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Sir Stephen de Segrave

Male Abt 1185 - 1241  (~ 56 years)


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  • Name Sir Stephen de Segrave  [1, 2, 3
    Born Abt 1185  Seagrave, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1208 
    Attorney for the Prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem 
    Occupation 1220 
    One of those advising the King to come to terms with Berengaria, widow of Richard I 
    Occupation 1229 
    Chief Justice 
    Occupation 1230 
    Principal advisor to the King 
    Occupation 28 Apr 1230 
    Entrusted the government when Hubert de Burgh travelled to France with Henry III 
    Occupation 8 Aug 1232 
    Hubert de Burgh was ordered to hand over Dover and the Tower of London to the new justiciar Stephen de Segrave 
    Occupation 1233 
    Had a falling out with the king but was reconciled upon payment of a heavy fine 
    Occupation 1239 
    Recalled to the Council, becoming the king's Chief Advisor (despite his advanced age) 
    Property Son of Gilbert, Lord of Seagrave in Leicestershire 
    Died 9 Nov 1241  Barton, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Leicester Abbey, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17271  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Family Rohese Le Despenser,   b. Abt 1192,   d. Bef 2 Mar 1289, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 97 years) 
    Married Abt 1204 
    Children 
     1. Sir Gilbert de Segrave,   b. Abt 1208,   d. 1254, Pons, Saintes, diocèse de Nantes, Saintonge, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 46 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F9242  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume XI, pp. 597-601.

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 475-476.

    3. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 16B-24 & 25.