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Sir Robert Rede KS (died 7 or 8 January 1519) was an English Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

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Biography

Rede was the son of William Rede of Wrangle, Lincolnshire, a Calais merchant, and his wife Joan. [1] He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1467, [1] (although he may have previously been a member of Clement's Inn) and gave his first reading there in 1481. In 1486 he was made a Serjeant-at-law, followed by a promotion in 1494 to King's Serjeant, and an appointment in 1495 as a justice of the Court of King's Bench, where he sat for 10 years under Sir John Fineux, and was knighted for his services in 1501. He was transferred to the Court of Common Pleas in 1506 and promoted to Chief Justice, a position he held until his death. Rede also served as one of the executors of King Henry VII's will. [2]

Rede married the daughter of John Alfegh (or Alphay), a fellow member of Lincoln's Inn, and under the terms of his marriage settlement acquired lands in Hoo. Alfegh had built Bore Place in Chiddingstone, Kent, and this property later came to Rede and his wife in 1489 under the terms of Alfegh's will. [1]

Rede died on 7 or 8 January 1519. [1] He left a £4 annual stipend to finance three lectureships at Jesus College, Cambridge, one for logic, one for moral philosophy and one for the humanities. Although these positions had been provided since 1480, the stipend helped secure the position. From 1858 the fund was used to support a single annual lecture, known as the Rede Lecture, a practice that has continued to this day.

Marriage and issue

In the 1470s Rede married Margaret Alfegh, daughter of John Alphegh, by whom he had two sons and five daughters: [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Baker 2004.
  2. ↑ The National Archives Prob 11/40, ff.289-91.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Nicolas 1836, p. 560.

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