John de Lovetot
Sir John de Lovetot (* before 1236, † before November 5, 1294 ) was an English civil servant and judge.
Origin and advancement to royal judge
John de Lovetot was a younger son of Richard de Lovetot and his wife Christine . His father owned a third of the rule Southoe in Huntingdonshire , but died in 1235. Presumably served Lovetot 1258-1260 or 1261 as a royal warden of the home fallen Honor of Peverel in Nottinghamshire . During the Second Barons' War , from 1263 to 1264, he was one of the four men who claimed the administration of Yorkshire in competition with the Royal Sheriff . At the end of the 1260s he served as Under-Sheriff of Norfolk , before he was first administrator of the Cathedral Priory of Norwich and then in the service of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford in the early 1270s . Before 1269 he had been knighted. In 1270 he was also in the service of Robert de Tibetot , for whom he remained in England as a representative when he took part in Prince Edward's crusade . It is possible that Lovetot came into contact with Prince Edward , who became King of England in 1272, through Tibetot . Lovetot was in the king's service by 1274 at the latest, when he was appointed administrator of the vacant Diocese of Durham .
During the Judgment Period of Easter 1275, Lovetot served as a judge on the Common of Common Pleas . As a result, he served until 1289 regularly as a judge or as Assize -Richter. To this end, the king sent him at least eight times as an envoy to France or as an official to the French county of Ponthieu , which belonged to the English kings Eleanor of Provence , so that he could not have participated or only partially participated in several judicial periods. He was also in the service of Queen Eleanor.
Deposition and final years
After the king's return from a stay of several years in his south-west French possessions, a commission of inquiry was set up in 1289 to uncover maladministration in the judiciary and administration of England during the king's absence. Lovetot was one of the five judges of the Court of Common Pleas who were dismissed in early 1290. Like three other judges, he was accused of failing to prevent the manipulation of a judgment by Chief Justice Thomas Weyland . Lovetot was imprisoned in the Tower of London and, after his release, paid his £ 1,000 fine in several installments between June 1290 and October 1293. In 1293 he was again imprisoned in the Tower, presumably because he had fallen out of favor with Queen Eleanor . Again he was sentenced to pay a fine, this time 1000 marks . He died shortly before November 5, 1294.
Marriages, offspring and aftermath
Lovetot was married twice. Before 1268 he had married Margaret , a daughter of Robert d'Eyville and his wife Denise . She died in the late 1280s. In his second marriage, Lovetot married Joan in 1290 or 1291 , daughter of William of Standon and widow of Bartholomew de Briaunzon . Probably from his first marriage, Lovetot had at least four sons and three daughters. His heir became his eldest son of the same name, John de Lovetot . This accused in 1301, possibly at the instigation of Archbishop Winchelsey before Parliament the bishop and Treasurer Walter Langton to have an affair with Lovetots second wife Joan. Langton is said to have murdered Lovetot's father together with Joan. Joan died in August 1302, and Langton's trial dragged on until 1303. The younger Lovetot could not substantiate the allegations against Langton. Langton was eventually pardoned by the king, while Lovetot was now accused of murder and died in prison.
Web links
- Lovetot, Sir John de (b. In or before 1236, d. 1294). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Brand: The making of the common law . Hambledon, London 1992. ISBN 1-85285-070-1 , p. 122
- ^ Paul Brand: The making of the common law. Hambledon, London 1992. ISBN 1-85285-070-1 , p. 153
- ^ Roy Martin Haines: Langton, Walter (d. 1321). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Lovetot, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Lovetot, Sir John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English judge and civil servant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1236 |
| DATE OF DEATH | before November 5, 1294 |