Almaric St Amand, 2nd Baron St Amand

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Depiction on the burial bream by Hugh Hastings in the Church of Elsing in Norfolk

Almaric St Amand, 2nd Baron St Amand (according to another count also 3rd Baron St Amand ; also Amory or Amaury St Amand or St. Amand ) (* 1314 - 11 September 1381 ) was an English nobleman, military man and civil servant.

origin

Almaric St Amand was a son of John St Amand, 1st Baron St Amand and his wife Margaret , daughter of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester . After the death of his father in 1330 he became his heir, but only after he had come of age was he able to pay homage to the king on March 16, 1335 for his inheritance, which was then given to him. Most of his possessions were in southern England, including the Gormanston estate north of Dublin in Ireland , which his great-great-grandfather Amaury de St Amand had acquired.

Service as a local civil servant and in the military

Because of his Irish possessions, which St Amand did not administer directly, he had already been called in 1332, together with other English nobles who also had possessions in Ireland, to be King Edward III. to assist in a campaign to Ireland. However, this campaign did not take place. From 1338 on, St Amand took over numerous offices as a local landowner, especially in Berkshire and Oxfordshire . Among other things, he was responsible for the setting up of drafts and served as justice of the peace . For this he served as a military. As early as 1335 he took part in William Montagu's campaign to Scotland. Before 1337 he was promoted to a Knight Bachelor , and in that year he accompanied Montagu, who had meanwhile been raised to Earl of Salisbury , to negotiations in northern France and the Netherlands. From 1346 to 1347 St Amand took part in the campaign of Edward III. to northern France, participated in the battle of Crécy and the siege of Calais . In 1351 he was made Knight Banneret , and the king granted him an annual pension of 200 marks for his services . In 1355 and 1357 St Amand took part in the unsuccessful campaigns of Sir Robert Herle to Scotland.

Justiciar of Ireland

After the death of Thomas Rokeby , St Amand was appointed the new Justiciar of Ireland on July 14, 1357 . He took office in November 1357. At that time, the English settlers in Leinster and other parts of the island were increasingly harassed by raids by the local Irish Gaelic population. St Amand brought 40 men-at-arms and 100 archers with him to Ireland, with whom he tried to push back the Irish by advances and constant trains to Leinster and Munster . To do this, he negotiated with the Gaelic chiefs. However, since he needed most of the Irish Treasury's lower income to pay his soldiers, he had little means to recruit more soldiers locally. Therefore he tried to persuade the representatives of the English settlers to approve further taxes. In January 1359 he headed an Irish parliament in Kilkenny , which sent the English king news of the threatening situation in Ireland. In March 1359 he was replaced as justiciar and returned to England. The petitions to the king were not without consequences, because the English government now recognized the seriousness of the situation in Ireland and finally decided in 1361 that the English settlers should receive direct support from the government.

Next life

In October 1359 St Amand started a new campaign in France. After the conclusion of the Peace of Brétigny , he returned to England in 1360. In 1361 and 1362 he was asked to be ready to accompany the king's son Lionel of Antwerp , who was to take over the administration of Ireland as King's Lieutenant . As St Amand was increasingly pressed to make a further contribution to the defense of his Irish possessions, he sold these properties in 1363 to Sir Robert Preston , a judge from Dublin. At the same time he bought the mortgaged estate of Grendon in Buckinghamshire from a London citizen for £ 400 . When war broke out with France again in 1369, he served in command of Southampton . Due to his age, he increasingly withdrew to his possessions. He continued to serve as justice of the peace and was regularly invited to the English parliaments from 1371 , which is why he is considered Baron St. Amand . In 1373 he became administrator of Rockingham Castle .

Descendants and inheritance

As a teenager, St Amand was married to Joan Handlo , a daughter of Sir John Handlo , before 1330 . With her he had several children, including his heir Almaric St Amand, 3rd Baron St Amand (around 1341-1402).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nigel Saul: Fourteenth century England, I. Boydell, Woodbridge 2000, ISBN 0-85115-776-9 , p. 168
  2. ^ A b Royal Berkshire History: Almaric St. Amand Junior (1314-1381). Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven: Ireland in the 1350s: Sir Thomas de Rokeby and his successors . In: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland , 97 (1967), p. 54.
  4. ^ Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven: Ireland in the 1350s: Sir Thomas de Rokeby and his successors . In: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland , 97 (1967), p. 56.
  5. Amauri de St. Amand, 3rd Lord St. Amand on thepeerage.com , accessed April 4, 2018.
predecessor Office successor
John St Amand Baron St. Amand
1335-1381
Almaric St Amand