Gerard de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle
- Gerard de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle
Gerard de Lisle (1304 – 9 June 1360) was an English nobleman and soldier during King Edward III's campaigns in Scotland and France.
He was the son of Sir Warin de Lisle, the Keeper of Windsor Castle, who was executed as an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. He was knighted in 1327. He served on the English side in the Second War of Scottish Independence in 1333 and 1335, under Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel. He served with him again during the Hundred Years War in France and fought at the Battle of Crecy. He was summoned to Parliament as Baron Lisle in 1357.
Lord Lisle lived chiefly at Stowe Nine Churches in Northamptonshire and Kingston Lisle in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). For his second wife, he was contracted to marry Margery, Lady de la Beche, but she was abducted by a certain Sir John Dalton and married him instead. Lord lisle later married Elizabeth, widow of the fourteen-year-old Edmund St John, 3rd Baron St John.
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* [http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/glisle.html Royal Berkshire History: Gerard de Lisle, Lord Lisle (1304-1360)]
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