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[[File:Ranulf le meschin.svg|thumb|220px|Arms of Cherleton: ''Or, a lion gules'']]
[[File:Park Hall castlesoldmansio00actouoft 0104.jpg|thumb|220px|Park Hall, near [[Oswestry]], built by Francis Charlton, from a branch of the Charltons of [[Apley Castle]]<ref>[https://archive.org/details/castlesoldmansio00actouoft/page/n103/mode/2up The castles & old mansions of Shropshire], Acton, Frances Stackhouse, Shrewsbury Leake and Evans, 1868, p. 34-35</ref>]]
'''John Charlton''' (also '''Charleton''' or '''Cherleton'''), '''3rd Baron Cherleton, 3rd Lord Charlton of Powys''' (c. 1336–1374).<ref name=DNBJohnI>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Charlton, John de |volume=10 |page=126}}</ref> He was the son of [[John Charlton, 2nd Baron Charlton|John Charleton, 2nd Baron Cherleton]] (d. 1360) and his wife, Maud Mortimer, daughter of [[Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March]].<ref name=DNBJohnI /> His marriage to Joan de Stafford, a daughter of [[Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford]] had been arranged by his brilliant grandfather ([[John Charleton, 1st Baron Cherleton]]) in 1343.
He became the uncle of many prominent members of the nobility such as [[Thomas Stafford, 3rd Earl of Stafford]], who married to [[Anne of Gloucester|Anne Plantagenet]], daughter of [[Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester]], [[Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford]], who became the father of [[Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham]], Joan Stafford who married to [[Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey]], among others.
He was also brother-in-law of Ralph de Stafford, who married to Countess [[Maud, Countess of Leicester|Maud of Lancaster]], daughter of [[Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster]] and [[Isabel de Beaumont]]. She remarried a second time to [[William I, Duke of Bavaria]], a son of [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor]], and member of the Royal [[House of Wittelsbach]].
He succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Cherleton in 1360.
He is reported in the muster rolls for 1372 as being of the rank of [[Knight Banneret|Banneret]] leading 22 archers and men-at-arms on a naval expedition under the leadership of [[Edward III of England|King Edward III]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/ |title= Online muster roll database 1369 - 1453. |accessdate=2009-07-21}}</ref>
He had two sons, [[John Charleton, 4th Baron Cherleton|John]] and [[Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton|Edward]] who later became the 4th and 5th lords Cherleton.
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