Rose de Burford

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Rose de Burford
Died1329 [1]
Other namesRoesia de Boreford
Known forEnglish merchant and business woman.

Rose de Burford (also Roesia, de Boreford; died 1329) was a 14th-century merchant and business woman in the City of London, England. [2]

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Born Rose Romeyn, she was the daughter of Juliana Hautyn and Thomas Romayn (d 1312), [1] a wealthy London wool and spice merchant and alderman of the City of London. She married her father's business partner, John of Burford who was also an alderman. [1] She was actively engaged in her husband's business. [2] Their chief client was the state Wardrobe, an office that supervised expenses in the king's household.[ citation needed ] When John died around 1322, Rose assumed full management of the business and also acquired extensive properties. [2] She is known to have owned tenements in London and country estates in Surrey, Kent and Sussex. [1] [3] Her own country residence was at Cherletone in Kent. [3] She had a son, James, and daughter Katherine. [3] [4]

She ran an embroidery business and at the direction of Edward II executed a cope of "opus anglicum" decorated in coral for which she received 100 marks. At the request of Isabella of France, Queen of England this vestment was sent to the Pope as a gift. [1] [5] [6]

She paid for the erection of a chapel on the south side of the church of St Thomas the Apostle in Cullum Street in the City of London. [3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Echols, An annotated index of medieval women
  2. 1 2 3 McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston (2005). Working women in English society, 1300-1620. Cambridge University Press. p. 191. ISBN   0-521-84616-1.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Sharpe, R. R. (1329). "Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London". Transcript of Roesia de Boreford Will dated 1329. British History On Line. pp. see - Borford (Roesia de). Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  4. ↑ Thrupp - The merchant class of medieval London
  5. ↑ Bateson, Mary (1906). Mediaeval England 1066–1350. The Story of the Nations. Fisher Unwin. pp. 326 Baronial Households [1250–1350].
  6. ↑ Clark, Alice (1968). Working life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. Routledge. p. 140. ISBN   0-7146-1291-X.

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