William de Herle

Notes:

"William Herle began practising as one of the serjeants of the common bench in Michaelmas term 1299, and seems to have been one of several serjeants called to the common-bench bar at that time. Final concord authorizations and law reports show him in regular attendance in the court until 1320. His success at the bar is also shown by the fact that early in the reign of Edward II he was retained by the city of London as one of its counsel, and that in 1315 he became a king's serjeant. Early in Michaelmas term 1320 he replaced John Benstead as a junior justice of the common bench and around this time he was knighted. For three terms in 1321 he was absent from the court while sitting as a justice of the London eyre, hearing civil pleas and quo warranto cases with the chief justice, Hervey Staunton. Otherwise he served continuously as a junior justice of the common bench, until he replaced Staunton as chief justice of the same court early in Hilary term 1327. He left court after Trinity term 1329 to serve as chief justice of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire eyres of 1330-31, but returned to the common bench, as its chief justice, in Easter term 1331; he relinquished this post at the end of Trinity term 1335, though he lived for another twelve years. [...] His heir was his son Robert, who died without issue in 1364, when the Herle lands passed to Ralph Hastings, the son of Robert's sister Margaret." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"He was a benefactor to the monastery of Newminster, where his obit was annually solemnized." [Hodgson, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Margaret. Margaret died before 1339. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph de Hastings. Ralph (son of Nicholas de Hastings and Agnes) was born in of Allerston, Yorkshire, England; died in Nov 1346; was buried in Sulby Abbey, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 25 Oct 1397
• Alternate death: 1398

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Leicestershire, 1364; Warden of the West Marches, 1371; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1376-77; Knight of the shire for Yorkshire, 1378 and 1380; Governor of York Castle; Steward of Pickering.

Fought at Neville's Cross, 1346; later served in Normandy and Brittany, and was present at the Battle of Espagnols-sur-Mer in 1350. Fought at the Battle of Nájera. Accompanied John of Gaunt on his expeditions in 1372 and 1373. Testified in the Scrope-Grosvenor case.

"Sir Ralph Hastings, the son of Sir Ralph Hastings [...] was a retainer of Henry Duke of Lancaster, at the wages of forty marks per annum, to be paid out of the manor of Pickering. In 1372 he was joined in commission with Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, Gilbert de Umframville, Earl of Angus, &c. on the afTairs of the Scottish borders. Four years afterwards, he was employed with the Earl of Warwick, on a similar service. In 1377, and again in 1380, he was Sheriff of Yorkshire and Governor of York Castle." [Testamenta Eboracensia, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Saddington. Isabel (daughter of Robert Sadyngton and Joyce Martival) died before 1379. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Maud Grey before 1379. Maud died after 28 Nov 1423. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

J M Lee and R A McKinley, 'Noseley', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred (London, 1964), pp. 264-270. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp264-270 [accessed 31 August 2016].

VCH Leicestershire (volume 5, "Nosely," pp. 264-270, published 1964) says that this Margaret, who died in 1406, "married twice, first Sir Roger Heron and secondly Sir John Blaket, and her heir was her eldest daughter Isabel Heron." In fact this Isabel was not her "eldest daughter" but the widow (d. 1422) of her son William (d. 1400). Perhaps this error is a result of the several decades of confusion that followed CP's garbled account of the Heron descent.

Family/Spouse: Roger Heron. Roger (son of William Heron and Isabel Gray) was born in of Croydon, Cambridgeshire, England; died before 1400. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel Scot. Isabel (daughter of Richard Scot) was born about 1375 in of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England; died before 20 Aug 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 8 Nov 1400, of Ford, Glendale, Northumberland, England

William married Elizabeth Ogle on 13 Jan 1412. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Heron and John Heron were third cousins, both being great-great grandchildren of William Heron (d. 1379) and Isabel Gray (d. >1362).

Elizabeth married John Heron after 11 Jul 1438. John (son of William Heron and Isabel) was born about 1418 in of Ford, Glendale, Northumberland, England; died on 29 Mar 1461 in Towton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Tailboys before 1467. Robert (son of William Tailboys and Elizabeth Bonville) was born about 1441-1451 in of Kyme, Lincolnshire, England; died on 31 Jan 1494; was buried in Kyme Priory, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]