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.

[1] The troubles of his later years were due largely to the actions of his son Giles, who was accused of wasting the inheritance of his infant stepson and ward.

[2] 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.

[4] He played a very active role in local politics: he served on several commissions of oyer and terminer in his native county,[1] and sat as MP for Northamptonshire in the House of Commons in the Parliament of 1351–2.

[1] For more than a decade after his release from the Tower Peter lived quietly on his estates,[2] but he was drawn into fresh controversy after 1374, when his son Sir Giles Mallore married Joan Baskerville (née de Eveningham), widow of Sir Richard Baskerville of Eardisley, Herefordshire, without a royal licence (which was required for marriage to a widow).

[9] 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.

Sir Thomas Wale (died 1352), founder knight of the Garter: he was Peter's uncle, from whom he inherited large estates in Northamptonshire
Eardisley, Herefordshire: Peter was drawn into controversy after his son, who married into the Baskerville family, was accused of despoiling the estate