Sir John Maltravers

From Collectanea topographica et genealogica (Google eBook) Collectanea topographica et genealogica 1836. Page 77. "Pedigree of Maltravers, Baron Maltravers."

The pedigree of the Baronial Family of Mautravers or Maltravers, owing to the frequent repetition of a favourite name, has ever been a source of much perplexity to the genealogist. Not only has the patronymic of John descended from generation to generation, but in two instances we find it borne by brothers, increasing exceedingly the difficulty complained of. Thus the history of a family, conspicuous in the criminal annals of our country by the participation of one of its members in the murder of his Sovereign (Edward the Second), and again in the death of the brother of that Sovereign (the Earl of Kent), has been buried in the tomb of obscurity.
In this very imperfect and erroneous genealogy a generation is omitted between the first and second descents; and another between the second and John Maltravers of Hooke. It is true that fuller information has since been published in Hutchins's Dorsetshire, where a pedigree of Maltravers, of Litchet, will be found in vol. iii. p. 19, and one of Maltravers, of Hooke, in vol. ii. p. 492; but the former of these is much confused by the introduction of the wife of John Maltravers, of Melbury Sampford, temp. Ric. II. to the side of John his great-grandfather, temp. Edw. II. which error is partly, but not wholly, removed in Banks's Extinct Peerage; whilst the last-named author acknowledges himself to be entirely at a loss respecting the Melbury Sampford branch.
The following table comprises the whole of the genealogical information given in Dugdale's Baronage.