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2 - Careers of major players

from Appendices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

J. S. Bothwell
J. S. Bothwell
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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Summary

Sources: A Perfect Copy of All Summons of the Nobility to the Great Councils and Parliaments of the Realm; The Complete Peerage; Dictionary of National Biography; Handbook of British Chronology; Calendars of: Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Fine Rolls.

Only major offices are listed, namely those of the level of sheriff or above. Date in brackets indicates the year(s) in which the appointment was made.

Established Nobility

Beauchamp, Thomas (Earl of Warwick – 1329) d.1369

Captain of the Army against the Scots (1337); Warden of the March of Scotland (1337); Keeper of Southampton (1339); Marshal of England (1344); Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire (1344); Admiral of the Western Fleet (1353); Constable of the Army (1355)

Berkeley, Thomas (summoned 1329–60) d.1361

Chief Warden of Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford (1336); Sheriff of Gloucestershire (1338); Marshal of the English Army in France (1340); Captain of the Scottish Marches (1342); Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre South of Trent (1345)

Burghersh, Bartholomew (I) (summoned 1330–54) d.1355

Captain and Admiral of the Western Fleet (1337); Constable of Dover Castle/Warden of the Cinque Ports (1343, 1346); Chamberlain of the Royal Household (1355); Constable of the Tower of London (1355)

Dacre, Randolf (I) (summoned 1321–38) d.1339

Sheriff of Cumberland (1330); Keeper of the Castle of Carlisle (1330); Warden of the March of Cumberland (1333); Warden of the Marches of Cumberland and Westmoreland (1334, 1336)

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Edward III and the English Peerage
Royal Patronage, Social Mobility and Political Control in Fourteenth-Century England
 , pp. 167 - 169
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2004

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