John Mundy (mayor)

[
right|thumb|Arms: — Per pale, Gules and Sable, on a cross, engrailed, Argent, five lozenges, Purpure; on a chief, Or, three eagles' legs, erased, a-la-quise, Azure] Sir John Mundy, Lord Mayor of London, a native of High-Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, settled in Derbyshire in the reign of Henry VIII. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50706 Magna Brittanica] , Daniel and Samuel Lysons, Volume 5, 1817] ] Sir John Mundy was a goldsmith. He purchased the manor of Markeaton in 1516 as well as Mackworth and Allestree which are all now parts of Derby from Lord Audley. [ [http://derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk/derbymarkeaton.htm derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk] ] . Six years later he became the Lord Mayor of London and was knighted in 1529 (some say 1523). [Notes and Queries By William John Thomas, Doran (John), Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar. Pub 1850] He died in 1538.

Mundy married twice and had children with his second wife Juliana Brown
* Vincent Mundy, his heir
* George
* Christopher
* Thomas was Prior of Bodmin in the time of Henry VIII
* John of Ryalton in Cornwall
* Margaret married Nicholas Jennings alderman of London and secondly Edmond Howard lord deputy of Clay his second wife and thirdly Henry Mannox
* Eleanor m to John Harleston esq of South Ockenden in Essex
*?Elizabeth m to Sir John Tyrrell knt of Gypping in the county of Suffolk
* Jane married Sir Thomas Darcy of Tolleshant Darcy, Essex
* Mildred [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Nicholas+Heath%22+mundy&client=firefox-a&pg=PA25&ci=37,971,402,544&source=bookclip">A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank But Uninvested with Heritable Honours] By John Burke]

Mundy's descendants built Markeaton Hall and served as High Sheriff's and Members of parliament for Derbyshire. (e.g. Francis Noel Clarke Mundy)

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External links

[http://www.pub-explorer.com/derbyshire/pub/mundyarmsmackworth.htm The Mundy Arms in Mackworth]