William de Shareshull

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• Name	William de Shareshull
  Birth	of Patshull, Staffordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1370	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [1, 2]
  Burial	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I9392	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Adam de Shareshull,   b. of Shareshill, Staffordshire, England d. Between 1271 and 1340
  Mother	Katherine   d. Bef 6 Jul 1359
  Family ID	F6023	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dionisia Purcell   d. Between 10 Mar 1353 and 12 Jul 1357
  Marriage	Abt 1316  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Catherine de Shareshull   d. Aft 1360 + 2. Dyonesia de Shareshull
  Family ID	F5489	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2019

  
  

• Notes

  "King's Serjeant at Law, 1331; Knight of the Bath, Oct 1331; Justice of the King's Bench, 20 Mar 1333-30 May 1333, Justice of the Common Pleas, 30 May 1333-1340 when removed by Edward III on a charge of maladministration; reinstated 10 May 1342 and made chief baron of the exchequer, 2 July 1344; Second Justice of the Common Pleas, from 10 Nov 1345 and Chief Justice, from 26 Oct 1350 to May 1363. Excommunicated by Pope Innocent VI, 1357, for refusing to appear when summoned to answer for a sentence he had delivered against the Bishop of Ely. In 1364, he granted his manor of Alurynton, Shropshire to the Augustinian priory in Osney. In 1369 he withdrew to the Franciscan house at Oxford where he died." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.