Sept. 1487. Doubtless as a safe man of the second rank he was allowed to marry, before December 1487, Cecily, daughter of Edward IV, who had been promised to the king of Scotland. He was elected K.G. before 29 Sept. 1488, and died on 9 Feb. 1498-9; he was buried in Westminster Abbey. By his wife Cecily he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, both of whom died young; the viscounty of Welles thus became extinct.

Sources
Excerpta Historica, pp. 282, &c.; Rot. Parl. v. 182, &c., vi. 144, 246, &c.; Wars of English in France (Rolls Ser.), ii. 776, 778; Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. IV, pp. 113, &c.; Cooper's Life of the Lady Margaret, p. 6; Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, i. 96, &c., ii. 3, &c.; Beaucourt's Hist. de Charles VII, vi. 47; Gilbert's Viceroys of Ireland, p. 334; Camden Miscellany, vol. i.; Warkworth's Chron. (Camd. Soc.), pp. 8, 52, 59; Polydore Vergil (Camd. Soc. transl.), pp. 126, 127; Testamenta Vetusta, p. 310; Ramsay's Lancaster and York, i. 415, ii. 185, &c.; G. E. C[okayne]'s Peerage; Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage.

Contributor: W. A. J. A.

published  1899
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