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Roger Mortimer,3rd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore,1st Earl of March,was an English nobleman and powerful Marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland following his advantageous marriage to the wealthy heiress Joan de Geneville,2nd Baroness Geneville. In November 1316,he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1322 for having led the Marcher lords in a revolt against King Edward II in what became known as the Despenser War. He later escaped to France,where he was joined by Edward's queen consort Isabella,where they may have begun an affair. After he and Isabella led a successful invasion and rebellion,Edward was deposed;Mortimer allegedly arranged his murder at Berkeley Castle. For three years,Mortimer was de facto ruler of England before being himself overthrown by Edward's eldest son,Edward III. Accused of assuming royal power and other crimes,Mortimer was executed by hanging at Tyburn.
The Barons of the Exchequer,or barones scaccarii,were the judges of the English court known as the Exchequer of Pleas. The Barons consisted of a Chief Baron of the Exchequer and several puisne (inferior) barons. When Robert Shute was appointed second baron in June 1579 the patent declared "he shall be reputed and be of the same order,rank,estimation,dignity and pre-eminence to all intents and purposes as any puisne judge of either of the two other courts." The rise of commercial trade in Elizabethan England occasioned fraudulent application of the Quo minus writ. More taxation demanded staff at the exchequer to sift an increase in the case load causing more widespread litigation cases to come to the court. From the 1580s onwards the Barons of Exchequer were no longer held in such low regard,and more likely to be Serjeants-at-law before qualification. The Inns of Courts began to exclude solicitors,and held posts for judges and barons open equally to barristers. In 1591,Regulations reflected a case in which the Lord Keeper Egerton banned solicitors from seeking cases in the Exchequer.
Robert de Holland,1st Baron Holand was an English nobleman,born in Lancashire.
Sir Richard Willoughby was an English landowner,politician and judge from Nottinghamshire,who was Chief Justice of the King's Bench for three periods between 1332 and 1340.
Richard Folville was a member of the infamous Folville Gang captained by his older brother Eustace.
Eustace Folville is credited with killing/assassinating the unpopular Sir Roger de Beler,Baron of the Exchequer and henchman of the despised Hugh le Despencer and ineffective King Edward II. He was the most active member of the Folville Gang who engaged in acts of vigilantism and outlawry in Leicestershire in the early 1300s,often on the behalf of others.
The Folville gang were an armed band operating in Leicestershire in the early 14th century,led by Eustace Folville.
Rutland was a parliamentary constituency covering the county of Rutland. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1918,when it became part of the Rutland and Stamford constituency,along with Stamford in Lincolnshire. Since 1983,Rutland has formed part of the Rutland and Melton constituency along with Melton Mowbray from Leicestershire.
Ashby Folville is a village in the Melton district of Leicestershire,south west of Melton Mowbray. The civil parish of Ashby Folville was abolished in 1936 and its 1,796 acres (727 ha) were merged with Gaddesby.
The Despenser War (1321–22) was a baronial revolt against Edward II of England led by the Marcher Lords Roger Mortimer and Humphrey de Bohun. The rebellion was fuelled by opposition to Hugh Despenser the Younger,the royal favourite. After the rebels' summer campaign of 1321,Edward was able to take advantage of a temporary peace to rally more support and a successful winter campaign in southern Wales,culminating in royal victory at the Battle of Boroughbridge in the north of England in March 1322. Edward's response to victory was his increasingly harsh rule until his fall from power in 1326.
Roger Beler was a Baron of the Exchequer and right-hand man of Hugh le Despencer and King Edward II. Beler was killed by the Folville gang in 1326.
John Marmion,Baron Marmion of Winteringham was an Anglo-Norman baron who represented Lincolnshire in Parliament and fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Sir John Marmion,Baron Marmion of Winteringham was an Anglo-Norman baron who represented Lincolnshire in Parliament and fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Sir William de Paris was a Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire and soldier of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Sir Thomas Grey of Heaton Castle in the parish of Cornhill-on-Tweed,Northumberland,was a soldier who served throughout the Wars of Scottish Independence. His experiences were recorded by his son Thomas Grey in his chronicles,and provide a rare picture of the day to day realities of the Wars. His career,blemished by his suicidal charge at the Battle of Bannockburn,a contributing factor to the devastating English defeat,is perhaps best known for his role in the tale of Sir William Marmion the chivalric knight of Norham Castle.
Sir Roger la Zouch was the instigator of the murder of Roger de Beler and also MP for Leicestershire in 1324,1331 and 1337 and Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire during the 1330s.
Sir John Folville was an member of parliament (MP) for Rutland and Leicestershire and father of Eustace Folville,the leader of the Folville Gang.
Sir William Trussell was an English politician and leading rebel in Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer,1st Earl of March's rebellion against Edward II. William acted as Speaker of the House of Commons and renounced the allegiance of England to Edward II,forcing his abdication,and became King Edward III's Secretary.
William la Zouche,1st Baron Zouche (1276/86–1352) lord of the manor of Harringworth in Northamptonshire,was an English baron and soldier who fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence. He is referred to in history as "of Harringworth" to distinguish him from his first cousin Alan la Zouche,1st Baron la Zouche (1267–1314) of Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire.
Bennet Sherard of Whissendine JP DL was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Rutland.
