Philip of Kyme (nobleman, before 1215)

Philip of Kyme (* before 1215; † 1242 ) was an English nobleman.

Philip of Kyme came from the Kyme family , a noble family from Lincolnshire . He was the eldest son of Simon of Kyme and his wife Rohese fitz Robert . Like his father, Philip sided with the rebellious barons against King John Ohneland during the First Barons' War . However, he came into royal captivity with the capture of Rochester Castle in the autumn of 1215. His father could not raise the required high ransom, so that he was only released after the end of the war in 1217. When his father died in 1220, he left Philip mortgaged estates and considerable debts. In order to pay off the most pressing debts, Philip first had to mortgage additional properties. From 1227 to 1228 he served as royal judge, but in view of his debts he had to pledge the goods of South Elkington and Cawthorpe in Lincolnshire to Hugh of Wells , Bishop of Lincoln for ten years for 200 marks . In 1230 or 1231 he had to accept that he had to pay 200 marks a year to the king and 100 marks to Jewish moneylenders to pay off his debts. At that time he owed £ 700 to the Royal Treasury alone.

Philip had two sons and a daughter:

• Simon of Kyme († 1248) ∞ Maud de Ferrers († 1298 or 1299)
• William of Kyme († 1259)
• Sybil ∞ Walter de Ver

His heir was his eldest death, Simon, after his early death his younger son William of Kyme.

Web links

• Paul Dalton: Philip of Kyme [ii] (d. 1242). 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