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English nobleman, probably a squire (later a Lord-Chief Justice) Barrau de Sescas ~1270–1325 Gascony He was a Gascon Knight, vassal of Albret and a supporter of the English, he served as admiral of Bayonne fleet and captain of the coast Richard Stapledon ~1260–1326 Devon A knight, judge, and elder brother of Walter de Stapledon. In 1326 he ...
[3] [4] The final years of the thirteenth century had seen a dramatic fall-off in the upper level of the nobility, as six earls had died from 1295 to 1298. The earldoms of Hereford and Essex , Hertford and Gloucester , [a] Lancaster , Oxford and Warwick had been filled by 1300, while that of Pembroke had to wait until 1307.
Pages in category "13th-century English nobility" ... List of nobles and magnates of England in the 13th century; 0–9. List of peers 1200–1209;
13th-century English nobility (2 C, 257 P) F. 13th-century French nobility (5 C, 201 P) H. 13th-century nobility from the Holy Roman Empire (2 C, 33 P)
From the early Middle Ages until early modern times, the nobility was the true basis of power for the English crown. The peerage was where the king would turn for military, judicial and administrative purposes, and the ruler who ignored his nobility, like Edward II, did so at great risk to his position.
Sir Hugh de Audley of Stratton Audley (c. 1267 – 1325), Lord of Stratton Audley, was a 13th- and 14th-century English noble.During his life he acted as Constable of Montgomery Castle, Sheriff of Shropshire, Sheriff of Staffordshire, Justice of North Wales, Keeper of Selkirk Forest, [1] and acted as an ambassador to France.
13th-century English nobility (2 C, 257 P) 14th-century English nobility (2 C, 251 P) 15th-century English nobility (2 C, 207 P) A. Anglo-Saxon ealdormen (3 C, 27 P)
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry.The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although the hereditary peerage now retain only the rights to stand for election to the House of Lords, dining rights there, position in the formal order of precedence, the right to certain titles, and the right ...