David Flitwick (Beds MP 1313)

Sir David Flitwick, K.B.
File:Wappen Creglingen.png Arms of de Flitwick:- "argent, 2 lions passant guardant sable"
M.P. for Bedfordshire
In office 8 Jul 1313 – 1314
Monarch	Edward II
Personal details
Born	1281 Flitwick, Bedfordshire
Died	1353
Children	Eleanor
Parents	Sir David Flitwick (1266-1311) & Lora Gumbaud/Gobaud

Sir David Flitwick (1281-1353) K.B., of Flitwick, Bedfordshire was an English politician and soldier of the Anglo-Scots Wars who followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, also Sir David Flitwick.

Career and Life

Flitwick answered King Edward's call to arms to march upon the Scots and was made a Knight of the Bath at the Feast of the Swans alongside 266 other men including his brother-in-law Sir William Marmion (a candidate to be the Knight of Norham Castle and inspiration for Walter Scott's poem Marmion).

He was summoned to Parliament for the Bedfordshire constituency on 8 Jul 1313 and again on 23 Sep 1313.

The Inquisition post mortem held in 1353 found Sir David to have been in possession of the manor of Flitwick in Bedfordshire and another in 1355 determined he also held Brendhall manor in Harlow, Essex and Ringstead (Ringstone?) and Leasingham manors in Lincolnshire and parcels of land at Anwick, Haconby and Killingholme. Ringstone and Leasingham seem to have passed to the Marmion family.

Family

Sir David was succeeded by;

• Eleanor

His sister, Lucy, married the Leicestershire M.P. Sir William Marmion, K.B.