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BARON DE SIR WALTER DE MANNY MANNY (d...

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BARON DE See also:SIR See also:WALTER DE See also:MANNY MANNY (d. 1372)  , soldier of See also:fortune and founder of the See also:Charterhouse, younger son of See also:jean de Mauny, known as Le Borgne de Mauny, by his wife Jeanne de Jenlain, was a native of See also:Hainaut, from whose See also:counts he claimed descent . See also:Manny—the name is thus spelt by most See also:English writers—was a See also:patron and friend of See also:Froissart, in whose See also:chronicles his exploits have a conspicuous and probably an exaggerated See also:place . He appears to have first come to See also:England as an See also:esquire of See also:Queen Philippa in 1327, and he took'a distinguished See also:part in the Scottish See also:wars of See also:Edward III . In 1337 he was placed in command of an English See also:fleet, and in the following See also:year accompanied Edward to the See also:continent, where in the See also:campaigns of the next few years he proved himself one of the boldest and ablest of the English See also:king's military commanders . He was summoned to See also:parliament as a See also:baron by See also:writ from the 12th of See also:November 1347 to the 8th of See also:January 1371 . In 1359 he was made a See also:knight of the Garter; and at various times he received extensive grants of See also:land both in England and in See also:France . He was frequently employed by King Edward in the conduct of See also:diplomatic negotiations as well as in military commands . ,He was one of those charged with the safe custody of the See also:French king See also:John when a prisoner at See also:Calais in 1360; in 1369 he was second in command under John of Gaunt in his invasion of France . But Manny is chiefly remembered for his See also:share in the See also:foundation of the Charterhouse in See also:London . In 1349 he bought some acres of land near Smithfield, which were consecrated as a burying-place where large See also:numbers of the victims of the See also:Black See also:Death were interred; and here he built a See also:chapel, from which the place obtained the name of Newchurchhaw." The chapel and ground were bought from Manny by the See also:bishop of London, See also:Michael de Northburgh, who died in 1361 and by his will bequeathed a large sum of See also:money to found there a Carthusian See also:convent . It is not clear whether this direction was ever carried out; for in 1371 Manny obtained letters patent from King Edward III. permitting him to found, apparently on the same site, a Carthusian monastery called " La Salutation See also:Mere Dieu," where the monks were to pray for the soul of Northburgh as well as for the soul of Manny himself . The bishop's See also:bequest may have contributed to the See also:building and endowment of the See also:house; or possibly, as seems to be implied by a See also:bull granted by See also:Urban VI, in 1378, there were originally two kindred establishments owing their foundation to Northburgh and Manny respectively .

At all events Manny, who died See also:

early in 1372, See also:left instructions that he was to be buried in the See also:church of the Carthusian monastery founded by himself . About 1335 he married See also:Margaret, daughter and heiress of See also:Thomas See also:Plantagenet, See also:earl of See also:Norfolk, son of King Edward I., whose first See also:husband had been John, See also:Lord See also:Segrave . This See also:lady, who outlived Manny by many years, was countess of Norfolk in her own right, and she was created duchess of Norfolk in 1397 . Manny left no surviving son . His daughter See also:Anne, Baroness de Manny in her own right, married John See also:Hastings, 2nd earl of See also:Pembroke; and on the death of her only son unmarried in 1389, the See also:barony of Manny became See also:extinct . See Euvres de Froissart, I . Chroniques, edited by Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove (See also:Brussels, 1867-1877), and the Globe edition of Froissart's Chronicles (Eng. trans., London, 1895) ; G . F . Beltz, Memorials of the Most See also:Noble See also:Order of the Garter (London, 1841); Chronicon Angliae 1323-1388, edited by E . Maunde See also:Thompson (Rolls See also:series 64, London, 1874); See also:Philip Bearcroft, An See also:Historical See also:Account of Thomas See also:Sutton and of his Foundation in Charterhouse (London, 1737) .

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