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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 756 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DYMOKE , the name of an See also:

English See also:family holding the See also:office of See also:king's See also:champion. The functions of the champion were to ride into See also:Westminster See also:Hall at the See also:coronation banquet, and See also:challenge all corners to impugn the king's See also:title (see CHAMPION). The earliest See also:record of the ceremony at the coronation of an English king See also:dates from the See also:accession of See also:Richard II. On this occasion the champion was See also:Sir See also:John Dymoke (d. 1381), who held the See also:manor of Scrivelsby, See also:Lincolnshire, in right of his wife See also:Margaret, granddaughter of See also:Joan See also:Ludlow, who was the daughter and co-heiress of See also:Philip Marmion, last See also:Baron Marmion. The Marmions claimed descent from the lords of Fontenay, hereditary champions of the See also:dukes of See also:Normandy, and held the See also:castle of See also:Tamworth, See also:Leicestershire, and the manor of Scrivelsby, See also:Lincoln-See also:shire. The right to the championship was disputed with the Dymoke family by Sir See also:Baldwin de Freville, See also:lord of Tamworth, who was descended from an See also:elder daughter of Philip Marmion. The See also:court of claims eventually decided in favour of the owners of Scrivelsby on the ground that Scrivelsby was held in See also:grand See also:serjeanty, that is, that its See also:tenure was dependent on, rendering a See also:special service, in this See also:case the championship. Sir See also:Thomas Dymoke (1428?-1471) joined a Lancastrian rising in 1469, and, with his See also:brother-in-See also:law Richard, Lord See also:Willoughby and See also:Welles, was beheaded in 1471 by See also:order of See also:Edward IV. after he had been induced to leave See also:sanctuary on a promise of See also:personal safety. The estates were restored to his son Sir See also:Robert Dymoke (d. 1546), champion at the coronations of Richard III., See also:Henry VII. and Henry VIII., who distinguished himself at the See also:siege of See also:Tournai and became treasurer of the See also:kingdom. His descendants acted as champions at successive coronations.

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Lewis Dymoke (d. 182o) put in an unsuccessful claim before the See also:House of Lords for the See also:barony of Marmion. His See also:nephew Henry (18oI-1865) was champion at the coronation of See also:George IV. He was accompanied on that occasion by the See also:duke of See also:Wellington and Lord See also:Howard of Effingham. Henry Dymoke was created a See also:baronet; he was succeeded by his brother John, See also:rector of Scrivelsby (1804-1873), whose son Henry Lionel died without issue in 1875, when the baronetcy became See also:extinct, the See also:estate passing to a See also:collateral See also:branch of the family. After the coronation of George IV. the ceremony was allowed to See also:lapse, but at the coronation of King Edward VII. H. S. Dymoke See also:bore the See also:standard of See also:England in Westminster See also:Abbey.

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