William de Herle

Bef 1270 - 1347  (> 77 years)

• Name	William de Herle  [1]
  Birth	Bef 1270	of Caldecote, Warwickshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Mar 1347  [4, 5, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I10261	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of XYZ
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2016

  
  

  Father	Robert de Herle
  Family ID	F5686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret   d. Bef 1339
  Children	+ 1. Margaret de Herle   d. Aft Nov 1346
  Family ID	F5198	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2016

  
  

• 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.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., date only. [S70] The Victoria County History of Warwickshire. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk., place only. [S70] The Victoria County History of Warwickshire. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk., year only. [S154] The Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1915., year only. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S1389] A History of Northumberland in Three Parts, Part II, Vol. I, by John Hodgson. Newcastle: 1827., year only.